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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Cultural center, Lukasz Wawrzenczyk, Mexico, Perforated
The Cultural Center of Chapultepec is designed to merge the concepts of aesthetics and functionality. It is to become the icon of the city through its subtle yet dynamic form and overall composition. The building is thoughtfully designed as a singular form with material simplicity. It seeks to create a city focal point that adapts [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Mexico, Sobrado + Ugalde ARCHITECTS
Sobrado + Ugalde ARCHITECTS has designed PASEO in Mexico City. The project was finished in January 2013. The project has 730 M2 of construction and 1200 M2 of land, this was a massive renovation that changes the slope of the house completely and create more space in the private areas. Sobrado + Ugalde ARCHITECTS maintain the fire place [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Brick, Concrete, Mexico, Swimming pool
Mexico-based architectural practice T38 studio has completed a house in México, Tijuana, Baja California. + Design statatement On a sloping site with a privileged view of the city, we designed a house for a young family. The main design criteria was that every interior space would have a relation with exterior space. To accomplish that, [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Landscape architecture, Mexico, Sobrado + Ugalde ARCHITECTS, Stone
North of Mexico City, on uneven ground that only offers a few meters wide and 16 meters from the curb drop to the lowest point of the land is the home design Canterbury looking to take advantage of terrain. Following the landform we opted for a design that surprised from its entry because only from [...]
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Category: Architecture, Residential, Selected Tags: Concrete, Landscape architecture, Mexico, Swimming pool
Located in Valle de Bravo lake in Mexico, the project is located on a steep slope, and with boundaries irregular in its geometry. Bordered by a brook of clear water and by the lake itself, at one very narrow end there is a bridge that provides the only access to the site; the remaining sides [...]
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Category: Installation Tags: Installation, Mexico, Pavilion
The RIA rural Project (Red de Innovación y Aprendizaje) is conceived as a model that could be adapted and reproduced throughout Mexico. Three walls positioned within the landscape organize the program. The first wall contains the administrative program, the second wall contains the educational programs, and the third wall contemplates contains the services and a [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Residential Tags: AS/D, Mexico, Perforated
Mexican architectural firm AS/D designed the Casa Alta located on a steep slope within a 1,500 square meter plot with magnificent views to the valley, the main structure of this weekend house consists of a 6 m by 6m module in three levels with just 108 square meters and a roof deck overlooking the valley. [...]
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Category: Architecture, Interior, Office Tags: Mexico
Placed on the back part of a terrain, a volume is partially buried leaving the visual depth of the existing backyard free, becoming an extension of it. This volume accommodates two working areas. A service module that contains a bathroom, a storage room and a cleaning area divides them. A manual skylight ventilates the module. [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Competition, Mexico
The Architects’ Association of the State of Veracruz launched an open architectural design competition for its headquarters to be located in the city of Cordoba. The mission of the Architect’s Association in Mexico is to promote the architectural profession developed within the highest standards of legal, moral, and responsible practice while promoting professional development, public [...]
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Category: Architecture, Education, Office Tags: Folding architecture, Lattice screen, Mexico, Shine Architecture, Workplace
SHINE Architcture recently has created “Habitat ITESM Leon”, this is an art/design studio workshop for students within Tec de Monterrey’s, Campus in Leon, Mexico. + Project statement This retrofit project intends to revitalize a underutilized space, into a 1180m2 art/design studio workshop for students within Tec de Monterrey’s, Campus in Leon, Mexico. The intervetion in the [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Mexico, R-ZERO Arquitectos
In the southern part of Mexico City, on an irregular plot of land which offers just a few meters of front façade, this one-family residence solves the lack of contact with its environment by producing its own context, unfolding itself around a self-created landscape. A decreasing succession of scale grants character to the interior space, [...]
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Category: Architecture, Office Tags: JSª, Lattice screen, Mexico, White
Designed by Mexican architectural office JSª, the project we developed for Liverpool Angelopolis in Puebla focuses on the envelope, and favors the container over the content. It is a department store that does not require a continuous relation to the outside. We considered it was important to generate at least one area of contact from [...]
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