To say of the specialists of the moment, in this place it was able to create "with hard and cold materials like steel, glass and marble, combined with some elements of wood, an organic set full of life and exquisite flavor". Like the rum that gave fame and success to the company, a fortunate combination of elements produced one of the best sets of modern...
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The Maya train project, one of the main bets on tourism for the next six-year term, would move tourists from the Riviera Maya to Calakmul, Campeche, and aims to create new resorts in this area of the country. In 1873, when the first train from Mexico to the port of Veracruz was run, a long dream was fulfilled whose foundation was the material progress...
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The House of Daniel Cosío Villegas is at the same time architectural episode and key piece of twentieth century history. A simple dwelling made of brick became at the time, on the stage of various meetings that without planning, were important for both the intellectual and his family and friends. Here we share a piece of this home-flavored story. Few people know of...
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With an exhibition of sculptures by 20 offices of architects from Guadalajara, Monterrey, Mérida and Mexico City, commemorates the thirtieth anniversary of Luis Barragán tragic, key figure of the Mexican architecture of the twentieth century. Luis Barragán died on November 22, 1988 in his home in Tacubaya, Mexico City. Since then, its architectural legacy has been appreciated by new generations, the image of its...
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The Villa-Lobos Park Library (BVL) is a particular place. In addition to offering books for loans and environments to study, like any library, the BLV is also a different experience of reading, learning and fun. Inaugurated in 2015, it was built on a ground that served as a large landfill of open-pit garbage, and now aspires to become the best in the world next to...
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As Sigfried Giedion says in the book space, Time and architecture, there is a big problem in our contemporary culture: the widespread disregard for the immediate past makes buildings of great importance to be demolished without regard. There is no particular interest in what is being destroyed because there is no valuation of the cultural products closest to us, unfortunately, the case of the Chrysler...
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In analyzing the history of Mexico City and its relationship with commercial activity, it can be seen that the challenges and commercial opportunities were forming the current city and continue to determine part of its constructive evolution. However, at present it seems that this dynamic has gotten out of control, because it seems that the public and family spaces have been replaced by public places...
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As part of the project to promote great virtues of Japanese culture to other countries, the Japan House São Paulo opened its doors in Brazil with the support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. This cultural enclosure is the first of its kind in the world and was designed by the architect Kengo Kuma. To Japan and Brazil unite a common history that goes...
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An emblematic, iconic and innovative building of the Seventies. It was at the time the materialization of the ideals of a company: efficiency, functionality and effectiveness. Now, more than 30 years later, his story continues along with his architects ' dream of someday seeing the original project complete. The economic policies of the 1970s opened the way in the country to a considerable increase...
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Opuntia Ficus-indica, or Common nopal, is a species native to Mesoamerica whose multiple applications and properties have been used in architecture since the pre-Hispanic era. Recently, several working groups in our country are investigating other possible promising uses for nopal in the construction industry. The use of natural materials in the construction is a millenarian inheritance, and its development in Mexico originates in the...
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