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John Hill | 12.05.2025

Found

The Kingdom of Bahrain won the Golden Lion at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale, and special mentions were given to the Holy See and Great Britain—what about the other...


Michan Architecture | 14.04.2025

Building of the Week

With its sculpted balconies in concrete, people walking by the apartment building at the southeast corner of Campeche and Culiacan in Mexico City's Condesa neighborhood would be forgiven for assuming it is new construction. In fact, it is an adaptive reuse of a run-down building from 1953,...


John Hill | 03.04.2025

Film

Architectural Digest visits Casa Orgánica, the home of artist and architect Javier Senosiain that he built into the earth overlooking Mexico City. The 12-minute film with commentary from Senosiain beautifully captures the colorful, cave-like spaces of a one-of-a-kind creation.


HEMAA | 27.01.2025

Building of the Week

A seemingly unbuildable slice of land in Mexico City's Nuevo Polanco colonia, not far from Museo Soumaya and other cultural offerings, is now home to a skinny 13-story office building. Taking its name from the railroad tracks that created its fragmented site, Ferrocarril de Cuernavaca...


John Hill | 08.10.2024

Headlines

Under the thematic focus “Architectures with,” the 2024 Obel Award has been awarded to Colectivo C733, a group comprised of multiple architecture studios and dozens of architects who came together to realize 36 projects across Mexico in the span of just 36 months. 


John Hill | 04.06.2024

Film

The fifth edition of Living Places - Simon Architecture Prize launched at the end of May at Simon Company's headquarters in Barcelona. The event was accompanied by a new short film, “El Luchador,” that features a professional wrestler inside Agustín Hernández's famous Taller de Arquitectura in...


René Ammann | 18.08.2023

Number

Number of outside windows an all-white stucco L-shaped single-level corner house in the town of Morelia, in Central Mexico, counts to make the clients feel secure: 0


Ulf Meyer | 04.07.2023

Headlines

The Centro de Investigación del Mar de Cortés (Sea of Cortez Research Center) opened in Mazatlán, Mexico, at the end of May. Located in Parque Central Mazatlán, the impressive building was designed by Tatiana Bilbao Estudio.


Taller | Mauricio Rocha | 25.03.2023

Works

The remodeling and expansion of the Anahuacalli Museum in Mexico City by Taller | Mauricio Rocha has been named the winner of the 2023 Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP), the biennial prize that recognizes a built work in the Americas that best embodies architectural excellence.


John Hill | 20.10.2022

Found

In Praise of Caves, now on display at The Noguchi Museum in New York City, presents projects by four Mexican artist–architects that explore "how humanity might reconnect with the essential happiness of living in concert with nature." Serpents, not just caves, are in abundance.


HW Studio | 18.10.2021

Works

The inspiration behind this project is derived from carefully listening to the subtle murmurs and whispers of environments like this, as well as the client's search for protection and shelter.


Inca Hernández | 08.09.2020

Works

Mexico City is a historical setting with an enormous cultural and architectural heritage protected in its magical neighborhoods. Tacuba is one of them, located northwest to the downtown. This neighborhood has undergone social and urban transformations that have lasted to this day and where...


René Ammann | 10.02.2020

Number

Total cost, as of January, for the United States to build more than 450 miles of border wall at the U.S.-Mexico border by the end...


John Hill | 31.10.2018

Headlines

The $13 billion international airport designed by Foster + Partners for Mexico City is facing cancellation after a national referendum saw 70 percent of people at the polls vote "no" on the project now under construction.


Taller Héctor Barroso | 16.08.2018

Works

In a vast forest area in Valle de Bravo, Mexico, Taller Héctor Barroso has built five weekend houses, which adapt to the site’s topography. They are surrounded by pine trees that echo the sound of the wind.


Specht Architects | 21.05.2018

Building of the Week

The name of this house in Santa Fe, New Mexico, is an apt one, referring to the 125-foot-long skylight that casts shadows upon the adjacent board-formed concrete wall. The wall also serves to divide the parts of the house in plan: living spaces, bedrooms and porch on the skylight side; kitchen,...


John Hill | 24.04.2018

Film

NOWNESS presents a video directed by Andres Arochi in which Luis Barragan's house and studio in Mexico City "hosts a body-bending dance troupe who twist and move through the geometric building’s colorful spaces and rooms."


ARCHETONIC | 03.04.2018

Works

As architects, ARCHETONIC are inspired to make the most of the pre-existing infrastructure of Mexico city. This led them to design U-125, which recycles a house located in Lomas de Chapultepec and was originally built in the 1950s.


Moneo Brock | 24.11.2017

Works

The church “El Señor de la Misericordia” is located in the center of a new town-like urban development in Monterrey, Mexico, surrounded by an impressive mountain landscape.


Dellekamp Arquitectos | 22.02.2017

Works

House of Switzerland Pavilion emerges with the celebration of the seventy years of diplomatic relations between Switzerland and Mexico. It is located in "El Bosque de Chapultepec" landmark, the heart of Mexico City and America's oldest city park.


Mayer Hasbani | 31.10.2016

Works

A complex of 30 levels of mixed uses that has become the leading project in sustainability and comfort in the most important area of development in Puebla, Mexico.


Arqmov Workshop | 24.10.2016

Works

This project is part of the urban fabric of the Colonia Roma Norte in Mexico City.


Silvia Pujalte Toledo | 01.06.2016

Headlines

With seven editions behind them and a Golden Lion won in 2006, Mexico presents 31 proposals at the 15th Venice Biennale.


Dellekamp Arqutiectos | 26.04.2016

Works

Dellekamp Arquitectos was a finalist in the competition project for FCA (Feria de las Culturas Amigas), a competition organized by the Government of Mexico City.


LegoRogers | 10.02.2016

Works

The President of Mexico, Enrique Peña Nieto, has officially opened a new urban landmark on the skyline of Mexico City - BBVA Bancomer’s new headquarters today. The 50-storey office tower is the first completed building by LegoRogers, a collaboration between international architectural...


Arqmov Workshop | 19.01.2016

Works

Just BE is an apartment building located in Colonia Condesa, a neighborhood renowned for its social and commercial activity as well as its nightlife. The building sits on the same street as the Fondo de Cultura (Cultural Fund) and the old Bella Época cinema theatre, a 1940's...


Arquidromo | 18.03.2015

Works

The program of this rental property is conformed by offices on its first two levels and a residential loft on its upper floor.


John Hill | 10.03.2015

Film

The construction of French artist Georges Rousse's installation Faro & Faro for the Laboratorio de Arte Alameda in Mexico City is documented in a short film.


John Hill | 20.02.2015

Found

Guadalajara-based Estudio Macías Peredo has filled the small space of LIGA with 33 tons of raw volcanic stone for the 17th exhibition at the Mexico City architecture gallery, on display until May.


Rojkind Arquitectos | 11.11.2014

Works

Rojkind Arquitectos has received three honor awards from AIA Colorado for the Cineteca Nacional Siglo XXI, the Liverpool Insurgentes Department Store, and the Falcón 2 Headquarters.