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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...
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,...
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.
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...
Rojkind Arquitectos, the Mexican studio known for its propensity for innovation, has designed a compact building dedicated to wine production and research. Pictograma Winery combines a rigorous and complex geometry with the use of raw materials and organically integrates the structure into its...
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.
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...
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
A deep religious vocation and a robbery are the circumstances that gave rise to the fundamental decisions of this architectural project.
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.
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.
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.
The Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP) has announced that the Colosio Embankment Dam designed by by Loreta Castro Reguera and José Pablo Ambrosi of Taller Capital is winner of the 2022 MCHAP.emerge award.
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.
The New Mexico School for the Arts in Sante Fe occupies no less than ten buildings that served as a lumber mill, bookstore, and mini-mall, among other uses. A variety of facades, outdoor spaces, and exposed structural systems remind students of the site's history. Lake|Flato Architects...
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...
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...
A jury has selected the Terra Reforma office building in Mexico City, designed by architect L. Benjamín Romano of LBR&A, as the winner of the International Highrise Award 2018.
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.
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.
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,...
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."
The Casa TEC 205 is located very close to the Chipinque ecological park in Monterrey. This house is the first prize in a raffle organized every year by the Technological University of Monterrey to raise funds for its students.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This project is part of the urban fabric of the Colonia Roma Norte in Mexico City.
In the second part of our three-part look at the major components of the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale, here are a dozen of our favorite National Pavilions from the 65 found in the Giardini, the Arsenale, and beyond.
With seven editions behind them and a Golden Lion won in 2006, Mexico presents 31 proposals at the 15th Venice Biennale.
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.
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...
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...
The LMB bungalow is the first of a possible series of bungalows intended to be built on a large site in Tepoztlán - a small town on the outskirts of Mexico City.
The program of this rental property is conformed by offices on its first two levels and a residential loft on its upper floor.
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.