A Reuse Renaissance Continues to Reshape Mexico City
Two projects in the Mexican capital show how adaptive reuse can itself adapt to social, economic, and spatial circumstances.
Two projects in the Mexican capital show how adaptive reuse can itself adapt to social, economic, and spatial circumstances.
Designed by Young & Ayata with Michan Architecture, the cast concrete building is the product of reduction.
The capital's robust design community is responding to the health crisis with creative action.
And the local talents behind them.
The architecture studio LANZA Atelier brought its characteristic sparseness and clarity of concept to the renovation job.
Designed by FGP Atelier and Taller ADG, the new Diablos Rojos stadium is helping revive the city’s 1968 Olympic park.
To create the brass form of Parábola, the studio partnered with Pablo Reyes, a Oaxacan metalworker based in Mexico City.
Firm founders Carlos Facio and José G. Amozurrutia's commitment to environmental and social responsibility has grounded the studio as it expands.
The Mexico City–based duo Ana Paula Ruiz Galindo and Mecky Reuss (who work under the moniker Pedro y Juana) were recently selected for this year’s MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program.
Organized by itinerant gallery guadalajara90210, the show Pabellón de las Escaleras (Stairs Pavilion) recently opened for art and design fair Zona Maco.
From furniture collections and objets d’art to open studios and other unclassifiable collaborations, Metropolis gives you the lowdown on all things design at Zona Maco.
Candida Höfer – In Mexico, on view at Sean Kelly Gallery in New York City through March 16, continues the artist’s decades-long investigation of architecture’s psychological effects.
Mathias Goeritz: Modernist Art and Architecture in Cold War Mexico contextualizes Goeritz’s art within the cultural and political transformations of Latin America.
As part of our 2018 Design Cities issue, Metropolis looked at projects, firms, and places that are driving global design culture today.
Designed by Mexican architects Ezequiel Farca and Cristina Grappin, the Magnolia House accommodates—and anticipates—changing family lifestyles.
A small yet ambitious exhibition at Archivo presents a proposal to relocate the murals of a Mexico City building to the state’s contested airport project.
These Mexican designers, who unveiled new collections at Zona Maco last week, play with tradition to make cutting edge, contemporary works.
At more than 50 stories, the Bora Residential Tower in Mexico City's Santa Fe neighborhood will offer great views and programmatic flexibility.
La Ciudad Está Allá Afuera, an ongoing show at the Tlatelolco University Cultural Center, uses art and architecture as a lens through which to explore the Mexican capital’s many realities.
This developer is bringing new life to Mexico City’s historic neighborhoods—but keeping focus on equitable, sustainable growth.