Tag: Central America

Grafton Architects

Six decades later Grafton Architects completed the first phase of a remarkable structure in Lima, the sprawling capital of Peru. Letter from America

# Grafton Architects # University (228) # Perù

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FR-EE Mexico City International Airport and Teotihuacan

Fernando Romero

Less than an hour north of Mexico City, the city of Teotihuacán has become synonymous with pre-Colombian Mesoamerican spiritual and cosmologically orient

# Mexico (154) # Fernando Romero

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Datri & Dasa House

Mavarq

The requirements:Dasa house required continuous open spaces, a complete physical and visual communication with exterior areas, a full room with independent acce

# Mexico (154) # Residence (1657) # Mavarq

#Architecture of the month

Casa Flotanta

Benjamin Garcia Saxe Architecture

The Gooden-Nahome family wanted to create a home on the Pacific Coast of Costa Rica and they found an incredible site overlooking the ocean. The biggest challen

# Residence (1657) # Benjamin Garcia Saxe Architecture # Costa Rica

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Los Tecorrales House

Legorreta + Legorreta

The whole programme of Casa Los Tecorrales is posited on architecture as an integral part of its natural context. The large grounds include sweeping lawns, arbo

# Mexico (154) # Residence (1657) # Legorreta + Legorreta

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Space for innovation - Metalsa Research and Technology Building

Brooks+Scarpa

The clients fabricate metal parts for major automotive manufacturers around the world. Their site is a massive industrial park in a sparsely populated area near

# Mexico (154) # Productive complex (197) # Brooks+Scarpa (12)

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School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, Yale University

Hopkins Architects

When Hopkins Architects was interviewed about designing the new building for Yale’s School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, project director Mike

# Hopkins Architects # Connecticut, USA

#Wood in Architecture

Guadalajara Mapping

An inclusive, mineral cityLocated in the central eastern part of the State of Jalisco, Mexico, Guadalajara is the world’s metropolis subject of this editi

# Mexico (154)

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A City of Courtyards

“Rooms open to the sky.” This is how Luis Barragán, the Pritzker-prize winning Mexican architect who had such an enduring influence on the ar

# Mexico (154)

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Casa Ventura

Tatiana Bilbao

To suggest that a building can be like a tree is perhaps to risk a wildly organic metaphor. Organic architecture, with its roots in the structural designs of Fr

# Mexico (154) # Residence (1657) # Tatiana Bilbao

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House in Monterrey

Tadao Ando Architect & Associates

Tadao Ando first came to international attention in the 1970s with houses inserted into the dense fabric of busy Japanese cities, in particular the sprawling Os

# Mexico (154) # Residence (1657) # Tadao Ando Architect & Associates

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Cervantes Theatre

Ensamble Studio

In Mexico City, the dovela (the Spanish for an arch keystone) is synonymous with the famous Aztec basalt Sun or Calendar Stone found near the city’s centr

# Ensamble Studio # Mexico (154) # Theater - Auditorium (178)

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