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Mexico City
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Meet the Design Practices Shaking Things Up in Mexico City
The city-wide event Design Week Mexico debuts up-and-coming designers shifting the creative hub’s design scene.
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Dining in a Garden 56 Stories Above Mexico City
Sordo Madaleno’s design for the restaurant Ling Ling combines traditional Mexican architecture with rich biophilic touches.
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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.
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Recessed Apertures and Atypical Heft Distinguish a Mexico City Apartment House
Designed by Young & Ayata with Michan Architecture, the cast concrete building is the product of reduction.
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In Mexico City, Designers Join Forces to Help the Underprivileged during the COVID-19 Pandemic
The capital's robust design community is responding to the health crisis with creative action.
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3 Leading North American Design Stores Highlight Their Favorite Products
And the local talents behind them.
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An Escher-Like Staircase Joins Two Old Homes on the Outskirts of Mexico City
The architecture studio LANZA Atelier brought its characteristic sparseness and clarity of concept to the renovation job.
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A New Home for Baseball in Mexico City
Designed by FGP Atelier and Taller ADG, the new Diablos Rojos stadium is helping revive the city’s 1968 Olympic park.
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Esrawe Studio Designs Félix Candela–Inspired Lights
To create the brass form of Parábola, the studio partnered with Pablo Reyes, a Oaxacan metalworker based in Mexico City.
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Taller TO Explores Movement in Architecture on Mexico City’s Unsteady Ground
Firm founders Carlos Facio and José G. Amozurrutia's commitment to environmental and social responsibility has grounded the studio as it expands.
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Mexico City’s LIGA Features Exhibition by Pedro y Juana
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.
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Frida Escobedo, Rozana Montiel, LANZA Atelier, and Others Design Artistic Interventions in an Under-Construction Mexico City Building
Organized by itinerant gallery guadalajara90210, the show Pabellón de las Escaleras (Stairs Pavilion) recently opened for art and design fair Zona Maco.
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10 of Our Favorite Designs, Exhibitions, and Hot Spots from Mexico City’s 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.
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Photographer Candida Höfer Captures Grand Mexican Architecture in New Exhibition
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.
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New Book Explores the Mexican Artist-Designer Whose Medium Was Public Space
Mathias Goeritz: Modernist Art and Architecture in Cold War Mexico contextualizes Goeritz’s art within the cultural and political transformations of Latin America.
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How Mexico’s 2017 Earthquake Galvanized Its Architecture Community
As part of our 2018 Design Cities issue, Metropolis looked at projects, firms, and places that are driving global design culture today.
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A ’90s-Era Mexico City Residence is Reimagined as a Stunning Retreat
Designed by Mexican architects Ezequiel Farca and Cristina Grappin, the Magnolia House accommodates—and anticipates—changing family lifestyles.
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How a Small Mexico City Exhibition Fueled a Debate About Preservation and Power
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.
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Profiles
10 Mexican Designers You Should Know from Mexico’s Largest Art and Design Fair
These Mexican designers, who unveiled new collections at Zona Maco last week, play with tradition to make cutting edge, contemporary works.
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Zaha Hadid Architects Breaks Ground on Mexico City’s Tallest Residential Tower
At more than 50 stories, the Bora Residential Tower in Mexico City's Santa Fe neighborhood will offer great views and programmatic flexibility.