Taking advantage of the development of high buildings in the south of Mexico City, IDEA Asociados joins this growing activity designing a residential complex where the most important value is quality of life. The project was divided into two towers with a total of 144 apartments; the first tower has 26 levels and the second 23, both surrounded by 3,000 sq m of green areas.
ESKEMA arquitectos made an interior design project for this offices answering to the brand´s specific challenges. The program was organized to have all services and private areas in the same space favoring the open space location towards the façade so everybody enjoys the view and the natural light.
The materials and setting dictate the different uses and areas of the office, the polished concrete floor was used for circulations and the reception. For the remaining areas solid colors carpet was used playing with dynamic patterns that added motion. In the meeting rooms red was selected as the main color combined with grays to enhance creativity, vitality and drive. In the working area shades of blue were used aiming for a more trustworthy and reassuring space.
CD8 is a building located in the historical center of Mexico City, right in the heart of its traditional Chinatown. Its characteristics presented a great opportunity for an architectural revitalization project to provide it with a new productive life.
This architecture revitalization project by Boue Arquitectos is located in the heart of Mexico City´s historic center, right on San Ildefonso Street. It is a four-level building that has been intervened with the purpose of reactivating its ground floor, rehabilitating exhaustively its interiors, rescuing its façade and integrating —with its use and the floating population that it will attract— new dynamics to its immediate context, which is characterized by its high commercial and tourist activity, an extraordinary cultural offer and an unprecedented historical relevance.
In this project Estudio MMX takes a chance using the street as the key element to make the city. The building fosters, both physical and visually, the connection between the interior and exterior public space testing the possibility of a continuous area that inserts itself inside the apartment block.
The design accomplished that the space and free common areas were added and continuous among themselves, being these the principles that defined the volumes of the building. As a result of this the majority of the interior spaces have contact with the exterior and the street avoiding the enclosed interior apartments.
In the 40s, at Colonia Condesa in Mexico City, the first Roxy ice cream parlor was born. The shop style was inspired in the architecture of the emblematic Roxy cinema theater and the Art Deco of that time. The desire of the family —owner of the business— was to bring back the soda-fountain style that, either for longing or curiosity, will spark some interest to visit it.
The biggest challenge was to reinvent the Historical Center branch, without losing the spirit of the original ice cream parlor to transform it with a contemporary ambiance. Being a family business, the work was done teaming up with its members and answering to their desires, managing to hold Roxy´s defining essence in an adventurous way.
This corporate office is in one of the most avant-garde buildings located at the west of Mexico City, the challenge for Eskema Arquitectos was the client´s requirement an interior design project that strongly expressed the prestige of the brand and at the same time a certain air of informality. Another important topic was making the design of these offices different from the rest the firm has around the world and also to show that this are located in Mexico.
A home that includes all its inhabitants is the project that ARCO Arquitectura Contemporanea´s team did for this project. The basic rules of universal design answered all the needs for a person that uses a wheel chair creating the ideal ambiance where everyone can fully enjoy the whole space.
To make sure all the movement inside the apartment is simple all the areas are wide. The doors are large and no steps were used in any room. Special attention was paid to the lighting design in different levels and also with the furniture design making sure it included all the necessary to solve with a harmonious and pleasant image.
Capulin 59 is a boutique residential building located in one of the best areas in Colonia del Valle, Mexico City. The 240 sqm land where the property was built, located in front of a small park, has a rectangular shape with 10 meters street front.
The building comprises 5 apartment units, 3 facing the exterior and 2 interior townhouses with private terraces.
Remodeling and expansion of an apartment building designed by the Mexican architect Luis Barragan and German architect Max Cetto. The building which has four apartments, is conceptualized as a reinterpretation of some of Barragan’s original details of his mature stage. The project focuses on details such as the gates, as segments of the space sequence, the quartering, as classifying elements and leaves details for reinterpretation, while rescuing every original element found in site and extending.
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