The project, developed by Andrea López and Agustín Pereyra (AMASA Estudio), focused on a comprehensive improvement strategy implemented within the communal areas of four of INFONAVIT’s most representative housing complexes in Mexico City: Iztacalco, Santa Fe, Culhuacán El Rosario, and Ignacio Chávez.
Project name
UH INFONAVIT Iztacalco
Architecture firm
AMASA Estudio, Andrea López + Agustín Pereyra
Location
Mexico City, Mexico
Photography
Zaickz Moz, Andres Cedillo, Gerardo Reyes
Principal architect
Andrea López, Agustín Pereyra
Collaborators
Roxana León, David Rivera, Luis Flores, Gerardo Reyes, Yanahi Flaviel
Landscape
Maritza Hernandez
Civil engineer
Germán Muñoz
Structural engineer
Juan Felipe Heredia
Construction
Desarrolladora de Ideas y espacios, Alberto Cejudo
The chinampas, a pre-Hispanic farming system created by the Mexicas, represent a sustainable agricultural method that takes advantage of the natural fertility of the wetlands in the Valley of Mexico. Inspired by this ancestral technique, the Arca Tierra project seeks to preserve and reactivate the chinampas, promoting agroecological and local produ...
Location
Mexico City, Mexico
Photography
Alejandro Ramírez Orozco, Noel Higareda
Principal architect
Jachen Schleich, Sana Frini
Design team
Santiago Sitten, Eduardo Silva, Lucia Pells
Lighting
Locus, Estudio Nuumbra
Typology
Hospitality › Restaurant
Oaxaca 88, located in the Condesa neighborhood of Mexico City, is a mixed-use building that blends harmoniously into a vibrant urban setting. The project features 26 residential units and a ground floor commercial space, distributed across two interconnected volumes linked by a central vertical circulation core.
Architecture firm
CCA | Bernardo Quinzaños, IP STUDIO / Ivanka V Pichardo
Location
Mexico City, Mexico
Photography
Ricardo de la Concha
Principal architect
Bernardo Quinzaños
Design team
Victor Zúñiga, Keren Espinoza
Interior design
Ivanka V Pichardo
Construction
Abisal Construcciones
Material
Concrete, Steel, Glass
Typology
Residential › Apartments
This stone-set house stands as a testament to architectural design that boldly integrates the strength of concrete in a brutalist style, making full use of the terrain's topography and subdivision regulations.
Project name
Elevated Brutalism
Architecture firm
Arroyo Solís Agraz
Location
Mexico City, Mexico
Photography
Jaime Navarro
Principal architect
Alejandro Solís
Design team
Marisol Moreno
Interior design
Arroyo Solís Agraz
Structural engineer
Jesús García
Environmental & MEP
Rubén Bermudez
Landscape
Arroyo Solís Agraz
Lighting
Edgar Dos Santos
Supervision
Arroyo Solís Agraz
Visualization
Arroyo Solís Agraz
Construction
Grupo Fractal
Material
Concrete, Steel, Glass
Typology
Residential › House
The project is located in a low-density residential area in Mexico City, where zoning rules currently permit one house to be built per each 1,000 m2 of land.
Architecture firm
IUA Ignacio Urquiza Arquitectos
Photography
Rafael Gamo, Estudio Urquiza (Ignacio Urquiza), Arturo Arrieta
Principal architect
Ignacio Urquiza Seoane
Design team
Ana Laura Ochoa, Anet Carmona, Michela Lostia di Santa Sofia
Interior design
Vieyra Estudio, Lorena Vieyra, Jimena Trejo
Civil engineer
IE Ortega, Enrique Ortega
Structural engineer
Moncad, Jorge Cadena
Landscape
Aldaba Jardines, Thalia Divadoff
Typology
Residential › House
The project involves the renovation and expansion of a residence located in the heart of Coyoacán. Efforts to optimize resources resulted in the enlargement of the original space, which now functions as an art studio and production workshop.
Project name
Taller Estudio Daniela Riquelme
Architecture firm
AMASA Estudio
Location
Mexico City, Mexico
Principal architect
Andrea López, Agustín Pereyra
Collaborators
Gabino Neri, Oscar Baltazar, Jorge Luis Santiago
Structural engineer
Juan Felipe Heredia
Environmental & MEP
Gabino Neri
Lighting
Andrea López, Agustín Pereyra
Construction
AMASA Estudio
Typology
Residential › Restoration, Workshop
The meticulous restoration of a 1920s house in the Juárez neighborhood of Mexico City, together with a careful choice of textures, materials and colors that evoke Mediterranean landscapes, bring to life the latest project from the Mexican studio headed up by Regina Galvanduque and Andrés Mier y Terán.
Project name
Piazza Pasticcio
Architecture firm
MYT+GLVDK
Location
Colonia Juárez, Mexico City, Mexico
Photography
Paola Patricia López, JPARK Studio
Principal architect
Regina Galvanduque, Andrés Mier y Terán
Typology
Hospitality › Restaurant
CRB Arquitectos : The Tonalá 15 project, located in the Roma neighborhood, in Mexico City, arises from the need to adapt to a triangular plot located at the intersection of Insurgentes, the longest avenue in Mexico City, and Tonalá Street.
Project name
Edificio Tonalá 15
Architecture firm
CRB Arquitectos
Location
Tonalá 15, Roma Norte, Mexico City, Mexico
Design team
Sebastián Canales, Javier Rivero Borrell, Regina Kuri, Carmen Alfaro and Alejandra Álvarez
Interior design
Estudio M:A
Structural engineer
Ubando Ingeniería (Óliver Ubando) and Amador Terán
Budget
$29,000 per square meter
Typology
Residential › Apartments
