Author Archives: Juan Carlos Cano

An old textile factory in Mexico City is being transformed by Productora into a hub for creative industries, while trying to resist financial speculation

Built on the lava fields of Mexico City, Taller Mauricio Rocha’s extension to the Anahuacalli Museum belongs to a constellation of utopias across the city

New into Old 2019 Commended: Deploying a light-touch approach, three young architects have revamped the Sala Margolin in Mexico City into the new Galería OMR

The devastation wrought by powerful earthquakes in Mexico in 1985 and 2017 spurred the architectural community to revisit social housing, but sometimes proposals were wrought for no more than media attention

Part of the reconstruction programme that emerged after the earthquake in 2017, this project was created with very simple elements that link with the climatic and cultural conditions of the place

Comunal’s work in Tepetzintán, Puebla, started with restoring the tradition of bamboo construction, which had been forgotten as a building technique.

Designed by Alberto Kalach, the project hoped to produce new, realistic ideas for low-rise social housing projects

Poised between land and sea, the architect’s scheme for the Casa Wabi art foundation explores the tension between the precision of a Japanese sensibility and the lush profusion of a Mexican coastal landscape

Calls for transparency in the judicial system in Mexico have inspired a novel architectural approach