Hotel Avándaro has been renovated by mexican firms Chain + Siman and modomanera to meet the growing demand of visitors and integrate a contemporary design vision in dialogue with the site’s various historical layers.
Project name
Hotel Avándaro
Architecture firm
Chain + Siman, modomanera
Location
Valle de Bravo, State of Mexico, Mexico
Principal architect
Renatta Chain, Lina Siman
Design team
Chain + Siman (Renatta Chain, Lina Siman), modomanera (Patricio Galindo Chain, Natalia Zenteno Ortega)
Collaborators
PRÓXIMA (Energetic Solutions)
Interior design
Chain + Siman
Typology
Hospitality › Hotel, Conference Centre, Restaurant, Golf Club
The re-edition of Mexican designer Sebastián Ángeles’ Frequency 2.0 collection marks a new phase in his creative exploration of the relationship between sound and matter. Through this conceptual and material exercise, the collection transforms sound waves into unique design pieces.
Written by
Sebastián Ángeles
Photography
Sebastián Ángeles
Sordo Madaleno have designed a new home for one of Mexico’s most long-lived football teams Atlas FC based in Guadalajara. Called Academia Atlas, the building serves six professional football fields and includes clubhouses, applied sport science facilities and administrative offices.
Project name
Academia Atlas
Architecture firm
Sordo Madaleno
Location
Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico
Photography
Edmund Sumner
Principal architect
Javier Sordo Madaleno Bringas, Javier Sordo Madaleno de Haro, Fernando Sordo Madaleno de Haro
Design team
Daniel Laredo García, Josué Palacios Palma, Marisol Flores González, Enrique Contreras, Ricardo Mondragón
Collaborators
Andrés Muñoz Alarcón, Edgar Beltrán Navas
Completion year
January 2024
Landscape
Plantica- Roberto Huber
Structural engineer
GGaxiola y Asociados
Environmental & MEP
Electric Engineering: GRUCO. A/C Engineering: SENSAIRE.
Lighting
LUA- Luz en Arquitectura
Construction
Anteus Constructora
Typology
Sports Architecture
Located in the heart of the White City, right on Paseo Montejo, the boutique hotel brings together tradition and sophistication in a welcoming atmosphere that merges the characteristic textures, aromas, colors and warmth of the Yucatan Peninsula.
Photography
Kahal Hotel, Diafragmas, David Yawalker
Designed to blend in with nature and built with deep respect for History and for the local community, this boutique hotel in Baja California offers a sensorial experience where gastronomy, architecture and excursions intertwine in perfect harmony.
Photography
Courtesy of El Perdido
Walking through Casa Zazil evokes a variety of feelings and senses. The wind that moves through the vegetation, stirring sounds, the textures of the materials, the roughness of the stone, the variety of tones and scents imparted by the grain of the wood; walking through the house from the entrance continually awakens the curiosity of visitors to di...
Architecture firm
Di Frenna Arquitectos
Location
Residencial Altozano, Cuauhtémoc, Colima, Mexico
Photography
Lorena Darquea
Principal architect
Matia Di Frenna Müller
Design team
Matia Di Frenna Müller, Mariana de la Mora Padilla, Juan Gerardo Guardado Ávila
Material
Concrete, Stone, Steel, Glass
Typology
Residential › House
Exploring the confines of urban reality, this home emerges as a dream materialized for a young couple who, faced with the economic and social challenges of Mexico City, found their longed-for home outside of this context. The fusion of her musical passion and his love of reading is meticulously reflected in every detail of the spaces created.
Project name
Mixquiahuala House
Architecture firm
Omar Vergara Taller
Location
Mixquiahuala, Hidalgo, Mexico
Principal architect
Omar Vergara
Design team
Omar Vergara, Ana López, Irene Martín, Alejandro García, Uriel Herrera, Sebastián Morales
Interior design
Omar Vergara Taller
Lighting
Omar Vergara Taller
Supervision
Omar Vergara Taller
Visualization
Omar Vergara Taller
Construction
Francisco Méndez, Julio Hernández
Typology
Residential › House
In the heart of the Oaxacan coast, the sustainable architecture of Productora and the interior design of The Book of WA come together in a harmonious dialogue between the constructed and the natural. This project employs materials that respect local biodiversity, integrating regenerative building practices that enhance the essential beauty of the l...
Architecture firm
Productora
Location
Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, Mexico
Photography
Onnis Luque, Kymaia
Principal architect
Natalia Badia
Design team
The Book of WA
Collaborators
Ezequiel Ayarza Sforza (Conceptualization and development), Eduardo García (Culinary concept)
Interior design
The Book of WA
Tools used
Reinforced concrete walls, slopes made of on-site blocks with concrete and local soil, traditional palapa with palm and wooden beams
Construction
Salinas Architecture and Construction
Material
Concrete, local wood, concrete blocks with local soil, local palm
Typology
Hospitality › Hotel
