Automex Automex Facilities
Facilities Client: Automex Location: Toluca, México Size: 129,930 Sqft
The main purpose of the Project searches to break with old concepts, according to which a factory is just a working place, therefore doesn't have to be an attractive and human place. This is a very important industrial unit of which just the first stage has been built; the manufacture engine plant, the offices, services and cafeteria. Foreseeing any possible increases, not only the existing buildings, but also of new industries of the unit, an exterior railway circuit has been created as well as a central axis of automobiles, pedestrian and trailers access which ends in the large plaza of the cones, two buildings which have become the attraction points of the plant. The largest contains a water tank in its upper part and an auditorium in its lower part and the smallest contains a cistern. Extensive parameters and big open spaces mark out the whole unit and distinguish it with the help of some basic materials and textures. Located in a building lot of 6,148,260 Sqft of surface, this plant was planned to lodge all the different activities of the Automex Factory. In this project a new concept of industrial architecture has been used, breaking the old inhuman concepts which supposes that an industrial plant is foreign to any idea of comfort to the worker, and also that the aesthetic sense of the building is superfluous. In this work, instead, has been intended to give it a kind and human characteristic within a truly Mexican context, based on big solid wall, windows and adequate places with big open spaces, gardens and large circulations to automobiles as well as pedestrians.
Date of Completion: 1964 Architecture: LEGORRETA ARQUITECTOS Ricardo Legorreta Carlos Vargas Senior Noé Castro Carlos Hernández Ramiro Alatorre Structural Design: S.G. Construcciones Plumber and Electrical Design: S.G. Construcciones Contractor: S.G. Construcciones Photographer: Katy Horna
With an excellent public road and railway access, a road engineering system of unit has been obtained, very simple and functional: the vehicle access by the East Boulevard and the perimeter ring which would be useful to the different unit plants of autos, without the necessity of automobiles to cross from one place to another.The whole project includes the engine plant, the assembling plant and cafeteria, control booth, parking for the new vehicles, test track and enough space for the construction of complementary plants to those mentioned above. The structure of the building is made of iron with an ingenious cover which, following the outlines of the frameworks, forms a plastic and aluminium panels placed at 45° to obtain an excellent natural diffuse illumination, ideal for the work. The exterior walls are partition walls re-covered of Oaxaca Stone and with windows toward large gardens. Apart from the production offices of this plant, there are also dressing rooms and showers for the workers. An extension of the plant, up to 50% of the actual surface, was foreseen. On the south of the cones plaza, the office building is located with a surface of 14,348 Sqft, which consists in structure made of assembled concrete frames and big polarized glass windows which allows great view amplitude toward the gardens and the plaza. Sun burn problems had been solved with a protection made of aluminum window blinds by the south side and a circulation portico which communicates with the cafeteria and the engine plant by the north side. Located between the office building and the engine plant, there is the cafeteria with a surface of 480 m2 and with capacity for 300 workers, 60 executives and 90 office employees. The cafeteria has a complete equipment of kitchen and storage. Annexed to the kitchen there is the service station for vehicles of the plant as well as for vehicles tests. As the auxiliaries building, the plant has a shed for workers bicycles as well as an entrance booth in which there are the undertaking office, the medical service and the trade union. Finally, the sports camps of the city were built. The amount of the civil, mechanical and electric construction of the plant has been of $18,780,870 USD and lasting 7 months and a half. It was projected and constructed by the Mexican technicians with the advice of North American specialists in engines manufacture.
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Monterrey Library Monterrey Library
Uniquely sited and shaped to respond to the "Ni単os Heroes Park", the library of Monterrey sits between a velodrome and an existing lake. Conceived to meet two functions: one as the main information center for the University Libraries System, and the other as a link via satellite with other educational institutions all over the world. The library has a capacity to house 500,000 volumes in an area of 200,000 square feet distributed in 8 levels. The library zone is composed basically of two geometric bodies; a concrete cube is surrounded by a brick cylinder which extremes end in two descending triangles, one of which introduces itself into the lake, thus integrating the building to the site. The result is a sculptural form within the park. Both bodies house the two basic functions of the library. The reading areas are located inside the cylinder and have visual contact with the park, while the books are housed inside the cube which was designed in quarter levels.
Client: Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon Location: Nuevo Leon, Mexico
This solution divides the floor plan in 4 platforms with three feet difference in level between each one, creating a more fluid space in spiral form that allows the flexibility required in the arrangement of the books.
Size: 215,000 Sqft Date of Completion: 1994 Architecture: LEGORRETA ARQUITECTOS Ricardo Legorreta Victor Legorreta Noe Castro Hector Cavazos Associate Architect: Chavez & Vigil Arquitectos Interior Design: LEGORRETA ARQUITECTOS Chavez Vigil Arqs. Asociados Lighting:LEGORRET Starco Photographers: Lourdes Legorreta
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Both volumes are surrounded by a two story base which contains the administrative areas, the Library of Political Issues and the Auditorium. The base continues to Universidad Avenue with a portico that travels through the exhibition galleries and serves to give a more human scale to the building in contact with the user of the park.
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Hotel Sheraton Hotel Sheraton
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The Hotel is part of the new Ria 2000 master plan of the City of Bilbao. It's located several distant blocks from the Guggenheim Museum; it is the last property on Victoria Maria Boulevard before approaching the river. The property is a small site of 17,650 Sqft. The hotel was designed as a compact volume in harmony with the context that surrounds it. The plan of the City indicated to construct until the bordering limits of the property with a height of 10 levels and one extra set back of 3 meters. Inspired by the work of artist Chillida and the solid roots, history and culture of the Vasque Country, the building is treated like a stone block, that is transformed into a “Sculpture”, to which certain perforations have been tilled. In its interior there is an 8 storey central atrium that culminates in a ceiling forming half of a vault. The light plays a very important role in this space since it is illuminated by the different volume perforations, creating a different light and shadow game at each hour of the day.
Client: Starwood Hotels & Resorts - Sheraton Hotels Cosmit, S.A. Ybarra y Cia. Location: Bilbao, Spain Size: 193,000 Sqft Date of Completion: 2004 Architecture: LEGORRETA + LEGORRETA Ricardo Legorreta Victor Legorreta Noe Castro Miguel Almaraz Adriana Ciklik Carlos Vargas AssociateArchitect: TDM Arquitectos Executive Architect: Aurtenechea & Pérez-Iriondo Arquitectos Interior Design: LEGORRETA + LEGORRETA Photographers: Jaime Ardiles-Arce Jose Latova
The perforations were studied from a sculptural point of view on the exterior and depending on the different views, opening in the first levels towards the park and in the superior levels towards the mountains; once the height has overpassed the commercial center adjacent, the volume ends with a tower which converts itself into a lighthouse at the corner. The facade is treated like a lattice window with 9 squares per room to give major intimacy to them and at the same time, to achieve that the facades count more like one aside, forming a massive volume. The bar and restaurant are located in the ground floor, the suites are distributed in different levels, the pool and the health club on the 6th floor, in one of the big perforations with the park view. The hotel has more than 211 rooms, between standard rooms and suites, having all the installations of a 5 stars hotel. The rooms have been oriented along the perimeter so that guests can enjoy the different views like the mountains towards the north, the river and the old City towards the west and the park towards the south.
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CaminoReal RealHotel Hotel Camino Cancun Cancun Cliet: Banco Nacional de MĂŠxico Westin Hotels
Interior Design: LEGORRETA ARQUITECTOS Emilio Guerrero
One enters the hotel through a huge, green, circular space, with a vertical water fountain in the middle, welcoming the visitor into an atmosphere of peace. Its public areas are designed to attract the guests in a very special way, integrating outdoor and indoor areas and furnishing them with colorful tropical elements.
The hotel has a small but adequate convention room, with capacity for 200 persons, and various bars situated along a porticoes corridor, where the travel agency, barber shop, shops and beauty salons are also found.
Size: 322,920 Sqft
Architecture: LEGORRETA ARQUITECTOS Ricardo Legorreta Noe Castro Carlos Vargas senior
With this natural background of beauty, enhanced with its proximity to the Mayan archeological zones, Camino Real Cancun contributes with its soberly and elegant architecture to an integration with the cultural setting of this region.
Restaurant Azulejos, with capacity for 175 to 250 persons, between indoor and terrace areas, operates as the main breakfast and lunch place. The bar restaurant of "Fun Room", with a capacity for 175 persons is the night spot, featuring a combination of activities.
Location: Cancun, Mexico
Date of Completion: 1975
Camino Real Cancun is located at the edge of a peninsula in the Mexican Caribbean. One of the main and maybe the most attractive characteristic is its tropical vegetation which contrasts with the turquoise blue of its peaceful beaches. It is difficult to find a better climate in other tourist zones of the country.
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Aside from these well defined areas, there is a lobby bar totally opened to the outdoors and with capacity for approximately 100 persons.
The rooms located in the internal part of the site are formed by a four storied pavilion with two blocks; one vertical with 112 rooms and the other inclined with 144 rooms, both facing the sea on one side and a salt water lagoon on the other side. Dividing the building in two, there is a green house running from side to side, creating a space interrupted only by strong frames that climb up to the third floor, giving thus a perspective which, combined with the color and design of its gardens, gives a very special atmosphere.
Photographer: Julius Shulman
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CaminoReal RealHotel Hotel Camino Ixtapa Ixtapa 1989 Most outstanding project of his country . By the Jury of the “ First Critical Encounter of Architecture in Latin America”, Santiago de Chile, Chile. 1990 Silver Medal in the First Biennial of Mexican Architecture. Mexico. Client: Westin Hotels de México Location: Ixtapa, Mexico Size: 495,140 Sqft Date of Completion: 1981 Architecture: LEGORRETA ARQUITECTOS Ricardo Legorreta Noe Castro Carlos Vargas Senior Gerardo Alonso Rosa Celorio Michael Leautaud
"The client wanted a hotel like Las Brisas in Acapulco, which was designed by a sailor not an architect, but it was not economically feasible. Alternatively, I said, let's have the way of life of Las Brisas in Ixtapa". Ricardo Legorreta The program required the typical spaces of a hotel including the appropriate number of rooms, air conditioning, meeting rooms and conference spaces. The owner proposed a site and that a traditional hotel tower should be built on it. Legorreta suggested an alternative site, the best site in Ixtapa, but warned the owner that he would have to build the best hotel in the country on it and acquire ownership of the entire beach. The major challenges for the project were the hilly terrain of the site, the owner's desire for a traditional tower and the integration of the facility with the landscape. The operating company called for a tower, and the first scheme proposed by Legorreta respected its wishes. However, the building's size, the amount of air conditioning needed and other factors made the scheme unfeasible. The owner began to have doubts about proceeding with the project, so Legorreta asked for permission to develop an alternative scheme.
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Instead of air conditioning the entire hotel, only sleeping quarters would be mechanically cooled and even in those areas, there would be the option of a simple ceiling fan. The living area for each room would be placed on the outside, on a terrace with seating and dining areas, plants and a view to the Pacific Ocean, a relaxed living space naturally cooled. Similarly, eliminated air conditioning was eliminated in all the public spaces except rest rooms and meeting rooms, relying on cross ventilation instead. These changes reduced costs by a 20/25%. Again breaking with tradition, the new design was not a tower: it would not be a form on the mountain; it would be the mountain, with rooms terraced down the slope. It would not fight the natural landscape but blend with the topography. The terraced hotel's lower profile required planning an efficient way of operation. Legorreta worked very closely with the client to develop cost saving ideas, while developing new ways for accommodating the needs and desires of hotel guests. Instead of closet doors, nets were designed for closet openings. Much of the furniture was built in, so it could be made economically. Most importantly, the team achieved a quality of life at the hotel that exceeded expectations and created a special and intimate environment for guests. The focal point of each room was the terrace which had views to the beach and down to the mountainside. Guests were immediately drawn outward to the step-down pools where relaxation and a spirit of play were provided.
Structural Design: Dirac Electric Design: B.i.p.s.a Contractor: Gutsa Bolaños Photographer: Lourdes Legorreta Armando Salas Portugal
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CaminoReal RealHotel Hotel Camino Mexico Mexico
The excellent opportunity of an 8 acre site being available at a reasonable price in downtown Mexico City, brought the idea of building a mixed use high rise building that would include a hotel, offices, apartments as well as shopping centers and parking facilities. This project required a very high investment with a very low interest rate. Not withstanding certain varieties could turn it to be a conventional project. It was then decided that all the land should be used for the purpose of a hotel, giving special characteristics to the project, basically searching for an individual personality motivated by a reaction of the architect against the coldness and lack of friendliness of ordinary hotels. Other problems were taken into consideration such as separating the public life of the hotel from the guestrooms area. The concerns caused by earthquakes initiated a complete study of a maximum reasonable height for the construction based on a bearing wall system amounting for a safe story building. The height allowed the right number of required guestrooms and to keep a number of spaces between them distributed in such a way that with the exception of the rooms that face the central patio, the rest have their private and individual view.
Client: Banco Nacional de MĂŠxico Westin Hotels Location: Mexico City, Mexico Size: 920,000 Sqft Date of Completion: 1968 In constant renovation Architecture: LEGORRETA ARQUITECTOS Ricardo Legorreta Noe Castro Carlos Vargas Senior Carlos Hernandez Ramiro Alatorre Interiors: LEGORRETA ARQUITECTOS Structural Design: Bernardo Calderon Jose Luis Calderon Hydraulic Design: Ingenieria Panamericana, S.A. Photographer: Julius Shulman Armando Salas Portugal Nadine Markova Lourdes Legorreta
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El Papalote Children´smuseum museum El Papalote Children´s andPlanetarium Planetarium and
This museum is for and of the mexican children. It simbolizes the mexican family. Situated at the edge of Chapultepec Park. The children´s museum is integrated to the fountains and the woods of Chapultepec. This symbolic connection is carried into the interior courtyard trough the use of stone and water. The open and closed spaces are arranged naturally, inviting the visitors to wonder. Children are liberated here to gain an interest in discovery and feel as the museum belongs exclusively to them. The challenge for the next Children´s Museum was both simple and complex. There was a need to welcome and inspire children about art and learning,otherwise they can be easily intimidated by the sheer size and volume of a museum facility, therefore the design had to work with understandable forms, material and colors, which in term would simulate children´s imagination and fantasies. The 260,000 sqft museum consists of an IMAX for 300 people, exhibits, multipurpose room, cafe, shop, administratative offices and out door exhibits.
Client: FUNDACION MUSEO DE NINOS Location: Mexico City, Mexico Size: 260,000 sqf. Architecture: LEGORRETA ARQUITECTOS Ricardo Legorreta Victor legorreta Noe Castro Gerardo Alonso Guillermo Díaz de Sandi Interiors: LEGORRETA ARQUITECTOS Erika Krayer LandscapeArchitect: Legorreta + Legorreta Structural Design: Ing. Raul Izquierdo MEP: Hubard Y Bourloh Contractor: Ica, Construccion Urbana Photographer: Lourdes Legorreta
The basic geometry forms like cubes, sphere and triangular shapes are easily identified at distance and are familiar to children.The variety of forms and spaces also awakes curiosity and retains the visitor´s interest during repited visits. The volumens are defined by shape and color (traditional glazed tiles were used, recovering an ancient Mexican tradition). Natural light, colors and materials create a cheerful and exciting building that evokes both the caracter and the culture of Mexico. The museum has been designed to be 100 percent interactive, with an atmosphere for children to touch and experience a new world. Working closely with the exhibit designers, we provide flexible exhibits which could be used and transformed by children. Murals on the walls and ceilings were done by them. One of the greatest challenges was to design a building which could sustain sustantial abuse and little maintenance, therefore we used tile throughout the exterior of the building. inside are plaster walls, concrete and vinyl flooring.
The children´s museum is a truly humane and joyful building, a statement of a country´s love for its children. The new facility stands as a visual testament to the most cherished possession of mexican people: its children. The planetarium was thought since the original project and for this end the sphere was built, it was early used to show somo exhibitions berfore its habilitation. The structure, from the beginning, is an integration of two structural systems: the (low part from the ecuator) is made of reinforced concrete and the upper part is formed with concentric ribbings made of steel and cells of a light material with a cover of concrete in both side, in this external face it´s covered with green ceramic tiles. The principal requirement was to design a projection room for 280 persons, having as norm of operation the technology of “theaters of immersion” which consists in projecting with 6 heads located in the perimeter of the auditorium to a dome which geometry describes a sphere´s segment from the ecuator, that at the same time has an inclination. This dome is built with aluminium with a higher level of purity than the commertial one and has a structure of rectangular tubes that form a frame from which chains hang and suspend the dome from the stucture, That´s why is considered a delicate and fine piece. Beween the wall and the dome base, there is a space from where the lights of the projectors come out. The grades are trace in function of the radius of the projection dome. In eachrow, sits are place whith different inclination, according to the angle required in the endorsement and to the height of each row and its position in respect to the projection dome. This generates different width in the rows which need more space when they have a higher reclination.
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Juárez Complex Juárez Complex DesignAward 2007, Best Government Building , by the Precast Concrete Institute. Client: Government of Mexico city (Plaza Juarez) Secretariat of Foreign Affairs Building ”Torre Tlatelolco” Superior Court of Justice of the Federal District Location: Mexico city, Mexico Size: Plaza Juarez: 296,000 Sqft Secretariat of Foreign Affairs Building ”Torre Tlatelolco”:631,360 Sqft Superior Court of Justice of the Federal District: 390,080 Sqft Date of completion: Plaza Juarez: 2003 Secretariat of Foreign Affairs Building ”Torre Tlatelolco” 2005 Superior Court of Justice of the Federal District: 2005 Master Plan & Architecture: LEGORRETA + LEGORRETA Ricardo Legorreta Victor Legorreta Noe Castro Miguel Almaraz Adriana Ciklik Carlos Vargas
Juarez complex is located inside the historical center of Mexico City, in front of the Alameda Park. With a total area of 296,000 sqft, the complex is adjacent on the north side with Juarez Avenue, on the south side with Independencia street, on the east side with Dolores street, and on the west side with Luis Moya street. Juarez Complex has as a primary objective, to regenerate an important zone of the historical downtown of Mexico City that was severely damaged by the 1985 earthquake. The complex is formed by open spaces, passages and plazas. The new headquarters for the Foreign Affairs Secretariat and the Superior Court of Justice of the Federal District, as well as mixed use buildings and parking lots are part of the Juarez Complex. Because of its location, this complex is defined as a transition zone between the “Paseo de la Reforma” avenue with great scale buildings and the Historical Center of the City, with buildings of lower heights and spaces with more friendly scales for the pedestrians. In the architectonic planning we search to respond to this new context, reason why, we designed a 44 feet high basement made out of “Huixquilucan Pearl“ stone. The roofs of such basement are treated as gardens and terraces, to be used as expansion areas for the taller buildings. The height of the basement responds to the one of the Corpus Christi´s Temple which design, materials, and scale have a clear relation with the Historical Center. In coordination with the Historical District Organization, and with the INAH (National Institute of Anthropology and History), we restored the Corpus Christi´s temple in order to make it work as the main attraction with the rest of the complex.
Of all this outdoor spaces, the main one is Plaza Juarez which surrounds the temple of Corpus Christi. This Plaza is the key generator of the rest of the complex, and the main pedestrian access to it. In the center of the plaza, we designed, together with the plastic artist Vicente Rojo, a great fountain that completes with the use of water, the integration to the vegetation in Alameda's park. The design of the fountain is a water mirror of 114 x 98 feet, with more than one thousand red concrete pyramids that in addition to the movement of water generated by a series of air injectors between each pyramid turns into a great fountain full of movement. Along the exterior spaces, besides Vicente Rojo’s fountain, is located the mural called “VELOCIDAD” (”Speed”) from the Mexican muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros, among other pieces of art with the intention to recover the tradition of public popular art of our city.
Photographer: Lourdes Legorreta, Luis Gordoa José Ignacio González Manterola, Arturo García Campos.- COURTESY CEMEX, FIDEICOMISO CENTRO HISTORICO Y SECRETARIA DE TURISMO DEL D.F.
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SouthTexas Texas South Instituteofofthe theArts Arts Institute Client: Art Museum of South Texas Location: Corpus Christi, Texas Size: 23,360 Sqft Date of Completion: 2007
The Art Museum of South Texas in Corpus Christi was originally intended to be an exhibition space for temporary installations & exhibits of art. As the Museum and the City have expanded during the past 25 years to include a collecting program and ambitious arts education activities the original building by Philip Johnson needed to be expanded. Legorreta + Legorreta was selected to design a new building that addresses the expanded components of the Museum. It is also considered to be a place where the community gathers for learning, and social activities. Located on one of the most scenic undeveloped sites in the City, at the entrance of Corpus Christi's inner harbor, between the Corpus Christi Museum of Science and History and the original Museum, the site is bounded by sea on the east and north, a water garden and convention center to the south and museums to the west and south-east. The new facility is emphasized by a horizontal design plan that complements rather than competes with the Johnson's Museum and surrounding buildings. The public access and parking were resolved by adding a proximate entrance to the new facility, radial to the water garden circle, similar to the Museum's walkway, and additional parking areas were designed. All major art galleries will continue to be located in the Johnson's building while education programs, collections, offices and public service areas will be in the new facility. The main entry is through a 35 ft. tower that serves as a Lobby, the west wing holds a library/conference room, a computer design room and a photography classroom. It also has services, the collectors vault and public toilets. Three separated pavilions are standing in a reflecting pool, the Children's Interactive Center, the Ceramics & Sculpture room and the Multi-purpose room. An arcade articulates the different volumes and serves as an exhibition space where students work is exhibited. The arcade continues to the Johnson's Museum, connecting to a vestibule. The new gift shop and coffee shop as a node where the general offices are located to control both facilities. There is always visual contact with the sea through the connections and with the City's Aquarium on the other side of the channel. An amphitheater is located between the two buildings and it is the access to the promenade that runs along the shore line and it's intended to go along the channel in the future.
Architecture: LEGORRETA + LEGORRETA Ricardo Legorreta VĂctor Legorreta Noe Castro Miguel Almaraz Adriana Ciklik Carlos Vargas Project Manager: Paloma Vergara AndrĂŠs Lozano Executive Architect: DykemaArchitects Photographer: Lourdes Legorreta
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Camino RealMonterrey Monterrey Camino Real Hotel Hotel Winner of the National Prize 2007 - Tourism Category, given by the Mexican Association of Interior Design. Client: Camino Real Monterrey Location: Site Size:
Monterrey, Nuevo Le贸n, Mexico 70,934 Sqft.
Construction area: Date of Completion:
365,972 Sqft. January 2007
The project intends to satisfy the need of accommodation of executives, in an area of high development like Monterrey, offering commodity and tranquility for any guest in a city hotel, whether he is a national citizen or a foreigner. The architectural concept is set out to take advantage, in the best way, of the views and sunlight. Some holes were made on the facades which lessen its rigidity and the monotony of the buildings; they also work in order to have better views. The lot designated for this project is located in the municipality of San Pedro Garza Garc铆a, in Nuevo Leon and inside the commercial micro zone of Valle Oriente. It is adjacent to a shopping mall and across the street from a hospital; the project intends to link the three buildings by bridges. It has an area of 53,800 sqft. The main access to the hotel has a fountain which ends up at the motor lobby. In the inside, there is a lobby of 4 levels giving presence and solemnity to the reception area. This hotel has 202 rooms including single rooms, double rooms, suites and a presidential suite. There are two levels of underground parking with a capacity of 218 cars of which 8 are sized for handicapped cars to go along with the requirements of the project. It has two restaurants, one is part of the services of the hotel and the other is a concession which has an independent entrance. Places to spread out and for activities are proposed for the comfort of the guests. A room for conventions which can be subdivided makes the space very flexible. There is a gym, pool , business center, among the hotel amenities.
Architecture: LEGORRETA + LEGORRETA Ricardo Legorreta Victor Legorreta Noe Castro Miguel Almaraz Adriana Ciklik Carlos Vargas Structural Design: Izquierdo Ingenieros Y Asociados S.c. Electric Design: Piesa S. A. De C. V. Plumber Design: Garza Maldonado Y Asociados S.C. Contractor: Prodemex Photographer: Lourdes Legorreta Allen Vallejo
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ITESMGrad GradShools Shools ITESM Monterrey Monterrey
Legorreta + Legorreta has encouraged the owner to support the design of a green building. At the start of the project, Legorreta + Legorreta, along with the engineers (Ove Arup Partners / SOC), the owner, and the maintenance department, established the criteria for maximum energy consumption, minimum air quality standards and an annual maintenance budget. The goals established at the early design stages, set the foundation for an integrated, comfortable and energy efficient project. Serious considerations were given to local materials, climate, and soils. The materials used in the envelope will reduce solar gain in the summer and heat loss in the winter.
Client: ITESM - Instituto Tecnologico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey
The unique spiral shape responds to its predominant location within the site, as well as the school's need to create a symbol. The access to the building is at the center of the spiral and through a 30' high atrium. Covered by a glass roof, the atrium will allow natural light into the different spaces.
Location: Monterrey, Mexico
The ground floor houses 13 classrooms, an auditorium for 300 people, a multipurpose room, a coffee shop for 80 people, meeting rooms and fellow areas. The second floor includes 40 offices, open office space, meeting rooms, a library, 2 laboratories and a teachers´ lounge. The third and last floor is dedicated to administrative functions. In addition, the school provides a two level underground parking structure for approximately 530 cars.
Size: EGADE-86,111 Sqft EGAPP-161,458 sqft
EGADE: business administration graduate shool
Date of Completion: EGADE-2001 EGAPP-2006 Architecture: LEGORRETA + LEGORRETA Ricardo Legorreta Victor Legorreta Noe Castro Carlos Vargas Miguel Almaraz Adriana Ciklik Victor Figueroa Juan Carlos Nolasco Interiors: LEGORRETA + LEGORRETA Structural Engineer: EGADE: itesm Engineering Department Dr. Francisco Yeomans EGAPP-Optimos Constructivos Electric and Mechanic Design: EGADE-Tecnos Ingenieria, S.A. Ing. Enrique Garay EGAPP-Ove Arup Partners / ITESM
Located in a 4 acres parcel, off-site the ITESM Campus, the EGADE (business administration graduate shool) pretends to be the leading Graduate Business School of the Americas. In order to attract the best students of Latin America as well as executives of leading International corporations, the school's objective was to build an icon structure with an innovative program. In order for students and executives to interact, one of the primary goals was to create human and inviting spaces that make both of them feel at home. One of the challenges is to combine good design with functional requirements in an environment that will foster unique ideas. The design keeps a perfect balance between the needs of the students and the needs of the executives: this is another challenge. We needed to be careful not to create a place that will intimidate students nor a building with a corporate atmosphere.
EGAPP:public,
policy and administration graduate business shool
The EGAPP Business School belongs to a Master Plan that includes a convention center, offices, shops, restaurants, a hotel and the EGADE Business School; all buildings have the purpose of satisfying the necessities of the students and executives. ThIis building has 11 levels, 3 of them are under the ground, allowing classrooms, cafeteria, library and bookstore..
On one hand we needed to be aware that the primary users were the students; therefore, it should preserve the essence of a school. On the other hand, it had to have a certain quality, a quality that reflects the lifestyle of the executives while going back to school.
Mechanic Design : EGAPP-Ove Arup Partners / ITESM Photographer: Lourdes Legorreta
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FirmHistory History Firm The Legorreta + Legorreta team consists of three major components: the Design Team, which provide leadership and director on the design, the Management Team, which focuses on project development, and the Support Team, which consists of an internal resource group of junior architects, draftsmen, and model makers. During the past years we have worked with the Federal and State Government of Mexico on several projects, as well as with U.S. public institutions. During the design of these projects, we have done presentations for the design and urbanism review boards of the different cities. L + L seeks to create an architecture that will serve society and contribute to build better cities. While achieving functionality, efficiency and cost, we shall be able to design an environment that is human and friendly, one that has an atmosphere of intimacy, peace and optimism. The use of color, light, water and mystery is more of an emotional response to our architecture than an intellectual one. Each architect has an Autocad station and is connected to an in- house network. This way we can transmit information to other parts of the world via Modem or through the E-mail system. In addition, we have an in-house model shop, where we do all of our study and presentation models. To complement our work, we have a photographic department that provides us with images and information for the projects and for several architectural publications.
Legorreta Arquitectos was founded more than 40 years ago by Ricardo Legorreta, Noe Castro and Carlos Vargas senior. Since then, the objective has been to achieve the best architecture inspired in human values. During the 60´s and 70´s Legorreta Arquitectos was well known for its work such as the Camino Real Hotel in Mexico City, Cancun and Ixtapa, office buildings for Seguros America Banamex and IBM in Mexico, laboratories and factories for Kodak, Smith & Kline, Nissan and Renault, as well as low income housing projects for Infonavit and several residential works. In the 80´s, Legorreta Arquitectos began designing for other countries and have collaborated successfully with different local architects that have assisted with local codes, continuous contact with the client and for the elaboration of construction documents. At the beginning of the 90´s Victor Legorreta, son of Ricardo, joined the firm leading a group of young architects. Together with Ricardo Legorreta, he is involved in the design of all projects. In 2000, the office name changed to Legorreta + Legorreta which represents more than a name, it represents the current organization.
Design Design Philosophy Philosophy At Legorreta + Legorreta we design for the people who use the buildings, therefore, we look for an architecture that makes people happy and not an architecture only for architects to admire. We believe that a good building is the one which responds not only to the needs of the users, to the city, to the environment, to a schedule and budget, but also to the artistic and spiritual needs of the people.
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As a Mexican firm, Legorreta + Legorreta has been exposed and influenced by Mexican Vernacular architecture. Because of this we have learned to resolve problems in a fresh and spontaneous way, responding to program and budget issues with creative solutions. We have also learned the important role that human values play in architecture. ”A good building is one in which either a peasant or a king feels comfortable”. We are living in a world dominated by technology and information; we believe architecture should take advantage of both to make buildings that make us better human beings.
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In summary, architecture should be at the service of society above personal interests or false objectives. The architectural, engineering, and material solutions should respond to a building which makes the city, the users, and the clients proud, without being pretentious or expensive. In other words it has to be the best in quality of design and thinking.
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AU SIGMA DELTA Gold Medal for Architecture and Allied Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. American Society of Landscape Architects, USA. Most outstanding project of his country. “Hotel Camino Real Ixtapa" by the Jury of the "First Critical Encounter of Architecture in Latin America”, Santiago de Chile, Chile. Silver Medal in the First Biennial of Mexican Architecture for the Renault Factory, Mexico City, Mexico. Silver Medal in the First Biennial of Mexican Architecture for the Hotel Camino Real Ixtapa, Mexico. Architecture Record Houses Award for Excellence in Planning and Design for the West Wood House, Los Angeles, California, USA. NEOCON 9, Chicago´s Architectural Award, Illinois Council of the American Institute of Architects, Chicago, Illinois, USA. AIA´s Orange County Chapter, Tustin Market Place, California, USA. Fine Arts National Award, Mexican Government, Mexico City, Mexico. Gold Medal and Grand Award at the Second Mexican Biennial of Architecture for the Contemporary Art Museum / MARCO, Mexico. Certificate of Excellence in Design for the Solana Project, Dallas, Texas, USA. Gold Medal at the Second Mexican Biennial of Architecture for the Solana Project, Dallas, USA. Honorary Mention at the Second Mexican Biennial of Architecture for the Project Rancho Santa Fe, CA, USA. Seventh Nuevo Leon´s Biennial of Architecture for the Tec House, Monterrey, Mexico. "Architect of the Americas", Montevideo, Uruguay. "Religious Architecture Design Award" for the Metropolitan Cathedral of Managua, Washington D.C., USA. Science Foundation, San Antonio, Texas, USA. Design Award from the "Asian Pacific Design Award Program” for the Contemporary Art Museum / MARCO, Monterrey, Mexico. Gold Medal "Indivisa Manent", La Salle University, Mexico City, Mexico. AIA New Mexico Design Award for the project of the College of Santa Fe, Visual Arts Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. Architecture Award of the Athenaeum Museum for the Visual Arts Center in Santa Fe. Silver Medal in the IV Biennial of Mexican Architecture in the Residential House category "House in Japan", Mexico city, Mexico. Merit award by the Rocky Mountain Region of the AIA for the Zocalo Residential Compound, Santa Fe, NM. ‘Residential Multifamily of the year’ by local General Contractor Assoc. for the Zocalo Residential Compound, Santa Fe, NM.
project Parque Europa, Madrid, Spain. Design Award of Merit, Society of American Registered Architects for the Mexican Museum, San Francisco, California, USA. Silver Medal during the IX Bienal of Mexican Architecture for the Project Parque Europa in the category Social Housing Interior Design National Prize- Tourism Category: Camino Real Monterrey Hotel Honor Award 2007, Interior Design Category from AIA: La Purificadora, Boutique Hotel Design Award 2007, Best Government Building, by the Precast Concrete Institute. Benjamin Moore HUE Lifetime Achievement Award, USA. Institute Honor Award for Interior Architecture, by AIA, to the Hotel Boutique La Purificadora. Hospitality Design Award, by Hospitality Magazine, USA, to the Hotel Boutique La Purificadora. Silver Medal at the X Mexican Architecture Bienial to the Hotel Boutique La Purificadora. “Best Architecture (Single Unit) in Spain 2008" – European Property Awards, CNBC Best of 2008 Awards by Texas Construction, McGraw Hill Companies, to Marriot Solana, Westlake
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At Legorreta +Llegorreta we stirve on buildings with a spiritual emphasis that not only enhances the place in wich they are located but that in themselves encourage human interaction within safe enviroment. This philosophy has enable us to design works of architecture that are in synch with their surroundings as well as inviting to their users.
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House House theWoods Woods ininthe Client: N/A Location: Mexico City, Mexico
This house is located in Bosques de Santa Fe Complex at the west zone of Mexico City. The site is in a ravine surrounded by great trees. The main architectural aim was to integrate the house to the natural context. It is developed in four levels, surrounded by walkways and terraces from the bottom of the house through the heights point of it, where the main entrance is located. At this top level is a pool surrounded by impressive natural views of the woods. Just beneath the entrance, all the public zones of the house are located: the living room, dining room, kitchen, and one of the terraces; all of them are communicated by a long corridor that integrates water in to the floor of the space offering a comfortable weather. The private life of the house is developed at the ground floor. As well as the upper level spaces, all the bedrooms have windows to the green views that surround them. They are located around the family living room, promoting dialog and coexistence between family members. Sliding doors allow spaces to become bigger and offering an internal courses that hierarchies the main bedroom with the best view to the woods.
Size: 1700 m2 Date of Completion: 2008 Architecture: LEGORRETA + LEGORRETA Ricardo Legorreta Victor Legorreta Miguel Almaraz Adriana Ciklik Carlos Vargas Electric Design: SERDIPAR Photographer: Lourdes Legorreta
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The site has a strong character as it is located by the sea on top of a cliff, north of Tel Aviv. The soil consists of dark red sand with spectacular views to the sea. The aim is to have a house that adapts to the surroundings and the climate. Family life is created around a central blue courtyard which can be flooded and converted into a fountain. This patio gives a fresh interior environment to the very rough surroundings. The design intended to take advantage of the dramatic views but also to frame them. From the entrance there is a special window through the patio, living room which has both views to be seen. At the end of the courtyard there is a large living room that has both views: to the sea and the patio.
2004 Semifinalist in the Residentia l category of the 5th National Prize of Interiorism organized by the Mexican Association of Interior Designers.
Each of the spaces of the houses have a different character: the family room related to the pool, the dining room with cylindrical shape, the children's room, each one with a special patio and the main bedroom located at the second floor in order to have the best views. In this second floor there is also a small studio from which it is possible to get out to the roof and get advantage of the flat area.
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The colors of the exterior walls are in different tones of oxide so that it plays with the walls and volumes.
Location: Shfayim, Israel
The result is an abstract composition of walls, towers and volumes that blend in a coast landscape with the red sand and series of olive trees.
Size: 15,069 Sqft Date of Completion: 2001 Architecture: LEGORRETA + LEGORRETA Ricardo Legorreta Victor Legorreta Noe Castro Miguel Almaraz Adriana Ciklik Carlos Vargas Gerardo Alonso Jorge Tena Executive Architecture: Adolfo Levy Interiors: LEGORRETA + LEGORRETA Adriana Olmedo Contractor: Ell Shoshani Photographer: Yona Schley
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Palacio de Iturbide Palacio de Iturbide -Restoration -Restoration Location: Mexico city
Legorreta’s general policy was to return the building, as far as possible, to its 1780 form. A major exception, however, was that for both aesthetic and structural reasons; he retained many of the changes made by the architect Donde at the end of the last century. The central space, originally opened to the sky had been covered with a distractingly elaborate glass skylight. This was removed and replaced by Legorreta with a new roof shaped somewhat like an airline wing, its smooth lower surface curving upward to clerestory windows at two sides of the court.
Date of Completion: 1972
Nature of the Work: Architecture & Interior Design
The Palacio’s original use was as the residence of the Marquis of Jaral de Berrio and it was built in 1780 with the design of Francisco Guerrero y Torres, one of the most accomplished architects of Mexico’s colonial period. Only later it became Mexico’s Viceroyal Palace, during which time it was inhabited by Don Agustin de Iturbide. Later uses or misuses of the building included the housing of a College of Mining and of a company hotel for the General Diligences Company. Almost two centuries of such varied occupancy had, of course, resulted in many building modifications, and architect Ricardo Legorreta was presented with a landmark somewhat bastardized. What to save and what to eliminate were difficult decisions.
Client: Financiera Banamex
Architecture: LEGORRETA ARQUITECTOS Ricardo Legorreta Noe Castro Carlos Vargas Senior
Generally known to residents of Mexico City as the Iturbide Palace, this distinguished landmark, in the hands of Mexican architect Ricardo Legorreta, has been transformed into offices for one of the country’s most important private credit institutions, Financiera Banamex.
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Size: 30,000 sqft Photographer: Fernando Cordero
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Polarea Polareae Complex Complex
Casa Casadel delAgua AguaHotel Hotel The hospitality Project designed by Legorreta + Legorreta in the south part of Jeju island in South Korea, will house a 300 rooms hotel in a 21,000 m2 area, as well as a 200 housing spaces of one and two bedrooms in a 35,000m2 area. Both spaces will be unified by perforated roofs that cover the different buildings.
POLAREA will be located at the heart of the new Polanco, between Lago Zurich Street, Presa Falcon Street and Rio San Joaquin Street. It is a project that seeks for the recovery and consolidation of the zone, as well as the rescue of the urban way of living, offering around of the 60% of the site for green and pedestrian areas that invite to the coexistence among neighbors.
The site's topography has an unevenness of 20 m that allows a stepped architecture in different platforms that evocate the architecture of the pre-Hispanic Mexico and the oriental plantations. Accesses are independent; to the Hotel, one accesses through the main street which limits the Island's Convention Center; and to the Housing Complex, one accesses through the secondary street through a ramp.
The Master Plan was created after Grupo Lar announced an international competition, in which Mexican, Spanish and north American firms got involved, resulting as winner the Mexican firm: Legorreta + Legorreta.
The Hotel will count a spa with multiple pools, 2 restaurants, one multipurpose room, a convention center and a parking lot for 200 cars.
The new complex will be a Mixed-Used space, it will be formed by 17 buildings distributed as follows: 60% (12 buildings) as housing, specially designed for young adults, young couples and grown up couples. 30% of the project will be for offices, located in four buildings, generating a corporative pole in the city, offices will count with independent and controlled accesses, but at the same coexisting with the housing zone. The remaining 10% will be for retail spaces, establishing coffee shops, restaurants, boutiques, and gourmet stores that can support the needs of the neighbors.
The Housing Complex will have 3 exterior pools and one roofed (with the possibility of opening it), a gym, a spa, a food court, a small market and, as the Hotel, a 200 cars capacity parking lot.
The number of levels of the buildings varies from 9 to 50, always according to the City's construction regulation. Parking is projected beneath all along the site, developed in 8 underground levels achieving 15,700 parking spaces. Complex is designed in three great lots, conformed by two internal streets, besides of serving as access ramps to the parking first underground level, seek for distribute in an efficient way the vehicles load inside the complex with out damaging the streets that surround the place. A third internal street will be developed along the south side to reinforce the access facilities of the urban scheme. Because of the great dimensions of the project, Polearea will be developed in three different phases, inviting different national and international architectural firms to incorporate their architecture as individuals to each of the buildings, but always considering the Master Plan guidelines to assure that the complex is always integrated and unified.
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KonaHouse House Kona Client: N/A
The house was mainly designed on one level to stay in close contact with the site. From the street, an access tower can be viewed which leads to an interior patio with a big water mirror and an inverted black lava pyramid. With this design, the patio becomes a sculptural space. From here, you can go to the main space that is the social area, the living room and the dining room, or, can go to an apartment that consists of a living room, a dining room, a little kitchen, a bedroom and a bathroom, or to stairs that take you to one of the bedrooms of the upper floor. From the patio, because of the relation between the interior and exterior areas, the Pacific Ocean can be watched through the living room and a terrace. The living room is a space of great height that is characterized by its curved ceiling that seems to be floating. From there, you can enter, towards the left, to the master bedroom, an office and two guestrooms, one of them floating on a black lava water mirror and the other, in a second level, with a terrace that enjoys the views to the maximum. Through a gallery you arrive to a pool with a purple colored vault. The water, in its different representations, water mirrors, pools and sea, is always included in the design.
Location: HA, USA
For the interior of the house, several pieces were imported from Mexico: the stone for the floors, stone tables, washbasins, onix lamps, as well as other elements.
Size: 17,400 Sqft
The process of design and construction was very stimulating. Legorreta + Legorreta enjoyed working with a great team, American specialists of all the disciplines, achieving a house of an impressive quality.
Date of Completion: 2005
One of the most valuable elements of this process was the great friendship that settled down with the clients.
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The house is located in the middle of a black lava desert on the northwest coast of an island called "Big Island" in Hawaii. From the site of the house, wonderful views of the Pacific Ocean can be enjoyed. The clients, a couple of Americans in love with the Mexican contemporary architecture and the work of Legorreta + Legorreta since many years, contacted us to design their rest house. In the design process, the views, the contact with the sea and the nature had great importance, as well as the relation between the interior and the exterior. For those reasons, the house is characterized by its simplicity, its patios, as well as the use of the water in pools and water mirrors.
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Located on a 4.9 acre site in the town of Avandaro, Valle de Bravo, the house is facing south to take advantage of the views and the sunlight. The arrival to the house is by a paved road that runs through a lemon orchard ending at a circular motor court of 60 feet in diameter. From this point, stairs lead through the water patio designed as a space of respite before entering the house. Adjacent to the patio there is a covered walkway which divides it from the flowered garden beyond. The house´s interior is articulated longitudinally so that the private spaces are separated into two levels; the first level is occupied by the daughters' rooms and in the second level there is the master bedroom where more privacy is achieved.
Client: N/A Location: Valle de Bravo, Mexico Size: 10,225 sqft Date of Completion: La Colorada: 1995 Architecture: LEGORRETA + LEGORRETA Ricardo Legorreta Victor Legorreta Noe Castro Associate Architect: Chavez y Vigil Arquitectos Interiors: LEGORRETA + LEGORRETA Structural Design: Ricardo Camacho
The living space is located at the center of the longitudinal axis. Since this is the most important space, it is emphasized with an inclined cover that is supported by wood armoires.
Mechanical Design: Hubard Instalaciones
A few years later, as designed La Coloradita (a smaller house in the same site) within the same spirit of La Colorada.
Photographer: Lourdes Legorreta
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“LaPurificadora” Purificadora” “La BoutiqueHotel Hotel Boutique
Located in the city of Puebla and belonging to the Master Plan “Paseo San Francisco”, the Boutique Hotel has colonial heritage and is registered as historical patrimony, which must be respected and included as part of the new design project. The building used to be an ice factory where the water was bottled and purified. Taking this into consideration, the Boutique hotel also called “Hotel La Purificadora” was designed with the following facilities: 26 guestrooms, reception-shop, restaurant-bar, kitchen, ballrooms for events, patio with a 4-floor-height, meeting rooms, offices, and cave. The amenities include a pool, terrace for events, gym, jacuzzi, massage and a steam room.
2007 *Honor Award 2007, Interior Design Category from AIA 2008 *Hospitality Design Award 2008, from Hospitality Design Magazine. *International Architecture Award 2008, Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture & Design *Silver Medal at T ourism Category at the X Mexican Architecture Biennial 2008 Client: Plus Arrendamientos Location: Puebla, Mexico Size: 32,290 Sqft 2007
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Architecture: LEGORRETA + LEGORRETA Ricardo Legorreta Victor Legorreta Miguel Almaraz Adriana Ciklik Carlos Vargas Associate Architect: Serrano Monjaraz Arquitectos Interior Design: LEGORRETA + LEGORRETA Serrano Monjaraz Arquitectos CENTRO
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The project consists of a large lateral patio which is surrounded by a L-shape building in each level: on the ground floor, working as a living room, it is a prolongation of the height of the restaurant-bar and the reception-shop; in 2nd and 3rd floor, is an empty space that separates the circulations from the rooms and on the 4th floor limiting the amenities zone. The height of the patio is partially covered by a rooftop. The facades have the same treatment as the old buildings, extending plaster and stone in all the height of them.
Art: Laureana Toledo Structural Design:
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Electrical, Hidro-sanitary , air conditioning and special systems: Proyectos de Ingeniería Eléctrica y Sistemas Automatizados S.A. de CV. Photographs: Navarro
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The Labyrintof of the the The Labyrint Sciencesand andthe the Arts Arts Sciences Museum Museum Client: State Government / Papalote Museo del Niño
Location: Parque Tangamanga, San Luis Potosí, México. Date of Completion: September 2008 Size: 96,875 Sqft
The museum design achieves a building that belongs to San Luis Potosi’s environment and culture, avoiding fashions and stridence. Located in Tangamanga National Park it gets integrated to the context not only because of its colors and dimensions but because is concept remains the old haciendas of the State. It is developed around a big labyrinth patio. The visitor's path is made through porticos that are surrounding this patio, making diversified and mysterious access towards different pavilions; those have several shapes and orientations, so each one has its own personality and environment. The access is made through a patio with a tree garden area in which groups of visitors organize themselves. The lobby is a high tower that clearly shows the entrance and acts as a space distributing circulations, to the labyrinth patio, to the shop and lunch area. At the same time allows a direct access to the temporal exhibitions area and multi purpose activities space. The natural light, the gardens and external spaces are very important design elements achieving the integration of the museum with the park and with outdoors activities such as workshops, auditorium and semi-covered areas. The walls are covered with stones from the San Luis Potosi state, and the roofs are treated as gardens with local vegetation so that the visitors know and promote the huge diversity and possibilities of the site flora.
Architecture: LEGORRETA + LEGORRETA Ricardo Legorreta Victor Legorreta Noe Castro Miguel Almaraz Adriana Ciklik Carlos Vargas Interiors: LEGORRETA + LEGORRETA Exhibition: Papalote Museo del Niño Structure: Colinas de Buen Electrical: Cien Acres Lightning: Arquitectura de la Luz Landscape: Luis Zarate / Saúl Alcántara / Alejandro de Ávil LEGORRETA + LEGORRETA Photographer: Allen Vallejo Courtesy: Gob del Edo de San Luis
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Metropolitan Cathedral MetropolitanofCathedral Managua 1994 “Religious Architecture Award� W ashington D.C., USA. Client: Catholic congregation of Managua
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Once in a lifetime experiences leave a lasting memory on people, the Metropolitan Cathedral of Managua is one of them. Under the decisive promotion and support of Mr. Tom Monaghan the Cathedral became much more than a building, it became the symbol of faith of a suffering country, the effort of the true Catholic people, the devotion of a Cardinal and the hope of Humanity. Without the typical design process that goes through program study, approval committees and public presentations, the Cathedral was designed and built driven by human and spiritual values, with the goal of offering the Nicaraguans a place of hope, love and prayer. In 1972 an earthquake destroyed Managua and with it the Cathedral, making it impossible to restore. The new Cathedral is located in the upper part of the city on a 29 acres site. It is not only the substitution of the old one but also the new center of Managua. The design philosophy responds to the concept that the contemporary Catholic community has passed from a passive role to participation with the ecclesiastic authorities, therefore the physical distance and architectural integration between the altars and the parochial obey to this concept. For the same reasons the highest dome is located at the center of the congregation.
Location: Managua, Nicaragua Size: 30,600 Sqft Date of completion: 1993 Architecture: LEGORRETA ARQUITECTOS Ricardo Legorreta Victor Legorreta Noe Castro Miguel Almaraz Francisco Vivas Associate Architect: Jose Teran Project Management: Jose Teran; Natex Co. Executive Architect: Langdon Wilson Associates Structural Design: Walter P. Moore Mechanical Design: Lamsa Ingenieros Co. Electrical Design: Ing. Enrique Hernandez Photographer: Lourdes Legorreta
The design gives the solemnity that the Cathedral needs without monumentalism and ostentation, so an adequate scale is created for a space in which the human being will feel in peace and joy when he or she is alone, in small groups or in a large celebration. The 63 domes provide natural light and ventilation sources. The activities that take place in the Cathedral are of four kinds: Two or three times a year the Cardinal celebrates Mass from the exterior altar that sits above the main door to large concentrations of approximately 100,000 people who gather in the esplanade. The periodic ceremonies take place in the main nave (150' x 40') with capacity for one thousand people. The daily mass is celebrated in the "Santisimo Chapel" with an area of 1,700 square feet. The scale and illumination of this space provide the intimacy of the daily Eucharistic celebration. Finally, the venerated image of the "Sangre de Cristo" is located in a dedicated circular chapel of 40 Ft diameter. Because of its shape and illumination, candle light and color is an adequate frame for such spiritual objective. The chiseled concrete responds to the spiritual and brave way of being of the country. The floor designed as a colored carpet of geometrical forms is made out of hand-made concrete tiles; doors and benches are of native wood. Overall the building represents the culture and climate of Nicaragua, and pays homage to the people that have suffered deeply but maintain their faith and courage.
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Located at the main corner of Monterrey's Macro Plaza and next to the Cathedral and the City Hall, the Museum has been integrated to the urban landscape inspired by the traditional plan of Mexican house, where a central courtyard is surrounded by a series of arcades that subsequently give access to galleries. The pedestrian access is through a small plaza where a giant dove by sculptor Juan Soriano offers a nostalgic homage to Luis Barragán. From this plaza and through discrete doors, one can access the vestibule which with its great height, color and light serves as a link to the auditorium, cafeteria and store. After experiencing a sculptural lattice, one arrives to a magnificent covered central courtyard that besides being both a central element and distributor of galleries, is used for concerts, dinners and other meetings. Daily, just about every 15 minutes the central courtyard is covered by a 2 inch flow of water which energizes and refreshes the environment.
1992 Gold Medal and Grand Award at the Second Mexican Biennial of Architecture, Mexico City . 1995 Design Award from the "Asian Pacific Desig Award Program" Location Monterrey, N.L., Mexico Size: 215,000 sqft Date of Completion: 1991 Client: Trust Fund, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Architecture: LEGORRETA ARQUITECTOS Ricardo Legorreta Noe Castro Joaquín Pineda Interiors: LEGORRETA ARQUITECTOS Carlos Villela Erika Krayer
The art exhibit takes place in a natural environment in different galleries of different proportions, forms, color and heights. Strategically situated, windows provide sources of natural light and keep the visitor in touch with the city and the central patio.
Photographer: Lourdes Legorreta
This criteria offers surroundings more in tune with daily life and makes the museum a cultural center as well as an occasional visit by the local citizens of Monterrey. The materials and intense colors complement the informal and elegant character of the building.
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Hacienda Matao Hacienda Matao
The property is located at the contiguous land of Matao county in Sao Paulo, Brazil. It is surrounded by 35,000 acres of orange plantations, rubber trees and coffee plantations. The arrival is from a road that connects with the highway and with the hangar located inside the property, it is surrounded by creaking bamboos that will crate a mystic vault effect, this road goes through a security gate and leads to an elliptical roundabout that serves as a car drop off and leads to the main entrance.
Client: N/A
The Hacienda's concept is to have different pavilions linked by an open arcade; they are grouped in Master suites, children's and guests bedrooms, common areas, including living, dinning, libraries, gym, pools, terraces, BBQ, movie theater and service areas. Each pavilion was designed to have its own identity; circulation between them is through courtyards, terraces, and views to the landscape gardens. The program is completed by sports area, including a football court, a tennis court, a squash court and a labyrinth.
Location: Sao Paulo, Brazil
It is a one storie building that takes advantage of the property's extension; the roof is used as a terrace and as a walkway for views.
Size: 37,674 Sqft
The interior circulations become exterior pads to walk along the property though the variety of landscape, having a strong relation with this beautiful site.
Date of Completion: 2005 Architecture: LEGORRETA + LEGORRETA Ricardo Legorreta Victor Legorreta Noe Castro Miguel Almaraz Adriana Ciklik Carlos Vargas Paloma Vergara Executive Architect: Ricardo Lemos Furtado Structural Design: Aluzio A.M. D’Avila Engenharia de Proyectos Contractor: Metodo, MartĂn Miguel Daniel Photographer: Cristiano Mascaro
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Max Palevsky ResidentialHalls halls Max Palevsky Residential UniversityOf ofChicago Chicago University Client: University of Chicago
The program was distributed in three main buildings, each one having a different personality. The one in the Northwestern corner has a closed atrium where we placed the main public areas. The large second one, contrasts with the different library volumes, which have their main entrance responding to the street axis. The third one, on the eastern side of the block, is placed around the main garden. We studied the entrances in accordance to the actual pedestrian circulation on campus, and related them to the future buildings. The Client had a program draft in regards of their necessities, but the challenge we faced in this particular project was achieving a first class dormitory facility, with a very tight budget and a not very clear idea of what the University and the students really needed. From our first meeting with the University, we told them that we felt the budget was unrealistic, based on similar projects we had done recently. We started with the draft given by the Client but once we started with some conceptual ideas it came clear to all team members that the program was going to take shape during the design process. The total area of the project increases from 216,000 sqft to 271,500 sqft; the price was increased from $142 USD per sqft to $169 USD per sqft based on the fact that the original budget did not considered some major issues like utilities relocation, a basement floor for service areas and some mayor security issues. Another factor why the cost was higher is the good situation on the construction market, at that time that made the escalation increased more than in the principal thought budget worked several months together with the Client, Constructor Manager, Engineers, the Executive Architect & Landscape Architect to adjust as much as possible the total building cost to the initial budget.
Location: Chicago, IL, USA Size: 242,200 sqft Date of Completion: 2001 Architecture: LEGORRETA + LEGORRETA Ricardo Legorreta Victor Legorreta Noe Castro Miguel Almaraz Adriana Ciklik Carlos Vargas Victor Figueroa Xavier Sรกnchez Executive Architect : VOA Architects Interiors : LEGORRETA + LEGORRETA Nature of the W ork: Programming, Architectural & Interiors Photographer: Lourdes Legorreta
We designed a building strongly related in scale and materials to the old gothic buildings in the surroundings, but at the same time sought a contemporary solution. The challenge was urban and architectural. The concept lies in constructing the walkways and corners, creating an envelope around the library, in order to create a series of patios that are related scale wise to the old buildings. The result is a series of open spaces with different scales, which attract the attention toward the campus and which give a different character to the residential halls.
In regards to the timetable, the construction was finished on schedule, but the construction drawings where finished during the Construction Administration phase in order to be able to incorporate all the program & specs changes; the MEP engineer drawings were used as design built instead of GMP. The Project Delivery Method was based on a Guaranteed Maximum price by a Construction Manager based on Design Development drawings. The architectural and structural construction documents were delivered in multiple permit, bid and construction packages. The mechanical, electrical and plumbing documents were completed as Design Built from the design development set. It took 36 months to conclude the program, design & build the buildings.
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MonteMonte Tauro House House Tauro
The house has been designed for the requirements of contemporary lifestyle of a single person in an urban environment. Most of the time the arrival is done by car so the garage is more a vestibule than a conventional garage; through ingenious platforms it is possible to park four cars, two on top of the others. The central space faces a courtyard with a fountain, a tree and red earth floor offering the right environment for conversation, reading, working and eating with flexibility and privacy. A narrow stair gives access to the exercise room, resembling a courtyard with a sliding glass roof and views towards magnificent trees on the street. In this space exercise, swimming, showering and bath take place in an informal, simple and elegant way.
Client: N/A Location: Mexico City Size: 3,767 Sqft Date of Completion: 1997 Architecture: LEGORRETA + LEGORRETA Ricardo Legorreta Victor Legorreta Noe Castro Benjamin Gonzalez MEP Design: Ing. Hector Nieto Photographer: Lourdes Legorreta
The four walls of the bedroom are covered with shelves and closets, filled with books and objects of daily use. The bed and reading sofa complete the furniture. Natural and artificial light offer a variety of effects through shutters, painted glass windows and lamps. Nothing in the house is decoration; all the objects are part of the daily life. Space, color and light are used to create a romantic and spiritual retreat that protects from the chaotic urban life of the big city.
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House in Morumbi House in Morumbi Client: NA Location: Morumbi Sao Paulo, Brasil Size: 7,104 sqft Date of Completion : 2007
The site is located on a hill side overlooking the city of Sao Paulo. The project takes advantage of the natural site grading, creating spectacular views and keeping a sense of privacy. The project is divided in 3 levels. All services and car park are on the underground level; pedestrian access from the street is through an open courtyard with native landscape and art that connects with the car park for an everyday use. A stair leads up to the ground floor. The main entry is through a double height gallery as a hall to the public areas on this level such as living room, library, dining room, music room, projection room and kitchen. The gallery's angle opens up to the terrace, exterior dining and pool area. Most of the year this will be the main gathering space of the house. The pool separates the garden from the terrace. A pavilion located in the garden can be used as a den or a guest room. Water is an important element as fountains blend with the pool and link the main structure with the pavilion. Views from the interior spaces on this level were studied to create different environments for each. The stair, towards the upper floor from the gallery, leads to the family room; it has an open terrace overlooking the pool. The roof on this area is an important element of the project as it covers the gallery below and the family room, extending over the terraces on both levels, giving solar protection to the large windows. On the upper floor are placed private and more intimate areas; a bridge over the gallery leads to the master bedroom. The children's bedrooms are distributed around a long vestibule with a glass roof, adjacent to the family room. The house is broken into different volumes linked by the central higher roof. Special interest has been given to integrate indoor and outdoor spaces and views to the beautiful garden and courtyards.
Architecture: Legorreta + Legorreta Ricardo Legorreta Victor Legorreta Noe Castro Miguel Almaraz Adriana Ciklik Carlos Vargas Design T eam: Carlos Barojas Rodrigo Alonso Contractor: Metodo Engenharia Photographer: Cristiano Mascaro
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Multiplazacenter Center Multiplaza Client: Grupo Roble Metrocentro S.A. de C.V. Location: San Salvador, El Salvador Size : 1,646,878 Sqft Date of Completion : 2004 Architecture : LEGORRETA + LEGORRETA Ricardo Legorreta Victor Legorreta Noe Castro Miguel Almaraz Adriana Ciklik Carlos Vargas Project Manager: Victor Figueroa David Figueroa Andres Lozano
The Multiplaza Commercial Center is the first phase of a multifunctional development in the city of San Salvador where areas for commerce, entertainment and services are combined. It looks for a character that identifies with people respecting its identity far away from the concept of Mall. On the other hand, this project represents a big start for the urban and commercial development of the zone. It is located in the periphery of the city of San Salvador and is expected to be an impact on national and regional level. In its exterior as in the interior, this complex offers different space experiences. The understanding is that it is a single building which elements that compose a “whole” that lodges many independent identities. A monumental central body is the tallest building of the complex and is covered by a double skin; an apparent concrete lattice window that envelops a volume of intense pink color. This element works as an urban lamp by night and is recognized as the identity element of the set that contrasts with the surrounding yellow and orange bodies, mixed with burnt red and purple accents. The internal life of the complex is developed around the central body. From the different entrances and towards the perimeter are created different squares and streets that build a circuit in which each intersection is an enclosure always different in geometry, color and elements that identify each square, creating a pause in the route and a meeting point that at the same time works as waiting rooms for the key stores.
Executive Architect: Roble Arquitectos RTKL
These squares, sometimes circular, sometimes orthogonal, with cascades or water mirrors, with columns of water that fall from the highest part and get lost in the infinite, monumental vaults with deliberated natural entrances, long glass walls that join together several commerce in lighting the route as a lamp, and finally the illumination accents deeply studied, make the visit to Multiplaza an experience where the user will enjoy each corner and space since the beginning.
Interiors: Legorreta + Legorreta Roble Arquitectos
On the other hand, this complex offers a whole autonomy of the services areas, and keeps the loading and heavy work areas away from the public zones, without ever bothering the visitors experience.
Contractor: Castaneda-Omni
Finally the terraces, an area that lives towards the outside with certain independence display a variety of restaurants and bars that enjoy of a relaxing environment and the best views towards the volcanoes and surroundings. Developing themselves in closed and opened environments, different volumes offer a chance to join different concepts in a single area without denying their own identity.
Structural Design: · Ing. Guillermo Calderón Ing. Mario Monteagudo Electric Design: Tecnoconsult
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Landscape: Mia Lehrer + Associates Photographers: Lourdes Legorreta Boris Gabay Carlos Lopez
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ParqueEuropa Europa Parque Residential Compound Residential Compoun
The project of 108 protected housing facilities is located next to the barracks of the toll road of Extremadura and is the western door of Madrid. The total area is 73,930 Sqft and the project has been designed in such a way that it creates public spaces and squares in between blocks, as well as housing on different levels with facades of mortar on concrete emphasizing the bright colors. The houses are located far away from the toll road, placing a screen of vegetation with trees and hills to absorb the noise created by traffic. The rooms which are destined to common use will have a view towards the Sierra de Guadarrama, while the dormitories will be placed on the opposite side of the buildings.
2005 Mention at the XIX Prizes of Urbanism, Architecture and Public Work 2006 Silver Medal during the IX Bienal of Mexican Architecture at the category Social Housing
In the interior, there are less structural supports allowing greater liberty for distribution.
Client: Empresa Municipal de la Vivienda de Madrid Location: Madrid, Spain Size: 118,280 Sqft Date of Completion: 2004 Architecture: LEGORRETA + LEGORRETA Ricardo Legorreta Víctor Legorreta Noé Castró Miguel Almaraz Adriana Ciklik Carlos Vargas Associate Architect: Celula Arquitectura Benjamín González Jorge Covarrubias Executive Architect: Aguinaga Y Asociados Arquitectos Contractor: Ortiz Construcciones y Proyectos S.A.
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SanAntonio Antonio San CentralLibrary Library Central 1995
“Imagineer Award� by The Mind Science Foundation
Moving away from the stuffy image of ordinary library facilities, the City of San Antonio wanted a happy building, a building the community would celebrate as its own, and a building that housed state-of-theart technology for information access. In a traditional sense, the challenge of this project was to achieve the best architecture integrated with the library functions and uses. Described by local critics as an "ingenious blending of design and function", the new facility is being compared with the old library: both are places where books are kept. Books remain as a critical element in the new facility, but it has been designed with an appreciation for the other important elements in San Antonio's library facility: architecture, art and technology. The capacity of the library has been doubled with 240,000 square feet with space for up to 750,000 books. The building's geometry of rotated and cut away boxes was largely determined by the way that space needs happened to fit into the site so that people would see the library as friendly, easy and inviting building.
Client: The City of San Antonio
The exterior "is a visual wonderland of shapes, angles and openings that create interplay of light and shadows, both inside and outside the building."
Location: San Antonio, TX, USA
The area is distributed in seven stories, six of them above ground. The main mass is a 6 stories box surrounding a yellow sky lit atrium that serves as a focal point for each floor. Some terraces are accented by large geometric shapes. Triangular and rectangular baffle walls painted purple or yellow on the third floor terraces create sculptural spaces and invite people to go outside. Another terrace in the west is bordered by a slightly raised acequia that drops into a circular pool. Beyond the acequia, stands a grove of palm trees. All the exterior walls were finished with acrylic plaster. At street level, a stone wainscot gives scale to the building.
Size: 240,000 Sqft Date of Completion: 1995 Architecture: LEGORRETA ARQUITECTOS Ricardo Legorreta Victor Legorreta Noe Castro Gerardo Alonso Miguel Almaraz Interiors: LEGORRETA ARQUITECTOS Adriana Olmedo Executive Architect: Johnson - Dempsey & Assoc. Associate Architect: Davis Sprinkle & Robey Architects Project Management: 3d International Photography: Lourdes legorreta
Blending natural light, shadow and geometric figures throughout the new library, a sense of mystery is created. The goal in this project was for visitors to discover something new at each visit, to entice them back again and again. In the design, we also wanted to evoke a sense of freedom, particularly freedom in the use of space. This was accomplished by having the library floors vary in size and shape to give each one a unique personality. The different shapes and sizes will lead the visitor to wonder around the building and its different spaces. Special features for children have been incorporated into the design. Architectural elements and child-size stacks are among the unique features of the third floor "the children's floor". Scaled down furnishings and abundant natural light places, make young people ease in an environment tailored just to their needs. The facility was also planned to accommodate the latest technology. The library's new card catalog is on the cutting edge of computer technology, including a kid's card catalog, Internet access, a search that allows access to libraries across the US, and Spanish card catalog.
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House Sonoma House inin sonoma Client: N/A
Located in Northern California, Sonoma is one of those places that has a soul. Its rolling hills, the light and the sense of amplitude together with intimacy call for a special kind of architecture. The first task for this house was to locate it in such a wonderful property. The owners and Legorreta + Legorreta wanted a spectacular location without being imposing. The second task was to maintain the masses in scale both with the landscape as well as with the human. Taking advantage of the necessary levels and layout of the access road the arrival is mysterious and spectacular. Once inside life takes place around a courtyard open only in one side of the view.
Location: Sonoma,California Size: 11,947 Sqft. Date of Completion: 1993 Architecture: LEGORRETA ARQUITECTOS Ricardo Legorreta Victor Legorreta Noe Castro Gerardo Alonso Executive Associate: ROBINSON MILLS & WILLIAMS Structural Design: Jack Lews Structural Design Engineers Electrical Design: Derose Y Slopey Mechanical Design: George Lim G.m Lim & Associates Landscape: Fernando Carucho
The spaces are designed to house the excellent art collection, but not as a gallery but as part of the daily and family life. The design is the result of a beautiful and successful collaboration of the architects and the owners that has made both parts very happy with the result. Special consideration was given to the integration of architecture with nature and the new trees and plants were selected and located to blend with the walls.
Contractor: Bill Maudru Cello & Maudru Construction,co
Also, special attention was given to the color selection. Due to the light in Sonoma the house changes color during the day as well as in different seasons.
Photographer: Lourdes Legorreta
All in all, the design intention was that the house pays homage to the landscape adding beauty and presence to the site.
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SotograndeHouse House Sotogrande
The project was developed around a central patio and has two stories. On the ground floor are located the public and services spaces. On the first floor are the main bedrooms and the guest room. A game of volumes around the central empty space is developed alternating full and empty spaces, light and shadow, with areas partially covered and additional elements of water that integrate themselves within the architecture. The concentration of the construction is towards the center of the patio, leaving all around the perimeter large gardened spaces, creating different ambiances in each place. From the bedrooms of the upper floor, you can enjoy the best views towards the golf course and Mediterranean Sea.
“Best Architecture (Single Unit) in Spain 2008" – European Property Awards, CNBC Location: Size:
Sotogrande, Spain
7,100 Sqft
Date of Completion
2004
Architecture: LEGORRETA + LEGORRETA Ricardo Legorreta Victor Legorreta Noe Castro Miguel Almaraz Adriana Ciklik Carlos Vargas
The access is through a corridor that gets to the pool passing by the area of the living room and the dining room. From this corridor, another corridor leads to a studio with its private patio and gymnasium. Climbing the stairs you get to the main bedrooms, each one with its own dressing room and bathroom. The guest area has a little living room with a small kitchen on the lower floor and a bedroom with its bathroom on the upper floor. The services area includes a garage for two cars, the kitchen with a storage area, a cave, a laundry room. The living room and the dining room are opened towards the central patio and the living room has its own fountain and chimney. The pool has a fountain which makes the water go until its principal level. On one side, you can find a terrace and a basement with the machine room. The house is made of stone cladding with a concrete structure. The floor is made of travertine Turkish marble or wood. The pool has a Mexican Venetian mosaic tiles design with a color specially created for this project.
Team: Rodrigo Ducoing Associate
Architect:
Francisco Cortina
Executive Architect: Javier Román Electric Design:
Bezal
Mechanical Design: George Lim G.m Lim & Associates Contractor: Bill Maudru Cello & Maudru Construction,co. Photographer: Andreas von Eisendel
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Texas A&M A&M Texas Engineering College College Engineering Client: Qatar Foundation and Qatar Petroleum Location: Doha, Qatar Size: 592,000 sqft Date of Completion: 2007 Architecture: LEGORRETA + LEGORRETA Ricardo Legorreta VĂctor Legorreta NoĂŠ Castro Miguel Almaraz Adriana Ciklik Carlos Vargas Project Manager: Patricia Siesler Executive Architect and Engineers: Halcrow Consulting Engineers and Architects Limited
Campus QATAR
The Qatar Foundation Education City is an exciting and ambitious project spearheading by Sheika Mozah, the second wife of the Emir. It will be the keystone for future educational projects in the Middle East and other parts of the world. The Education City will be composed of various unique buildings designed by architects selected from around the world. At the moment most of them have yet to be built. The Master plan, designed by Arata Isosaki, is a harmonious blend of architecture and exterior spaces. The main feature are the Green Spines crossing from north to south as well as from east to west. Legorreta + Legorreta was selected to design the Texas A&M Engineering College, the Carnegie Mellon Business and Computer Science College, the School of Foreign Service as well as the Student Centre. The Texas A&M Engineering College, consists of two main buildings, an Academic Quadrangle and a Research Octagon. The Academic Quadrangle houses four engineering faculties (Chemistry, Mechanical, Electrical and Petroleum) and is designed around four courtyards. The common areas like the library and student facilities are located in a 82 feet high central tower. The central tower is connected by office arms with the Quadrangle. The main entrance is announced by another 82 feet high monumental tower located on the east side of the Academic Quadrangle. Lecture Halls and Classrooms are designed as figurative elements connecting at the north and the south with the Academic Quadrangle. The Research building consists of four laboratory wings that are designed around a large open atrium. Offices are located around the perimeter of this atrium to allow easy interaction.
Both buildings are connected by a link atrium featuring a series of bridges and vertical circulation. A lower floor houses all technical rooms. The design of the courtyards and public spaces enhances the interaction between students and faculty staff. Circulations stimulate movement around the building and informal meeting spaces are created. Traditional concepts of Islamic architecture such as arcades, courtyards and fountains are integrated in the project.
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TelevisaSanta Santa Fe Fe Televisa offices offices Client: Televisa
Location:
Location: Mexico City, Mexico
The project is located in the development zone of Santa Fe. The Master Plan of Santa Fe (650 ha) has been designed in two phases by Legorreta + Legorreta. It includes several corporate offices, the biggest shopping center in Latin America, educational centers and exclusive residential areas, as well as mixed use spaces and large landscaped areas. In this Master Plan Televisa corporate offices were conceived with flexibility and providing an individuality to each building. The access is via Vasco de Quiroga Avenue, both pedestrian and cars arrive through an open plaza. The office area (495,140 Sqft) is divided into 5 buildings of 4 levels, connected by a portico that links each building's vestibule which is connected to the elevators, stairs, restrooms and service areas of each building. Each building has its own personality in shape and proportion, which apart of offering great occupancy flexibility makes all areas different. This allows the building to function as a whole corporate enterprise or as a complex with various owners but nevertheless retaining its character.
Size: 495,140 Sqft Date of Completion: 1998 Architecture: LEGORRETA + LEGORRETA Ricardo Legorreta Victor Legorreta Noe Castro Project Manager: Juan Carlos Nolasco Interiors: LEGORRETA + LEGORRETA Adriana Olmedo Structural Design: Dirac Electric Design: Hubard & Burlon Hidraulic Design: Inrasa
All office areas are designed to have sunlight, a view to vast landscaped areas and state of the art communications. The architectonic solution of the project provides each building with elegance, humanism and efficiency, therefore achieving an optional work ambiance.
Contractor: Gutsa
The project has 3 parking lots with a total capacity of 1860 cars (1,248,610 Sqft) beneath the plaza and buildings. The parking lots height allows for a natural lateral illumination which eliminates the sensation of being in a basement.
Photographer: Lourdes Legorreta
This complex is equipped with 2 treatment plants and a general maintenance area of 28,000 Sqft. The complex is intended to be the symbol of a first class Mexican building worthy of contemporary Mexico.
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UCSF UCSF CommunityCenter Center Community Client: University of California in San Francisco
Topped by a dramatic skylight that allow natural light into the building, the atrium serves as an orienting point, assembling the different spaces and helping the users to establish a visual connection within the building. The first floor is formed by different program uses: the main food services which face directly towards the green, the fitness center which faces the tennis courts, the game room and the library; are all structured around the atrium. Connected to the first floor by a grand stair, the second floor has an indoor pool with locker rooms for both men and women, student services, office space and an auditorium which is capable of seating 400 people and sub-dividable if necessary into small break out rooms.
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA Size: 156,860 Sqft Date of Completion:
The diverse program combines such facilities as a fitness complex, a conference center with an auditorium for 400 people, a gymnasium with basketball and volleyball courts, swimming pools (one indoor and the others outdoors), dining and food facilities, offices and retail space, all of which are organized around an atrium.
The third floor accommodates another part of the student services; this area primarily serve basic needs of the academic community like the student health center. On the fourth floor, the building combines different program areas such as the gymnasium, racket ball and squash courts.
2005
Architecture: LEGORRETA + LEGORRETA Ricardo Legorreta Victor Legorreta Noe Castro Miguel Almaraz Adriana Ciklik Carlos Vargas Design T eam: Juan Carlos Nolasco Gabriel Merino Alejandro Danel Noe Baez Executive Architect: MBT Architecture Structural Engineer: Forell/ Elsesser Electrical Design: Glumac Landscape: Peter Walker & Partners General Constractor: Hensel-Phelps Photographer: Lourdes Legorreta
A high quality campus life promotes optimal learning and efficient work performance, enhances the recruitment and retention of faculty staff and students, and makes the campus a desirable place to work, learn and visit. Located in one of the largest developments of San Francisco, the UCSF Mission Bay Campus Community Center has been conceived to be the heart of the campus, where students, faculty and community come together to enjoy, socialize and interact. Projected to have about 2000 people in the first phase and about 9100 when completed, the fourstorie 156,000 gross sqft building combine a variety of uses in a single structure.
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Zocalo Zocalo ResidentialCompound Compound Residential Client: Housing Solutions Location: Santa Fe, NM, USA
This residential compound is located at the North end of Santa Fe. It is formed by 350 units, a Club House, a Spa, retails and play areas. Small units with superior quality finishes and spaces are divided in town homes, executive town homes and condominiums. The overall plan is very sensitive to the site's topography, respecting natural ravines and ridges, giving the complex the feeling of an old “pueblo�, where you can walk through common spaces having always visual contact with nature. The main access is in the South side of the site, where the Club House, retails and mailboxes are located. Town homes are aligned along the roads. Even though they have spectacular views, they still keep their intimacy. Cloisters are formed by small groups of executive town homes, with a common patio giving privacy. Condominiums are concentrated on the North side of the site, surrounding a park. Common and private areas are specially landscaped, leaving the rest of the site with its native vegetation. The unit mix refers to the market demand in Santa Fe.
Size: 492,534 Sqft Date of Completion: Phase 1: 2002 Phase 2: 2005 Phase 3: 2006 Phase 4: 2008 Architecture: LEGORRETA + LEGORRETA Ricardo Legorreta Victor Legorreta Noe Castro Miguel Almaraz Adriana Ciklik Carlos Vargas Irene Pedroza Monica Ruiz Executive Architect: Dekker / Perich / Sabatini Land Planner: Richard Gorman & Associates, Inc. Civil Engineer: Tierra Engineering Consultants, Inc. Landscape Architecture: In Situ Photographer: Lourdes Legorreta
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