Guadalajara offers "extraordinary opportunities" for young architects
Guadalajara is emerging as Mexico's architecture hotspot, as young firms forgo Mexico City for better chances to test ideas and stand out. More
Guadalajara is emerging as Mexico's architecture hotspot, as young firms forgo Mexico City for better chances to test ideas and stand out. More
A brick volume containing a games room balances on steel beams that raise it above the sloping plot of this house in the Mexican city of Zapopan (+ slideshow). More
A spindly crucifix-like frame supports a huge window overlooking a patio inside this Mexican residence by architect Abraham Cota Paredes (+ slideshow). More
A white-rendered concrete screen extends from the upper floor of this house near Guadalajara, Mexico, blocking views to the street but framing a perspective of the garden and sky (+ slideshow). More
Architect Delfino Lozano used simple materials to reduce the cost of rebuilding of this house in Zapopan, Mexico, which also features a storage area slotted under its staircase (+ slideshow). More
Estudio ALA created this open-air chapel with a tall brick tower for staff at a tequila factory in the Mexican countryside (+ slideshow). More
A grid of louvred doors and shutters form the exterior of this model-making workshop in Guadalajara, Mexico, allowing enough natural ventilation to prevent dangerous fumes from building up inside (+ slideshow). More
Architect Oscar Gutiérrez used bright yellow paintwork to pick out often-overlooked details on the clean white facade of this courtyard house in Mexico. More
Thousands of animal bones line the macabre interior of this restaurant in a refurbished 1940s building in Mexico, by design studio Cadena + Asociados (+ slideshow). More
Mexican studio Atelier ARS has enclosed this white house with latticed shutters behind a stone wall, reinterpreting the traditional local architecture of Mexico's Lake Chapala (+ slideshow). More
Swiss architects HHF have designed a spiral lookout point for a pilgrimage route near Guadalajara in Mexico. More