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Centro Roberto Garza Sada de Arte Arquitectura y Diseño by Tadao Ando
This bulky concrete school of art, design and architecture was completed by Japanese architect Tadao Ando at the University of Monterrey in Mexico and is one of over 300 projects being showcased this...
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Movie: Tadao Ando's art and design school for University of Monterrey
This movie by Mexican film agency Nation tours the school of art, design and architecture that Japanese architect Tadao Ando completed last year at the University of Monterrey in Mexico. The Centro...
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Balconies, terraces and gardens occupy half of IPE House by P+0 Architecture
This home in the Mexican city of Monterrey by P+0 Architecture includes a series of outdoor spaces for entertaining guests and dogs (+ slideshow). The IPE House was designed by P+0 Architecture for...
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Zaha Hadid plans sinuous apartment complex for first project in Mexico
Zaha Hadid Architects has unveiled plans to build a high-density housing development in Monterrey, Mexico, despite having been asked to design a series of high-rise towers (+ movie). For its first...
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Wooden gridshell by Anagrama forms shelves inside a Mexico library
Mexican firm Anagrama has installed a dome of interlocking wood panels at a library in Monterrey, creating bookshelves that arch over a stepped reading area (+ slideshow). Anagrama added the structure...
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Horno 3 by Grimshaw
Grimshaw architects have converted a decommissioned blast furnace into a museum of steel in Monterrey, Mexico. Called Horno 3: Museo del Acero, the project involved converting the 70-metre-high...
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High Park by Rojkind Arquitectos
Construction of this apartment block with a stepped elevation by Mexican firm Rojkind Arquitectos is due to commence this summer in Monterrey, Mexico. The ground and first floors of High Park will...
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Crystalline church by Moneo Brock stands against mountains in Monterrey
Traditional elements like a bell tower are reinterpreted as pointed protrusions in this sculptural church in Monterrey, designed by architecture studio Moneo Brock. The church of El Señor de la...
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Minimalist house by Alberto Campo Baeza and GLR is bathed in "golden light"...
The stark white surfaces that dominate this minimal house in Monterrey, Mexico, are interrupted by a golden wall that elevates the quality of light inside. Designed by Spanish architect Alberto Campo...
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Tatiana Bilbao's Ventura House "grows organically" out from a forested Mexico...
This house by Mexican architect Tatiana Bilbao comprises a cluster of five-sided concrete blocks that emerge from a forested hillside to offer panoramic views towards the city of Monterrey. The family...
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Salón Sociedad bar brings together corporate employees in dark, cosy interior
Black and white tiles, brick arches and wooden furniture all help to create a welcoming ambience at this social space in Monterrey by Mexican studios Communal and OTRA Arquitectura. The...
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Reflective holiday home by Tatiana Bilbao hides among trees in Mexico
Mexican architect Tatiana Bilbao has used mirrored glass, along with rammed earth and clay bricks, to create a vacation home that blends with its wooded site in Monterrey. Los Terrenos, or The...
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Sasaki creates two landmark buildings for Monterrey Tec campus in Mexico
Design studio Sasaki has completed a minimalist white pavilion and a glazed library for a growing university in Monterrey, with terraces that offer generous views of the city. The Instituto Tecnológico...
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S-AR builds tiny concrete chapel La Providencia in Mexico
A steeply pitched roof tops this small concrete and wood chapel that Mexican architecture firm S-AR has built in Monterrey. S-AR built the 7.8-square-metre chapel to accompany an existing church called...
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Cadaval & Solà-Morales creates all-white cubic home in Monterrey
A courtyard with a swimming pool lies at the heart of this inward-facing dwelling in northern Mexico by architecture studio Cadaval & Solà-Morales. Casa Ombra is 608-square-metre house located in...
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Mexican students build low-cost solar lamps from natural waste materials
Six students from the Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey in Mexico have designed low-cost solar lamps made from mud, beans and cactus slime for people living in isolated rural areas with limited...
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Concrete and travertine form minimalist chapel in northern Mexico by WRKSHP
This minimalist chapel outside of Monterrey in northern Mexico by WRKSHP was designed with a limited palette of materials that allow natural light to define the spacious interiors. Fuego Nuevo chapel...
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Práctica Arquitectura uses single material for holiday home near Monterrey
A tall, pyramidal roof tops the main living area of this holiday home in northern Mexico by Práctica Arquitectura, made almost entirely of concrete. Located on a large plot of land in the village of El...
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Edmund Sumner photographs P+0's home of interconnected towers in Northern Mexico
Mexican architecture firm P+0 has completed a home on a steep hillside in Monterrey, using smaller volumes clustered together to form the resident's living spaces, which was captured by photographer...
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Casa Ventura "floats on top of the hill" its built on says Tatiana Bilbao
Mexican architect Tatiana Bilbao explains how her concrete Casa Ventura house responds to the topography of its hilltop site in the latest instalment of Dezeen's Concrete Icons series produced in...
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Elemental references "double condition of castles" for cylindrical home in...
Chilean studio Elemental has created a round concrete house called Casa del Tec outside of Monterrey, Mexico that is the prize of a raffle that funds higher education at the Instituto Tecnológico de...
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Práctica Arquitectura splits red infill home in Mexico with central courtyard
Local studio Práctica Arquitectura has elevated a concrete infill house with a red finish outside of Monterrey, Mexico. Práctica Arquitectura completed the 1,615 square-foot (150-square metre) Casa...
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