Thought as a point of social cohesion, the building has a microcersería on the ground floor; On the first level, a coffee-bar with a view to a channel. It also has a restaurant that serves the four beers made by the company. The upper floors house a Contemporary Art Gallery where works by renowned Japanese and international artists are exhibited. The main and most striking element of the building are Four illuminated prisms that are part of the facade and that transform it into an interesting lighthouse within the chaos of the city.
Mexican Stock Exchange | Juan José Díaz Infante
Probably one of the most representative buildings of the Paseo de la Reforma and Mexican postmodernism. This project, designed by The architect Juan José Díaz Infante and the engineer Leonardo ZeevaertIt has more than seven thousand crystals in blue and black tones, and with a formality that masterfully breaks with the style of the time.
Díaz Infante is known for his Revolutionary and controversial ideas With respect to the role of architecture in contemporary life of the second half of the twentieth century in large cities, as well as in the use of innovative materials. For him, architecture is a science and, coupled with the texts and postulates of Buckminster Fulleradvocated more practical and functional constructive processes, with the maximum «Less matter, higher speed».
Vanna Venturi House | Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown
Robert Venturi was one of the architects he took Postmodernism to theory Thanks to the books «Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture» and «Learning from Las Vegas» in which he exposes His critic and architectural thinking towards modern architecture and the transcendental role of a background change in architectural design.
In the project, Vanna Venturi Housedesigned and built for his mother, many of the elements of the house are a direct reaction against modernist architectural premises: The inclined cover instead of the flat, the emphasis on the central fireplace, a closed ground floor «firmly put on the ground» instead of the modernist columns and the glass walls that open the ground floor; In this way, The house represents the rupture and total contradiction with modernism.