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Musevi by Ten Arquitectos, Villahermosa
Museo Elevado de Villahermosa - or Musevi, as it is nicknamed - is the lynchpin of an ambitious, three-pronged plan to reinvigorate the city and reclaim its traffic-clogged artery, Paseo Tabasco, for pedestrians and cyclists. Suspended above the road from a central core and hovering above a lake, the exhibition space is encased in perforated metal. The structure's curved spine and teeth-like columns give it more than a passing resemblance to the alligators lurking in the water below.
Accessed via ramps and stairs, Musevi connects two recently rejuvenated parks. It plays host to a revolving exhibition programme and at its feet is an outdoor amphitheatre, bringing back social gathering to this central strip of Villahermosa once more. Phase two and three of Ten Arquitectos' masterplan - set to cost a cool $20m - include one kilometre of new streetscape, energy-saving lighting, lake-shore improvement and gardens, in place of derelict buildings and other urban detritus. Villahermosa's mayor Jesus Ali hopes that by improving the infrastructure and pedestrian environment, the project - named Paseo de las Ilusiones (Walk of Illusions) - will also encourage more development in the area.
Photography: Luis Gordoa
Musevi by Ten Arquitectos, Villahermosa
Museo Elevado de Villahermosa - or Musevi, as it is nicknamed - is the lynchpin of an ambitious, three-pronged plan to reinvigorate the city and reclaim its traffic-clogged artery, Paseo Tabasco, for pedestrians and cyclists. Suspended above the road from a central core and hovering above a lake, the exhibition space is encased in perforated metal. The structure's curved spine and teeth-like columns give it more than a passing resemblance to the alligators lurking in the water below.
Accessed via ramps and stairs, Musevi connects two recently rejuvenated parks. It plays host to a revolving exhibition programme and at its feet is an outdoor amphitheatre, bringing back social gathering to this central strip of Villahermosa once more. Phase two and three of Ten Arquitectos' masterplan - set to cost a cool $20m - include one kilometre of new streetscape, energy-saving lighting, lake-shore improvement and gardens, in place of derelict buildings and other urban detritus. Villahermosa's mayor Jesus Ali hopes that by improving the infrastructure and pedestrian environment, the project - named Paseo de las Ilusiones (Walk of Illusions) - will also encourage more development in the area.
Photography: Luis Gordoa
Musevi by Ten Arquitectos, Villahermosa
Museo Elevado de Villahermosa - or Musevi, as it is nicknamed - is the lynchpin of an ambitious, three-pronged plan to reinvigorate the city and reclaim its traffic-clogged artery, Paseo Tabasco, for pedestrians and cyclists. Suspended above the road from a central core and hovering above a lake, the exhibition space is encased in perforated metal. The structure's curved spine and teeth-like columns give it more than a passing resemblance to the alligators lurking in the water below.
Accessed via ramps and stairs, Musevi connects two recently rejuvenated parks. It plays host to a revolving exhibition programme and at its feet is an outdoor amphitheatre, bringing back social gathering to this central strip of Villahermosa once more. Phase two and three of Ten Arquitectos' masterplan - set to cost a cool $20m - include one kilometre of new streetscape, energy-saving lighting, lake-shore improvement and gardens, in place of derelict buildings and other urban detritus. Villahermosa's mayor Jesus Ali hopes that by improving the infrastructure and pedestrian environment, the project - named Paseo de las Ilusiones (Walk of Illusions) - will also encourage more development in the area.
Photography: Luis Gordoa
Musevi by Ten Arquitectos, Villahermosa
Museo Elevado de Villahermosa - or Musevi, as it is nicknamed - is the lynchpin of an ambitious, three-pronged plan to reinvigorate the city and reclaim its traffic-clogged artery, Paseo Tabasco, for pedestrians and cyclists. Suspended above the road from a central core and hovering above a lake, the exhibition space is encased in perforated metal. The structure's curved spine and teeth-like columns give it more than a passing resemblance to the alligators lurking in the water below.
Accessed via ramps and stairs, Musevi connects two recently rejuvenated parks. It plays host to a revolving exhibition programme and at its feet is an outdoor amphitheatre, bringing back social gathering to this central strip of Villahermosa once more. Phase two and three of Ten Arquitectos' masterplan - set to cost a cool $20m - include one kilometre of new streetscape, energy-saving lighting, lake-shore improvement and gardens, in place of derelict buildings and other urban detritus. Villahermosa's mayor Jesus Ali hopes that by improving the infrastructure and pedestrian environment, the project - named Paseo de las Ilusiones (Walk of Illusions) - will also encourage more development in the area.
Photography: Luis Gordoa
Musevi by Ten Arquitectos, Villahermosa
Museo Elevado de Villahermosa - or Musevi, as it is nicknamed - is the lynchpin of an ambitious, three-pronged plan to reinvigorate the city and reclaim its traffic-clogged artery, Paseo Tabasco, for pedestrians and cyclists. Suspended above the road from a central core and hovering above a lake, the exhibition space is encased in perforated metal. The structure's curved spine and teeth-like columns give it more than a passing resemblance to the alligators lurking in the water below.
Accessed via ramps and stairs, Musevi connects two recently rejuvenated parks. It plays host to a revolving exhibition programme and at its feet is an outdoor amphitheatre, bringing back social gathering to this central strip of Villahermosa once more. Phase two and three of Ten Arquitectos' masterplan - set to cost a cool $20m - include one kilometre of new streetscape, energy-saving lighting, lake-shore improvement and gardens, in place of derelict buildings and other urban detritus. Villahermosa's mayor Jesus Ali hopes that by improving the infrastructure and pedestrian environment, the project - named Paseo de las Ilusiones (Walk of Illusions) - will also encourage more development in the area.
Photography: Luis Gordoa
Musevi by Ten Arquitectos, Villahermosa
Museo Elevado de Villahermosa - or Musevi, as it is nicknamed - is the lynchpin of an ambitious, three-pronged plan to reinvigorate the city and reclaim its traffic-clogged artery, Paseo Tabasco, for pedestrians and cyclists. Suspended above the road from a central core and hovering above a lake, the exhibition space is encased in perforated metal. The structure's curved spine and teeth-like columns give it more than a passing resemblance to the alligators lurking in the water below.
Accessed via ramps and stairs, Musevi connects two recently rejuvenated parks. It plays host to a revolving exhibition programme and at its feet is an outdoor amphitheatre, bringing back social gathering to this central strip of Villahermosa once more. Phase two and three of Ten Arquitectos' masterplan - set to cost a cool $20m - include one kilometre of new streetscape, energy-saving lighting, lake-shore improvement and gardens, in place of derelict buildings and other urban detritus. Villahermosa's mayor Jesus Ali hopes that by improving the infrastructure and pedestrian environment, the project - named Paseo de las Ilusiones (Walk of Illusions) - will also encourage more development in the area.
Photography: Luis Gordoa
Amparo Museum by Ten Arquitectos, Puebla
Housed in a block of colonial buildings from the 18th and 19th centuries, the Amparo Museum holds one of the most important collections of Mexican art. Named after the deceased wife of the founder, the museum remains a philanthropic family affair. Today Jose Antonio Alonso (the third generation of the family) and his brothers want to show the collection to a new generation and bring the museum up to date. 'We want to refocus it and create places that are appropriate for the art of our time, as well as older works,' he says.
They enlisted Ten Arquitectos to create a new vestibule, library, auditorium and restaurants, as well as renovate and expand the exhibition space to house the growing collection of contemporary art. But extending catalogued colonial buildings with strict planning restrictions is no easy feat. 'The challenge was in negotiating the old and the new,' says Norten. 'But, standing atop the buildings and admiring the city's domes and cupolas, I realised we had an opportunity.' Norten's vision includes a series of glass volumes protruding skywards, and turning the roof into gardens. 'These elevations will be like the new domes of Puebla. They will be light, transparent and ethereal so that they don't modify the original colonial buildings,' he explains. The museum remains open while the works are done in phases and the whole project is expected to be completed in 2013.
Amparo Museum by Ten Arquitectos, Puebla
Housed in a block of colonial buildings from the 18th and 19th centuries, the Amparo Museum holds one of the most important collections of Mexican art. Named after the deceased wife of the founder, the museum remains a philanthropic family affair. Today Jose Antonio Alonso (the third generation of the family) and his brothers want to show the collection to a new generation and bring the museum up to date. 'We want to refocus it and create places that are appropriate for the art of our time, as well as older works,' he says.
They enlisted Ten Arquitectos to create a new vestibule, library, auditorium and restaurants, as well as renovate and expand the exhibition space to house the growing collection of contemporary art. But extending catalogued colonial buildings with strict planning restrictions is no easy feat. 'The challenge was in negotiating the old and the new,' says Norten. 'But, standing atop the buildings and admiring the city's domes and cupolas, I realised we had an opportunity.' Norten's vision includes a series of glass volumes protruding skywards, and turning the roof into gardens. 'These elevations will be like the new domes of Puebla. They will be light, transparent and ethereal so that they don't modify the original colonial buildings,' he explains. The museum remains open while the works are done in phases and the whole project is expected to be completed in 2013.
Amparo Museum by Ten Arquitectos, Puebla
Housed in a block of colonial buildings from the 18th and 19th centuries, the Amparo Museum holds one of the most important collections of Mexican art. Named after the deceased wife of the founder, the museum remains a philanthropic family affair. Today Jose Antonio Alonso (the third generation of the family) and his brothers want to show the collection to a new generation and bring the museum up to date. 'We want to refocus it and create places that are appropriate for the art of our time, as well as older works,' he says.
They enlisted Ten Arquitectos to create a new vestibule, library, auditorium and restaurants, as well as renovate and expand the exhibition space to house the growing collection of contemporary art. But extending catalogued colonial buildings with strict planning restrictions is no easy feat. 'The challenge was in negotiating the old and the new,' says Norten. 'But, standing atop the buildings and admiring the city's domes and cupolas, I realised we had an opportunity.' Norten's vision includes a series of glass volumes protruding skywards, and turning the roof into gardens. 'These elevations will be like the new domes of Puebla. They will be light, transparent and ethereal so that they don't modify the original colonial buildings,' he explains. The museum remains open while the works are done in phases and the whole project is expected to be completed in 2013.
Amparo Museum by Ten Arquitectos, Puebla
Housed in a block of colonial buildings from the 18th and 19th centuries, the Amparo Museum holds one of the most important collections of Mexican art. Named after the deceased wife of the founder, the museum remains a philanthropic family affair. Today Jose Antonio Alonso (the third generation of the family) and his brothers want to show the collection to a new generation and bring the museum up to date. 'We want to refocus it and create places that are appropriate for the art of our time, as well as older works,' he says.
They enlisted Ten Arquitectos to create a new vestibule, library, auditorium and restaurants, as well as renovate and expand the exhibition space to house the growing collection of contemporary art. But extending catalogued colonial buildings with strict planning restrictions is no easy feat. 'The challenge was in negotiating the old and the new,' says Norten. 'But, standing atop the buildings and admiring the city's domes and cupolas, I realised we had an opportunity.' Norten's vision includes a series of glass volumes protruding skywards, and turning the roof into gardens. 'These elevations will be like the new domes of Puebla. They will be light, transparent and ethereal so that they don't modify the original colonial buildings,' he explains. The museum remains open while the works are done in phases and the whole project is expected to be completed in 2013.
