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Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe and Felix Candela's Industrial Buildings

The Bacardi buildings of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Félix Candela are located in the Greater Mexico City, Mexico. This site was added to the UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List on 20 November 2001 in the Cultural category.

building

built

1958-1961

Greater Mexico City, State of Mexico, Mexico

Industrial complex

industrial building factory steel concrete Industrial complex

Steel Concrete

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Bureaus

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Architects

People attached to this work in the current corpus

Architect

Felix Candela

1910-1997 · Mexico City, Mexico City, Mexico

Role: architect

Primary contributor

Felix Candela was a Spanish-Mexican architect and engineer celebrated for thin-shell concrete structures that reshaped postwar architecture in Mexico.

Bureaus

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Bureau

Felix Candela

studio · Mexico City, Mexico City, Mexico

Role: designer

Primary bureau

Felix Candela extends the saved.archi corpus with a bureau lens across shell roofs, churches, arenas, and industrial structures in Mexico.

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