The Architect · Alejandra · Mexico City
Palacio de Bellas Artes
The joke of this building is that it changed styles mid-build: Porfirian marble outside, machine-age Deco within. I read it as the moment Mexico's taste turned over.
A marble Art Nouveau shell by Boari that took thirty years to finish, hiding a full-blown Art Deco interior — two eras stacked in one building.
— Alejandra, The Architect
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