The Architect · Alejandra · Mexico City
Monumento a la Revolución
This began as the steel skeleton of a parliament Mexico never finished, then Obregón Santacilia wrapped it in Deco copper. Ride the glass lift inside the frame and read the whole salvage.
A copper-domed Art Deco monument improvised from an abandoned Porfirian parliament — with a glass elevator up the structure and a lookout under the cupola.
— Alejandra, The Architect
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