The Architect · Alejandra · Mexico City
Downtown Mexico
This is how you touch a historic building: old cantera left raw, clean modern inserts beside it, so you read four hundred years at once. The rooftop pool over the Centro is the reward.
A 1600s colonial palace turned hotel and shop courtyard — where new steel and glass are inserted against original cantera without pretending to be old.
— Alejandra, The Architect
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