Bureau

Felix Candela

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

studio

1997

Mexico City, Mexico City, Mexico

Sacred Building Sacred Space Hotel Cultural Building Industrial Building Factory Stadium Arena

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Mexico City2 Cuernavaca1 Greater Mexico City1

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Mexico4

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Focus

arena · church · cultural building

Concrete Steel

Architects

Architect

Felix Candela

1910-1997 · Mexico City, Mexico City, Mexico

Role: founder

Founder relationship

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

Selected works

Iglesia de la Medalla de la Virgen Milagrosa

1953-1955 · Mexico City, Mexico

Church

Felix Candela

Casino de la Selva

1950s additions · Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico

Hotel and cultural complex

Felix Candela

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

1958-1961 · Greater Mexico City, State of Mexico, Mexico

Industrial complex

Felix Candela

Palacio de los Deportes

1968 · Mexico City, Mexico

Indoor arena

Felix Candela