https://ounodesign.com/2010/05/07/mexico-city/ Tue, 11 May 2010 01:16:34 +0000 hourly 1 https://ounodesign.com/2010/05/07/mexico-city/#comment-1513 Tue, 11 May 2010 01:16:34 +0000 http://blog.ounodesign.com/?p=9122#comment-1513 Every design nerd should visit Mexico City. Just for the Luis Barragan House alone, not to mention the new Kurimanzutto Gallery. Yes, Mexico City’s temperate dry climate does allow people the luxury of more design and building options, and greater freedom with materials, but you get the feeling that if they were dealing with the cold and rain, they’d come up with something better than we have.

]]> https://ounodesign.com/2010/05/07/mexico-city/#comment-1512 Sat, 08 May 2010 14:30:55 +0000 http://blog.ounodesign.com/?p=9122#comment-1512 It looks like at least some of the buildings (the Art Nouveau?) are made to take advantage of natural ventilation. I always wonder what we’re going to do with some of the hermetically sealed high rise glass boxes in the interval between outrageously priced oil and the development of sustainable energy resources.
I wonder if the old evaporative cooling systems would even make a difference of a couple of degrees in some of the oversize greenhouses they threw up in the eighties.

]]> https://ounodesign.com/2010/05/07/mexico-city/#comment-1511 Fri, 07 May 2010 20:37:45 +0000 http://blog.ounodesign.com/?p=9122#comment-1511 i soooo want to go to mexico city. i’ve never been, but heard it is so amazing…

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