The design of the apartment building is a response to a number of requirements, including maximizing the use of
a triangular site fronting onto two streets, respecting the alignment and height restrictions which differ from one street to the other, and achieving the most desirable orientation for the rooms. The project is characterized
by the voids behind the parapet walls of the facade in contrast with the vertical planes of solid elements. The
focal sculpture in front of the building is by Mathias Goeritz. The twenty-seven-floor building contains
fifty-nine apartments. The structure is of reinforced
concrete and the facade is of pre-cast concrete blocks
with an exposed marble-chip finish.
Heyer, Paul, Mexican architecture, the work of Abraham Zabludovsky and Teodoro González de León, Walker and Co., 1978 |