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Ever wondered what inspires our current generation of architects? For Johannesburg-based Yasmin Mayat, it’s not only who but also what, with inspiration coming from the city she loves and from South Africa’s complicated past.
By Gina Baldivieso El Alto, Bolivia, Aug 16 (EFE).- The barking of dozens of dogs echoed in the atrium of the Body of Christ parish, in the Bolivian city of El Alto, on Tuesday at a mass celebrated to bless the canines and their humans on Saint Roch’s Day. Priest Justino Limachi and volunteers set …
León Villegas and Mónica Arellano explore the history of the periphery of Mexico City, making a critique of the aesthetic over the ethical.
Shafik Meghji visits El Alto, Bolivia’s youngest and highest city, a place where the past and the future collide.
Manuel Solano’s earliest childhood memories of Heliplaza, a shopping mall on the outskirts of Mexico City, are mostly about light and texture: the way the sun cascaded through its geodesic dome and sparkled in the fountain in the atrium, the brilliance of its smooth white tile and curving parapet accented in cream and yellow, the glass bricks that shone like diamonds in a tiara. This was in the early 1990s, ten years after Heliplaza was erected in Ciudad Satélite, a suburb of tract homes and roundabouts that by then had lost some of its midcentury glamour. But for Solano, the mall offered a...