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    Mexico City restaurant by RA! arranged around upside-down pyramid bar

    November 27, 2023 - By 

    A bar counter shaped like an inverted ziggurat sits at the centre of this restaurant in Mexico City, designed by local architecture studio RA! Tana is a tapas spot located in the city’s wealthy Polanco neighbourhood, within a compact and intimate space facing Parque Lincoln. The Tana restaurant is organized around a central concrete bar RA! gutted the 65-square-metre unit to make way for its cave-like concept, achieved by applying textured plaster and concrete across the four-metre-high walls. “The intervention began by demolishing the superimposed finishes of the old premises, in order to discover the structure and the materials that…

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    Estudio Estudio unveils “architectural treasures” in Mexico City house

    October 7, 2023 - By 

    Arched doorways and a rooftop studio feature in the Y.27 House, which has been overhauled by architecture firm Estudio Estudio in a way that honours the historic building’s original character. Located on a 195-square-metre site in Mexico City’s Hipódromo Condesa neighbourhood, the project serves as a full-time residence for a client who is a social entrepreneur and collector of Mexican craftwork. The house been overhauled to honour the historic building’s original character Originally built in the 1930s, the stucco-clad dwelling had endured years of neglect, said local firm Estudio Estudio. The design team set out to revamp the home’s interior,…