Colour as structure
Colour is not decoration here. Cobalt and orange planes define thresholds, frame views and tell you where you are in the building.
Colour is not decoration here. Cobalt and orange planes define thresholds, frame views and tell you where you are in the building.
Surfaces are left as they are made. Board-marked concrete, hand-troweled plaster and cast terrazzo age in public.
Following Mexican modernist precedent, rooms turn inward to patios and light wells, keeping the city loud outside and calm within.
Each room is built around a single gesture — a platform, a curve, a stair, a pool — rather than a collection of furniture.


