You can tell a lot about a place by the kind of postcards offered for sale there. The ones in Monterrey, Mexico, the capital city of the northeastern state of Nuevo Leon and the country’s industrial center, picture historic steel works, beer from the local breweries, and the “Lighthouse of Commerce” monument in the center of town. It seems fitting then, that a new steel museum, Museo Del Acero Horno³, built in and around a decommissioned blast furnace, has emerged as a new focal point for the region. It is one component of the city’s larger transformation of the surrounding 275-acre industrial campus into a public park, Parque Fundidora, which includes the renovation of numerous industrial structures into cultural forums and the like. The project, part adaptive-reuse and part new construction, is also particularly well-suited to its British architect, Nicholas Grimshaw—who attributes his formative early involvement with industrial projects in part to his roots: One of his grandfathers was a dam builder in Egypt, the other a physician and public health inspector in Dublin who arranged for the installation of the city’s drainage system.
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