https://www.architecturalrecord.com/rss/1272 en-us http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/17839 Tue, 11 Nov 2025 07:47:33 -0500 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/17839-2025-architectural-record-awards-winner-pictograma-winery The new senior vice president of architecture for WeWork will oversee all ground-up projects.

]]> http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/14027 Wed, 24 Apr 2019 09:00:00 -0400 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/14027-interview-with-michel-rojkind A striking new concert hall on Mexico's coast transforms a town's profile.

]]> http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/13217 Fri, 02 Feb 2018 09:00:00 -0500 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/13217-foro-boca-by-rojkind-arquitectos Visitors enter the building below a massive cantilever. Photo © Paúl Rivera The building echoes the language of the jetty’s concrete blocks. Photo © Jaime Navarro Photo © Paúl Rivera Performances are projected simultaneously on the hall’s facade. Photo © Paúl Rivera During intermission, concertgoers take in views from a terrace. Photo © Jaime Navarro Local guanacaste wood brings a warmth to the dramatic atrium. Photo © Paúl Rivera Oak has a similar effect in the main concert hall Photo © Jaime Navarro Image courtesy Rojkind Arquitectos Image courtesy Rojkind Arquitectos Image courtesy Rojkind Arquitectos When Michel Rojkind calls Highpark “extroverted,” you might think, “It takes one to know one.” An exuberant character, the Mexico City–based architect is rarely at a loss for words or enthusiasm. His new housing project in Monterrey, a major industrial and business center in northeast Mexico, shares his outgoing personality—engaging its urban context and striking an animated profile on the street. 

]]> 1510-highpark-monterrey-mexico-rojkind-arquitectos.asp Fri, 16 Oct 2015 12:00:00 -0400 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/10166-highpark Highpark The north-facing entry facade curves around a public plaza landscaped by Entorno Taller de Paisaje, a firm based in Puebla, Mexico. With its stepped massing and rugged stone facades, the building alludes to the Sierra Madre Oriental mountains behind it.   Photo © Adri'n Llaguno Highpark Four different local firms were invited to design the apartment interiors, including one by Mauricio de la Garza.   Photo © Adri'n Llaguno Highpark The building rises in an affluent neighborhood.   Photo © Adri'n Llaguno Highpark Tables and benches on the plaza, along with stores and restaurants on the ground floor, invite everyone to come.   Photo © Jaime Navarro The variety of outdoor spaces, including balconies and terraces, allows residents to see and be seen. The hope is to engender a sense of connection and community. HighparkRojkind ArquitectosMonterrey, MexicoThe variety of outdoor spaces, including balconies and terraces, allows residents to see and be seen. The hope is to engender a sense of connection and community.Photo © Jaime Navarro Highpark Image courtesy Rojkind Arquitectos Highpark Image courtesy Rojkind Arquitectos Highpark Image courtesy Rojkind Arquitectos Highpark Image courtesy Rojkind Arquitectos A firm transforms Mexico's national cinema into a bustling, sexy civic hub. The joke goes like this: the person handing out woven mats for visitors to sit on while watching outdoor film screenings on the lawn of Mexico City's Cineteca Nacional is said to ask young couples if they would like one mat, or—lilting into a suggestive tone—two.

]]> 1401-cineteca-nacional-siglo-xxi-rojkind-arquitectos.asp Thu, 16 Jan 2014 12:00:00 -0500 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/7966-cineteca-nacional-siglo-xxi Cineteca Nacional Siglo XXI The Rojkind Arquitectos addition to the Cineteca Nacional includes an outdoor cinema where films are screened on its dramatic facade.   Photo © Paúl Rivera Cineteca Nacional Siglo XXI Triangular openings let sunlight penetrate the Cineteca’s canopy, while a glass roof provides protection from rain.   Photo © Paúl Rivera Cineteca Nacional Siglo XXI The covering wraps new screening rooms and extends to the existing theater buildings.   Photo © Paúl Rivera Cineteca Nacional Siglo XXI It partially encloses a plaza at one end of a lawn extending to a parking garage and east entrance. Temporary landscaping, installed for Cineteca’s opening, has recently been replaced, with the topography now rising to meet boomerang-shaped concrete benches.   Photo © Paúl Rivera Cineteca Nacional Siglo XXI From the south lawn and outdoor cinema, an open-air concourse lined with a café, restaurant, bookstore, and ticket window leads into the Cineteca. The curving structure allows sight lines among the cinema’s social spaces, creating a see-and-be-seen promenade toward the covered plaza at the heart of the campus.   Photo © Paúl Rivera Cineteca Nacional Siglo XXI Presentation Drawing Showing New Theater Building (left) and Existing Screening rooms (right)   Photo © Paúl Rivera Cineteca Nacional Siglo XXI Photo © Paúl Rivera Cineteca Nacional Siglo XXI Photo © Paúl Rivera