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Centro Urbano Presidente Alemán: Exterior · One of the apartment buildings of the Centro Urbano Benito Juarez in Mexico City
1/6 · Exterior · One of the apartment buildings of the Centro Urbano Benito Juarez in Mexico CityPhoto: Thelmadatter · CC BY-SA 3.0 · source
Centro Urbano Presidente Alemán: Exterior · One of the apartment buildings of the Centro Urbano Benito Juarez in Mexico City
2/6 · Exterior · One of the apartment buildings of the Centro Urbano Benito Juarez in Mexico CityPhoto: Thelmadatter · CC BY-SA 3.0 · source
Centro Urbano Presidente Alemán: Exterior · Access to Presidente Juarez Urban Center, Colonia Roma, Mexico City, Mexico
3/6 · Exterior · Access to Presidente Juarez Urban Center, Colonia Roma, Mexico City, MexicoPhoto: ProtoplasmaKid · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
Centro Urbano Presidente Alemán: Exterior · Jardín Ramón López Velarde in Mexico City
4/6 · Exterior · Jardín Ramón López Velarde in Mexico CityPhoto: Haakon S. Krohn · CC BY-SA 3.0 · source
Centro Urbano Presidente Alemán: Detail · Commemorative sculpture of the 1926 Central American and Caribbean Games
5/6 · Detail · Commemorative sculpture of the 1926 Central American and Caribbean GamesPhoto: ProtoplasmaKid · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
Centro Urbano Presidente Alemán: Detail
6/6 · DetailPhoto: Misantla33 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
Photo 1: Exterior · One of the apartment buildings of the Centro Urbano Benito Juarez in Mexico CityPhoto 2: Exterior · One of the apartment buildings of the Centro Urbano Benito Juarez in Mexico CityPhoto 3: Exterior · Access to Presidente Juarez Urban Center, Colonia Roma, Mexico City, MexicoPhoto 4: Exterior · Jardín Ramón López Velarde in Mexico CityPhoto 5: Detail · Commemorative sculpture of the 1926 Central American and Caribbean GamesPhoto 6: Detail

Housing · Modernism

Centro Urbano Presidente Alemán

Mario Pani · Mexico City, Mexico · 1949

Key featuresZigzag slabs with corridors on every third floor serve over a thousand duplex flats amid open ground.

Architect
Mario Pani
Place
Mexico City, Mexico
Year
1949
Typology
Housing
Movement
Modernism
Region
Americas
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