Mexican Embassy Berlin
(8 vote, 85.00% worth checking out)
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Klingelhöferstraße 3
Berlin
10785
Germany
coordinates: 52.5081062,13.3510389
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Building names(s): Mexican Embassy Berlin
Architect/Designer: Francisco Serrano + Teodoro Gonzalez de Leon
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Berlin
10785
Germany
coordinates: 52.5081062,13.3510389
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Building names(s): Mexican Embassy Berlin
Architect/Designer: Francisco Serrano + Teodoro Gonzalez de Leon
architect website:
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function(s): embassy
2 comments/reviews
www.inyourpocket.com says:
Aug 27, 2008
Architect Gonzales de Léon and Seranno has hid the warmth of his country behind a massive concrete and marble entranceway. It invites peeping toms just like the Nordic embassies do, but with slanting supports that create a vertical blind effect. The public exhibition area within a cylinder atrium is in homage to a Mayan observatory, the Americas’ first cylinder construction.
www.detail.de says:
Aug 27, 2008
The most striking feature of this building is the entrance facade: an 18-metre-high screen, consisting of 40 partly inclined pillars. Cast inwhite concrete with a content of marble chippings, these elements have a rough bush-hammered finish and are enclosed at the top and sides by a concrete framing structure. Behind this outer layer, a glass facade extends over the full height of the building, allowing views into the interior. From the entrance, visitors proceed to a circular atrium, the visible surfaces of which are also in the white concrete that is characteristic of this building. The atriumspace forms the centre of the embassy complex and serves avariety of purposes. It isclosed at the top onone side by a sunken roof garden.