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PPhoToGraPhy: CourTesy of iida
cultural/institutional/educational:
honorable mention
Project Jaime Garcia Terres Personal Library
Where Mexico City
Designer arquitectura 911sc
The Jaime Garcia Terres Personal Library is part
of the City of Books, a project by the Mexican
Secretary of Culture that aims to acquire the
personal book collections of significant Mexican
writers and intellectuals of the 20th Century. It is
housed within a 1,830-square-foot room in La
Cuidadela, an 18th-Century building in central
Mexico City. The tzalam tropical wood floor
wraps portions of the walls. Two long, massive
bookshelves are suspended from the walls, and
their rhythm echoes the pattern of the wood
floor. The center of the space contains lower
bookcases, chairs, and reading tables. A reading
cube located at one end of the room provides an
intimate environment for study and contains a
reproduction of the table at which Jaime Garcia
Terres, the esteemed editor and journalist, once
wrote and read. -MURRYE BERNARD
hotels: honorable mention
Project hotel hornitos
Where antofagasta, Chile
Designer Gonzalo Mardones
Located on a plateau 32 meters above sea level in
Chile's Atacama Desert, Hotel Hornitos aims to be
as non-invasive to the landscape as possible. The
main section of the hotel is contained in a sprawling,
horizontal building, with smaller cabins scattered
around it to celebrate the vastness of the desert.
Water for the hotel is taken directly from the sea
and treated at a plant inside the facility.
The main circulation spaces of the
hotel are mostly open, and the strong sunshine
is tempered with eaves and lattices. The lobby is
a large, all-white space bathed in light from above
through reverse skylights that descend from the
ceiling. The colors of the interior and exterior
seek to mimic the pigments found in the desert.
Surfaces in concrete, porcelain, and wood are set
in earth tones, and even the furniture was selected
for its natural tones and materials. -CoDY CAlAMAio
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