Art, architecture and travel in Mexico

Casa Erasto’s pavilion-like presence makes for a refined family home in Mexico City

Taking its cues from the Chapultepec forest, Casa Erasto is a striking composition in glass and concrete by architecture studio Vertebral in Mexico City

By Ellie Stathaki Last updated 25 October 22

Architecture news: Letter from Mexico

By Cathelijne Nuijsink Last updated 25 October 22

Concrete and stone layer into the landscape at Casa Bedolla in Mexico

By Harriet Thorpe Last updated 21 October 22

Laying low: Fabien Cappello reflects on the art of relaxation in Mexico

By Benoit Loiseau Last updated 21 October 22

Mexico’s Mextrópoli 2019 explores cities and architecture across generations

By Tracy Lynn Chemaly Last updated 21 October 22

A volcanic stone house by Cadaval & Solà-Morales holds its own in Mexico

By Harriet Thorpe Last updated 21 October 22

A new Baldessari-inspired Mexico City restaurant tackles the ‘clean eating’ fad

By Elly Parsons Last updated 21 October 22

Perfect pavilion: Casa Graciela lets the Mexican nature in

By Susanne Kennedy Last updated 20 October 22

A hotel magnate’s brutalist base in Mexico City has us green with envy

By Ana Karina Zatarain Last updated 20 October 22

Abraham Cota Paredes

By Ellie Stathaki Last updated 19 October 22

Zeller & Moye

By Ellie Stathaki Last updated 19 October 22

Pacific dreams: a coastal Mexican home built like a micro-village

By Daven Wu Last updated 19 October 22

DF Mexico — London, UK

By David Paw Last updated 19 October 22

How World Design Capital 2018 Mexico City is being redefined by Archivo Diseño y Arquitectura

By Benoit Loiseau Last updated 17 October 22

Out of office: coffee and creative small talk with Tatiana Bilbao

Bodil Blain, Wallpaper* columnist and founder of Cru Kafé, shares coffee and creative small talk with leading figures from the worlds of art, architecture, design, and fashion. This week, it’s Mexican architect Tatiana Bilbao, who is currently designing a brutalist, ethical aquarium in Mazatlán and has an exhibition at Copenhagen's Louisiana Museum of Modern Art opening in October 2019

By Bodil Blain Last updated 14 October 22

Carsten Höller gives a Mexican museum a fresh perspective

The art trickster’s new installation at Museo Tamayo is guaranteed to keep you in suspended animation

By Osman Can Yerebakan Last updated 13 October 22

Rainwater-harvesting architecture leads this Mexican home

The Rain Harvest Home by Javier Sanchez of JSa architects and Robert Hutchison of Robert Hutchison Architecture in Mexico combines style and sustainability

By Pei-Ru Keh Last updated 13 October 22

An aromatic garden enfolds this Mexico City house by Manuel Cervantes

A private residence in Mexico City by local architecture firm Manuel Cervantes Estudio makes the most out of the striking ravine-side site and existing flora to create a ceramic-clad home that is contemporary but also at one with the outdoors

By Ellie Stathaki Last updated 12 October 22

Dark age: a cluster of blackened concrete pavilions forms a discreet retreat outside Mexico City

By Jonathan Bell Last updated 12 October 22

Sip on cocktails by the pool of Mexico’s newest boutique property

By David Paw Last updated 12 October 22

Pieter Hugo’s fascinating photographs bring Mexican culture to life

By Tracy Lynn Chemaly Last updated 12 October 22

Cadaval Sola-Morales’s Casa de la Roca in Mexico is the perfect forest retreat

By Ellie Stathaki Last updated 11 October 22

At home with artist Gabriel Rico

Even in a period of social distancing, the art world continues to turn. In our ongoing series, we go home, from home, with artists finding inspiration in isolation. Reached during his temporary seclusion among the Mexican mountains, Gabriel Rico reveals how his poetic assemblages of found objects draw on culture, philosophy and the natural order of things

By TF Chan Last updated 11 October 22

Museo Jumex by David Chipperfield Architects opens in Mexico City

By Daniel Scheffler Last updated 11 October 22