Mexican Museum to Foster Tolerance
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Mexican Museum to Foster Tolerance
Arditti+RDT Arquitectos designed the 70,000-square-foot Museum of Memory and Tolerance, currently under construction in Mexico City. The museum is located in Plaza Juarez adjacent to the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs and a federal courts complex, which was designed by Legorreta + Legorreta.
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Mexican Museum to Foster Tolerance
The museum's exteriors take their aesthetic cues from the Legorreta buildings, seen at left in this image. Wood-framed windows, inset into the exposed concrete walls of the podium, continue a rhythm established on the ministry's facades. At right, a fountain designed by Legorreta occupies much of an internal courtyard formed by the addition of the museum at one end.
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Mexican Museum to Foster Tolerance
A boxcar used by the Nazis to transport people to death camps in Poland, one of museum's key exhibits, is lowered into place during construction last winter.
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Mexican Museum to Foster Tolerance
At the center of the museum is an atrium in which a children's memorial, intended for children, is suspended at two points "like two hands holding it," says architect Arturo Arditti. The floor of this volume is glazed, allowing visitors to see into it from below.
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