Chato Famoso

I'm moved to NY before they banned cigarettes, left before they banned cars old

Incredible guide to the streets of Centro in Mexico City

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Personally, I prefer the cactus theory.

If you have any ideas about the true origins of the tube fences—other than being utilitarian and low-cost—please let me know!

González de León: also a big Le Corbusier guy. He designed some of Mexico City’s most beautifully austere buildings, including Museo Rufino Tamayo and Auditorio Nacional de México. He also designed the shopping mall Reforma 222—which is a bunch of tubes.

Teodoro González de León - Wikipedia

But when I asked Exa Gonzalez, a guide who hosts architecture tours here in the city, he suggested that the tubes had a more recent origin: the modernist designs of Teodoro González de León.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teodoro...

O’Gorman was the father of Mexican functionalism, which prioritized efficiency at low cost, following Le Corbusier’s philosophy that a house is a "machine for living". In O’Gorman’s language, the tubular fences would make a kind of utilitarian sense. The man loved simple geometric shapes.

In a charitable moment, I thought perhaps they were based on the elegant cercas de cactus used by architect Juan O’Gorman, most famously in front of the Diego and Frida studio houses.

Basically a fence of skinny bollards.

They’ve been in use since the 70s, i.e., the days of modernism and the international style, bell bottoms and Los Dug Dugs. But I’ve never really understood how, or why, the Mexican government decided on their form and structure.

There’s a type of fence you see everywhere here, in Mexico City.

More of a wall, really, made of cylindrical tubes, usually surrounding government buildings.

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qué onda migos

Quiénes son las buenas personas a seguir sobre México y la CDMX aquí ?

“It is said so often and in such ignorance that Mexicans are contented, happy people. “They don’t want anything.” This, of course, is not a description of the happiness of Mexicans, but of the unhappiness of the person who says it.”

— John Steinbeck, in The Log from the Sea of Cortez (1941)

{J} 26: What a Monument Means A visit to the monument to Cuauhtémoc, the first man to resist the foreigners

weird how nobody celebrates their quinceañera beneath the torture monument

if they were real ones the stamp would be a black octagon y dice "simulacro excesivo"

shitty clickthrough markets in everything

team ignore, but also team art, which overlaps a bit sometimes

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