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Televisa Cafeterias
San Angel and Chapultepec, Mexico City MEXICO
1998

Client
Televisa

Architect
TEN Arquitectos

Structural Engineer
Ove Arup & Partners
Guy Nordenson

Associate Structural Engineer
Colinas de Buen

1998 Mies van der Rohe Latin America Prize
1994 Progressive Architecture Citation

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The cafeteria for the Televisa company is constructed on top of a parking structure. It consists of an elliptical conoid roof, an original geometry for the time, and is supported on arches balanced on slender pipe columns. The glass end wall is cable supported.