Basurto Building
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| Basurto Building | |
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Edificio Basurto | |
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| General information | |
| Type | Residential condominium |
| Architectural style | Late or Post-Art Deco |
| Location | Avenida México 187, Colonia Hipódromo, Condesa, Cuauhtémoc borough, Mexico City, Mexico |
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| Construction started | 1940 |
| Completed | 1945 |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 14 |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect | Francisco J. Serrano |
The Basurto Building (Edificio Basurto) is located in the Condesa area of Mexico City, a work of architect Francisco J. Serrano, built between 1940 and 1945. Its design is post- Art Deco. It is fourteen storeys tall, unusually high for the constructions in the area of that period giving it iconic status and an emblem of Condesa.[1][2][3] It is located on Avenida México, half a block from Parque México to the south and Plaza Popocatépetl to the north.
Gallery
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Plaque attesting that Serrano was the architect
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Another view of the façade
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Porras, Jeannette. Condesa Hipódromo. México, Clío, 2001.
- ^ Flores, Stephany. El edificio Basurto. La vivienda de la clase media en la década de 1940. México, tesis para obtener la Licenciatura en Historia, Facultad de Estudios Superiores campus Acatlán, 2014.
- ^ Magaña, Carolina. El art deco en la Ciudad de México, retrospectiva de un movimiento arquitectónico. México, tesis de licenciatura de posgrado en arquitectura, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2007.
External links
[edit | edit source]Error creating thumbnail: File missing Media related to Lua error in Module:Commons_link at line 62: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). at Wikimedia Commons
