Tori Tori Restaurant

Now, that I have mention that I have commenced a search to explore Mexican Architects work;  accidentally, today, I was looking through my emails, and from a spam that I had recieved, I found a beautiful building meant to be Japanese restaurant in Mexico City architect Michel Rojkind and industrial designer  Hector Esrawe

Michel Rojkind is a Mexican architect and former musician of Russian-Mexican descent From 1987 to 1999, Rojkind was a drummer in Aleks Syntek's band La Gente Normal and studied architecture in Mexico City's Universidad Iberoamericana.After working independently for several years, he established Adria+Broid+Rojkind (1998-2002) with Isaac Broid and Miquel Adria. His work seeks new directions in architectural practice by evoking common identities through the exploration of uncharted geometries that address questions of space, function, technology, materials, structure, and construction methods related directly to geography, climate and local urban experiences. In 2002, he established Rojkind Arquitectos, an independent firm recognized as "one of the best ten Design Vanguard firms" by Architectural Record in 2005.
http://www.exmicro.mistral.co.uk/ACUE_www/ACU/biographies.html

 Hector Esrawe Is a Mexican Industrial Designer by the Universidad Iberoamericana(1992), began his career as and independent designer under the Esrawe Studio firm. Founder and current member of the Nel Collective, he was also an Industrial Designer professor at the Universidad Iberoamericana(1998 to 2002), founder and former Directir if the Industrial Design Bachelor Program at Centro de Diseño, Cine y Television from 2003 to 2005.He is also a member of the editorial board of Arquine Magazine. Among his designs are arts and crafts products and interiorism.
Winner of the Best of the Year Awards 2011 for Tori Tori restaurant in collaboration with Rojkind Arquitectos, winner of the Bienal Iberoamericana de Diseño (2010) in the Interior design spaces category for ''Cielito Querido Café'', special mention at the Design Magazine's ''Best of the Year Awards'' for Cielito Querido Café,  and Diseño Magazine's  Excellence Award in 2010, Quorum Award winner and recognized for 15 years of excellence by IIDA México, silver medal winner at the Bienal de Diseño for LAR Headquarters Project (Mexico City 2008).

http://www.esrawe.com/

PROYECTO RESTAURANTE TORI TORI

Ubicación: México D.F.

Construcción: 629 m2

Programa: Restaurante Japonés

Fecha de diseño: 2008

Fecha de terminación: 2010

CRÉDITOS

Proyecto arquitectónico: rojkind arquitectos [Michel Rojkind] + ESRAWE Studio [Héctor Esrawe]

rojkind arquitectos

Principal a cargo: Michel Rojkind

Equipo: Tere Levy, Agustín Pereyra, Raúl Araiza, Carlos Alberto Ríos, Isaac Smeke Jaber, Enrique F. de la Barrera

ESRAWE Studio

Principal a cargo: Héctor Esrawe

Equipo: Ricardo Casas, Basia Pineda, Ian Castillo, Karianne Rygh, Alejandra Castelao, Jorge Bracho

Consultaría de fachada: [ESTUDIOS 3D] Kokkugia [Roland Snooks, Robert Stuart-Smith]

Ingeniería de fachada: GRUPO MAS [Ing. Eduardo Flores]

Construcción: ZDA desarrollo + arquitectura [Yuri Zagorin]

Diseño de iluminación: luz en arquitectura [Arq. Kai Diederichsen]

Proyecto de audio y video: NTX New Technology Experience

Diseño de paisaje: entorno taller de paisaje

Ingeniería estructural: Ing. Juan Felipe Heredia

Proyecto de instalaciones: QUANTUM Diseño

Mobiliario: ESRAWE Studio

Cocina: San-Son

Visualización: © Glessner Group

Visualización interior: ESRAWE Studio

Artista invitado: Fotógrafo Guido Torres

Mexican Architects

I have decided what my project is going to be! 

Because I am going to be an architect :), I must find what is going to be “MY STYLE”... So, my new mission is to begin a data base of different architects' work. My focus will be Mexican architects, in order to engage my culture, blend architecture with Mexicans artistic and structural influences. 

I high goal to reach will be to become a Frida Kahlo... I wish...  but of course, with a Giovanna Gallardo spice, oh yeah... crazy Mexican living in the US. <3 

To start I will have Posts of each individual architect. 

The few Mexican architects that I have were recommended by my beautiful aunt Tita Millan, my art teacher. The recommendations were:

Luis Barragan (1960)

Ricardo Legorreta

Elias Rizo

Agustín Hernandez




1.  Luis Barragan -->  http://www.barragan-foundation.org , http://designmuseum.org/design/luis-barragan
2. Ricardo Legorreta --> http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/000203/legorreta.shtml  
3. Elias Rizo Arquitectos --> http://www.mexican-architects.com/en/elias-rizo/es/
4. Agustín Hernandez --> http://moleskinearquitectonico.blogspot.com/2010/08/la-obra-de-agustin-hernandez-mexico.html

ooH La La Artistas Mexicanos y del Mundo.

       En la búsqueda por Arquitectos Mexicanos, encontré una pagina web, El Poder de la Palabra, que sirve como base de datos compuesta de varios escritores, artistas y músicos de diferentes países.


La descripción dice:
El Poder de la Palabra es una web dedicada a la prosa poética. En ella encontrará fragmentos de textos literarios, así como la biografía e imágenes de sus autores. Para acompañarle en la lectura podrá ver también... obras de arte, imágenes de edificios, composiciones clásicas, bandas sonoras y una selección de los más importantes premios literarios, artísticos y culturales.


Me parececio una gran oportunidad para explorar los trabajos de artistas mexicanos, entre otros. 
http://www.epdlp.com/paise.php?pais=M%E9xico


Autocad free trial Link:
http://usa.autodesk.com/autocad-architecture/trial/

Dreams

                                                           http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q29YR5-t3gg 
  
 As one of my favorite songs by Cat Stevens, Father and Son, says "look at everything you got. For you will still be here tomorrow but your dreams may not"... its really a nice song, and now I find myself in the transition between high school years and the adult world, wanting to have projects of my own, earn money, work hard, learn a lot... but I find myself trapped and without a path to follow. I really enjoyed this semester in college and doing architectural drawings, but I have no special activity other than homework. I got in the college tennis team for a while until my sister confessed she didn't enjoy it as much as I did and we stopped going, we share car... 

I see everyone has an activity of their own, my sister is earning good money doing photo shoots, I'm very proud of her. I wish I could find something I could do without being hired... It sucks living in the United States and having to wait for your Social Security to arrive... even after having applied almost 2 years ago, everyone that has been transferred here because of their jobs, or parents job, and are PROMISED to get a social security and have to wait years to get it ( really years... I know someone that has lived here for more than seven years and still hasn't received the residency)  It really ruins your life... it is like we are no one, we have no rights... of course we pay taxes but we cant vote, cant apply for scholarships, cant work legally... it is really outrageous ... I have good grades, I worked for a good GPA, got more than 240 service hours, was the vice-president of the Interior Design Club at Cypress Bay, the secretary of the Art Honor Society also at Cyrpress Bay High School... member of the Spanish Club and the Business Club and all my efforts for nothing... I ended up going to Broward College because all the universities cost a lot, that even professors say that without scholarships its just too much to pay for.

But oh well, I want that social security or to just get out of this country... The only thing stopping me is the fact that I don't want to leave  my boyfriend I really think I found the right person for me, and of course money... 

Acknowledging my current situation I have to find SOMETHING I can do to make my transition to the adult world the MOST enriching possible. I need high aiming goals, I need a hobby! I need to go back into the life style that gave me freedom to express myself artistically and socially... I need a plan.

Madrid-Barajas and Nuclear engineering

Since my boyfriend's parents know I am beginning to study architecture, they have begun to share interesting contemporary pieces of architecture they encounter in their trips to Europe. One of the buildings they say reminded them of me was the Madrid-Barajas airport (obviously in Madrid, Spain). It is a 
a little bit about the airport from Wikipedia:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madrid-Barajas_Airport

"Madrid-Barajas is the main international airport serving Madrid in Spain. In 2010, over 49.8 million passengers used Madrid-Barajas,^[1]making it the country's largest and busiest airport, and in 2009 it was the world's 11th busiest airport^[4] and Europe's fourth busiest airport. It opened in 1928, and has grown to be one of the most important aviation centres of Europe. Located within the city limits of Madrid, just 9 km (5.6 mi) from the city's financial district and 13 km (8.1 mi) northeast of the Puerta del Sol, Madrid's historic centre. The airport name derives from the adjacent district ofBarajas, which has its own metro station on the same rail line serving the airport." 

From what i have looked at the pictures on google looks like terminal four is the most interesting ."Terminal 4, designed by Antonio Lamela and Richard Rogers" 
The interior is very interesting and playful, very colorful and wavy. Here are some pictures:

terminal 4 lobby

Terminal 4 exterior

Terminal 3

Terminal 2

Terminal 1