The project carried out by the Uruguayan studio in Mexico obtained an honorable mention in the latest edition of the International Architecture Awards, organized by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Center for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies. It is one of the most outstanding awards in the field of architecture, landscaping and urbanism in the world.
With its first fully inhabited residential tower, the hotel fully operational and the recent inauguration of its first commercial sector, the Catehua mixed-use project – created by the Uruguayan studio and highlighted by the LADI 2018 awards for Best Mixed-Use Project in Latin America – continues to position itself as an excellent option to invest, live and buy in the Mexican city of Monterrey.
The project of more than 100,000m² is located in a strategic point of the industrial and university sector of Monterrey. It is made up of 455 apartments distributed in three residential towers, 4,500 m² for office and coworking use, a shopping plaza and recreation areas, as well as a City Express hotel with 150 rooms designed for business tourism.
“We wanted to do something different and for us there was no better way to achieve it than to get people with different eyes,” says Rodolfo González, general director of Lemura Desarrollos, the company responsible for the project.
After having won the first prize in an invitational competition and surpassed the architectural proposals of some of the main Mexican and American studios, Gómez Platero continues adding achievements in one of its main programs: mixed-use projects.
This type of architectural program is defined through an objective: the combination of three or more different uses in a single real estate development such as the present combination of residences, offices, commercial premises and a hotel that defines Catehua.
In turn, the study -which has projects in 36 cities in 13 Latin American countries- accompanies this type of urban pieces with the generation of quality public spaces, giving back to the city new meeting, enjoyment and well-being areas for their communities.
Martín Gómez Platero, architect, director and founder of the studio that already has more than 170 collaborators, maintains that “public spaces are key to the development of cities.”
“When we imagine the future we must think about how we want life in society to be, what are the challenges to overcome so that the public spaces where we develop our social relationships make us happy”, he adds.
Regarding the project, Martín Gómez Platero affirms: “For Catehua we considered these concepts, integrating various programs into a quality public space just above one of the most important metro stations in the university area. All this generates a movement and a synergy of uses that has generated an almost unprecedented sales success in the city of Monterrey.”.
