the flood park the damlocated in Nogales, Sonora, received recognition as the work better built in the American continent between 2018 and 2021, under the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize Emerge (MCHAP) 2022 distinction.
This space was built in 2019 by the Secretariat of Agrarian, Territorial and Urban Development (Sedatu), through the Urban Improvement Program with an investment of 58 million pesos, for the benefit of more than 8,000 people who live in the surrounding area.
“A project that solves infrastructure problems with the delicacy and sensitivity of a thoughtful architectural intervention where people are at the center of all considerations,” said Sandra Barclay, MCHAP 2022 Jury President.
“(The park) is an example – he added – of how a vulnerable neighborhood can transform itself socially and physically, extending beyond the resolution of a technical problem to offer its inhabitants a public space for use, a linear pedestrian walkway and a shade as meeting place”.
According to the Sedatuthe recognition was delivered on September 21 at the SR Crown Hall, headquarters of the Faculty of Architecture of the Illinois Institute of Technology, a space considered one of the masterpieces of Mies Van der Rohe.
The agency reported that the project was designed by Taller Capital and the Faculty of Architecture of the National Autonomous University of Mexico and the architects Loreta Castro Reguera and José Pablo Ambrosi participated.
Sedatu He explained that this award recognizes the best office projects less than 10 years old and the work was selected from a set of 50 emerging practice projects.
