Floreria Mercado Jamaica

This guide to Floreria Mercado Jamaica in Mexico City opens with the corrugated metal roof overhead, a patch bolted where something stranger once stood: two rows of concrete umbrella canopies raised in 1957 by Spanish engineer Felix Candela, a refugee of the Spanish Civil War who rebuilt his career in Mexico. It follows how thin, mushroom-shaped concrete shells came to shelter a produce market, working alongside architects Pedro Ramirez Vazquez and Rafael Mijares. Each shell spanned eighteen meters without a single interior post to block a delivery truck.