Museo Jumex
Travertine-clad pavilion of contemporary art, raised on slim columns above an open plaza.
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This guide to Museo Jumex in Mexico City centers on the hand-cut travertine wrapping the building, quarried in Xalapa and set panel by panel by masons whose skill left architect David Chipperfield openly impressed on his first Latin American project. You'll hear about the fourteen slim columns that let the pavilion float above the plaza, and the sawtooth roofline hiding skylights built to wash the galleries with even daylight. It opened in 2013, funded by juice-fortune heir Eugenio Lopez Alonso, in the Polanco neighborhood the building now floats above.
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