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Left Pedro&Juana updated the flooring of an existing patio. e outdoor leisure room holds po ed plants, a pair of the firm’s Carola chairs, and stacked collections of a ceramic pot proto pe called Maceta, also
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designed by the architects.
for the 2015 Chicago Architecture Biennial (CAB), 2016 Design Miami showcase, and an upcoming design for the Commons, a multiuse engagement space at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. In all of their projects, they furnish public areas with furniture of their own design, imbuing utilitarian spaces with a joyful energy and effervescent wit. Those sensibilities— and some of those furniture pieces— are fully realized throughout the pair’s recently renovated, 1,200-square foot Mexico City apartment. “We kind of just did it the way we wanted to,â€? Ruiz Galindo said, describing the radical renovations the pair made to their fanciful apartment in the city’s Colonia JuĂĄrez neighborhood. The residence is located in a two-story, 176-unit neoclassical building built in 1913 as housing for the administrative staff of a local tobacco company called El Buen Tono. The apartment had a long history of deferred maintenance and disjointed alterations that allowed the designers to reprogram the spaces as they saw fit. “We eradicated hallways and, typologically speaking, went back in time,â€? Reuss said. The flip was simple: Service areas were consolidated and modernized in the front of the apartment, while bedrooms were moved to the
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