Selected candidates for Environmental Culture Center in Chapultepec
Note originally published in El Universal
Announcement of selected candidates for the Environmental Culture Center in Chapultepec
Five projects participate in the first stage of the Thematic-Ethnobotanical Garden contest, reported the Ministry of Culture
In the first stage of the call for the development of the Thematic-Ethnobotanical Garden, Environmental Culture Center, in the second section of the Bosque de Chapultepec, and within the Chapultepec Cultural Complex project, five proposals were selected, reported the Federal Ministry of Culture and the Government of Mexico City, through the Ministry of the Environment.
The five finalists are Eduardo Gorozpe Fernández, Martín Laureano Antonio Gutiérrez Guzmán, Abraham David Cherem Cherem (Cherem Arquitectos), Karla Paola López Carrillo and Rafael Ponce Ortiz (Erre Q Erre Arquitectura y Urbanismo), who were registered as holders, it is explained in the release.
The Secretary of Culture informs that it was decided to award Honorable Mention to six more participants, whose holders are: Marco Antonio Coello Buck, Jacobo Micha Mizrahi, Vertebral (Elias Kalach Hanono / Teddy Naines Sarfati), Román Jesús Cordero Tovar, Nuño, Mac Gregor and De Buen Arquitectos SC (Aurelio Nuño Morales / Carlos Mac Gregor Anciola / Clara De Buen Richkarday) and Alvaro Gerardo Rodríguez García.
The jury was made up of the Secretary of Works and Services of the Government of Mexico City, Jesús Antonio Esteva Medina; the representative of the governing council, urban architect and designer, doctor in sociology of science and technology, Víctor Márquez Cravioto; the Secretary of the Environment of the Government of Mexico City, Marina Robles García; Ricardo Riveros Celis president of the International Federation of Lanscape Architects, Americas Region (IFLA Americas); Andrea Rodríguez Figueroa from the UNAM Architecture Research Center, the artist Gabriel Orozco; Heike Vibrans Lindemann, coordinator of the Botany Program of the Graduate College, Ethnobotany Laboratory; and the biologist, doctor of microbiology; soil and vegetation specialist, IPN researcher, Sergio Trejo Estrada.
The Center for Environmental Culture, reports the agency, will be a space dedicated to the knowledge of ecology, the natural wealth of the country and the global environmental challenges to be faced today in the short, medium and long term. It will be located on Avenida de los Compositores, between avenues Adolfo López Mateos, de los Constituyentes, Lomas and Ixtlán street, surrounded by the “Correr es Salud” Circuit, between the interior streets Nery Vela and the space of the Natural History Museum.
The agencies do not explain when the next stage of the contest will be.
Those selected will participate in the second stage, where they will develop their preliminary project; and there the winning proposal will be chosen.
“The members of the jury wish to publicize our approval for the extraordinary level of the conceptual proposals. The average of quality and professionalism undoubtedly exceeds recent competitions in our country and speaks of the great interest of our society in the Chapultepec Forest”, the Minutes of the Jury read.