Winners of Arquine's MEXTRÓPOLI 2020 Pavilion competition have been announced!

The international competition, led by Arquine, called for architects and designers to submit their best proposals for a temporary pavilion to be located within Mexico City during the MEXTRÓPOLI 2020 Architecture and City Festival. According to the competition brief, participants should aim to create a structure that would generate creative discourse surrounding the themes of innovation and sustainability. Proposals should also create an open public program that builds a place for the interaction between architecture and citizenship.

The competition's jury consisted of Tatiana Bilbao, Ruth Estévez, Carlos Facio, Alberto Odériz, Saidee Springall, and Alejandro Tapia. After reviewing and evaluating 292 proposals, the group selected its winners. 

The jury awarded Gastronmic Palapa by Sabrina Morreale, Lorenzo Perri (Lemonot Studio) and Federico Fauli the winning project. When selecting the second and third place winners, the jury was faced with a difficult task. After much deliberation, the contest coordinators share, "the jurors decided to divide the second and third place prize among the following three projects (without hierarchy) so that the three projects would receive the same economic compensation." As a result, the three teams will split the sum total of the second place (50,000MXN) and third place (25,000MXN) prizes between themselves equally.

Learn more about the winning projects and their jury comments below courtesy of the contest coordinators.

First Prize
Project: Gastronmic Palapa