Los Manantiales Restaurant
Also known as Restaurante Los Manantiales
1958
Modernism
restaurant
Eight intersecting hyperbolic paraboloid shells bloom like a concrete flower over the waters of Xochimilco's ancient canals. Candela's most photographed structure achieves grace through pure mathematics: each shell is a ruled surface that…
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- 1958
Felix Candela
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