La Merced Market

La Merced Market

Photo: Umarina · Public domain

Year

1957

Architect

Type

building

One of the largest covered markets in the world, La Merced's roof is a vast field of reinforced-concrete shell vaults: paraboloid forms inspired by Felix Candela's structural innovations but executed at enormous scale. The market replaced c …

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