A few blocks away, the building that was the first Iron Palace (rebuilt after a fire as a replica of the facade of the Parisian warehouse Le Bon I marched by the French architect Paul Dubois in 1888) still keeps details Art Nouveau like the mosaics in green and gold that pursue vegetable motifs. Inside, the iron structure is topped with a huge stained glass on the roof that causes a changing light game during the day.
Although in Mexico Art Nouveau did not impose itself in front of other architectural styles as happened in Europe (the neoclassical and neo -Gothic continued to apply in public buildings even at the end of the 19th century, such as the Mining Palace), other buildings such as the first phase of the Palace of Fine Arts Directed by Adamo Boari in 1905 abounds in resources of this architectural avant -garde, for example, snakes that shape the archesthe smithy of windows and doors In plant forms and others Floral ornaments that become human faces as they approach the windows of the main facade.
In the north of the city, the building that is currently the headquarters of the UNAM Geology Museum Located in Santa María de la Ribera has a style eclectic inside whose pair of staircases with blacksmiths that simulates flowers, lamps and showral Negled with geological motifs, one more sample of the footprint left by this architectural and decorative style in Mexico.
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