Although Candela's structure lived in the complex with murals by David Alfaro Siqueiros and other artists, the hotel was gradually destroyed once a wholesale chain acquired the land and built a shopping center in it.
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Bacardí bottling plant
Candela also recorded his mastery to conceive light and functional structures with cheap materials in the Bacardí plant, located in Tultitlán, State of Mexico and built in from 1958 to 1960.
On this occasion, The famous concrete shells The architect created six vaults for the bottling plant and Candela was able to experiment in the rest of the complex with folded slabs, cylindrical vaults and umbrella, shaping a set that expresses the variety of its structural solutions.
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Cosmic Rays Pavilion
The project that raised Félix Candela's career emerged in the University City and had a peculiar scientific objective: to become an experimentation center to study the neutron of cosmic rays.
Following the shape of a hyperbolic paraboloid, with the supports at the ends and a minimum thickness of a centimeter and a half, the pavilion became an architectural milestone for the time of its creation (1951) and today works as a play library in the heart of the University City.