BODIES SURGED toward the front doors of LAGO, whose opening bash had just reached capacity. The crowd pleaded desperately to security guards for entry. Someone began pushing and faces flattened against glass. Everyone was on the list, but no one could get in. The more intrepid guests circled around the back of the pavilion, toward the dark, brackish lake. Security guards rushed to pull us off planters. Through the windows, a golden pendulum by Artur Lescher and a James Turrell window, radiating neon pink, seemed unperturbed by the invading horde or, for that matter, the steady throb of Tulum
In 2019, there were more than 3,000 official evictions in Mexico City. But thousands more are organized privately, sometimes by force from criminal gangs.
Completed in 2021 in Ciudad de México, Mexico. Images by Jorge Hernández de la Garza / Luis Young. Located in the heart of Roma Norte, the office building arises as part of a wave of reconstruction and citizen reactivation of one of the most.