What’s the importance of repopulating the old neighborhoods? First of all, and as our collaborators write in their articles in this issue of Domus México, America Central y el Caribe, there is a search for more sustainable cities and the necessity of giving them back the life they had decades ago. Although each country is unique, this trend is common.

The ultimate work by Mexican architect Alberto Kalach, TORRE 41, synthesized the use of concrete and steel, in a small eight floor building that confirms this designer as one of the most important in Mexico City nowadays. In Monterrey there’s also a great tower with apartments, office center an shops, the MAGMA by  Architect Gilberto L. Rodríguez. Another architects team from Mexico, the renowned Legorreta + Legorreta, created a textured tower in Guatemala City, that grows above the entrance plaza, incorporating the human scale inside the building.

Costa Rican architect, Bruno Stagno, demonstrates the work and research that he has been doing with the Tropical Architecture Institute. Bioclimatic architecture creates Torre Le Parc, an elegant apartments building in an exclusive San Jose neighborhood, that interacts with the climate, minimizing energy consumption.

Panamá is the city of skyscrapers and one of the newest is the Sortis Hotel by David Bettis y Teófilo Tarazi (BT Arquitectura). This modern construction represents the spirit of this cosmopolitan city with its great contemporary image that stands among the other buildings. 

The project section ends with the last great Frank Gehry’s museum for Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris. And this is represented by an architect’s sketch on the cover of this Mexico, America Central y el Caribe, January and February issue.