This is one of the most inspiring videos I have watched in a really long time. I have never heard of ReUrbano before, but the interventions that they are making in these buildings seem to get everything correct. They take all the best practices from urban theory and apply them simply and ingeniously; activate the street level, provide a sense of privacy and intimacy for living while still being connected to the neighborhood, reuse of historic structures, adding new density while respecting what was there before. I am definitely going to dive deeper into this firm. Really incredible stuff. Thank you for bringing them to the greater attention.

amazed that my introduction to Jane Jacobs was from a Mexico City architect via UKposts - what an age to be alive

Those buildings are seriously insanely beautiful. They're so practical and sustainable as well. Here in most places in America, people seem to want bigger and more for themselves, it incredibly ugly and wasteful. It stuck with me when he said 'Jane Jacobs questions how we design cities', I've had that same thought and think the same thing. Thankfully my state-Vermont- is progressive and environmentally friendly and often strives to be like this. My cut, Burlington has already planned it's development for the future. I hope it ends up like this. Such a beautiful and a,axing video

An inspiring presentation of urban redevelopment that revives a community instead of just densifying it to achieve increased rents. Kirsten, the camera work just gets better. Love the drone dolly shots.

I don't know why I got this video but I so enjoyed it. Reurbano, the Architects you all are truly amazing. I'm sure this video does not cover even one half of the things you went thru and truly, totally transformed. I love it, I would absolutely love to live in one of those historical, brand new modern places. All your work is truly amazing. Thanks for sharing, I so enjoyed it and it makes one think about how your own work could possible spread community, and creativity and come up with something marvelous.

I just came back from DF and most of my friends live in La Roma ...I absolutely loved DF and La Roma even though I only had 4 days to visit. We are already planning a second trip next year! I cannot wait to go back!!!!

This makes me want to move to Mexico City: beautifully done

I appreciate this approach as we as a modern society seem to throw out the baby with the bath water far too often. We can truly learn from any organization that uses the older places and things to continue to mature as a human race. I honestly like the older better but the goal of re-creating neighborhoods and places of business and life together is exactly how and why smaller cities worked well. I applaud this valuable work :-) Keep it up!

Love that he cares so much about the history, wonderful use of space.

FYI - Art Deco was popular from approx. 1925-1940. These houses were built during the Art Nouveau period, 1890-1910.

This made me feel very comfortable and cozy... almost nostalgic in a way, even though I've never been to Mexico. This is going in my favorites playlist for sure.

from the opening shots I thought they were only going to show the modern insert I really like the reuse of the buildings .. bringing new life to the neighborhood, the street .. the mixed use development .. and some lovely drone/aerial shots to establish and provide details

Kirsten I've been watching your videos since you've started. For sure I love the small spaces and now I can see you are moving to "interesting" spaces, in any case all your videos are just amazing!!

Beautiful and elegant incorporation of the old structures and materials with the new.

Classy as hell. Great to see they are also thinking about creating a community. Looks like a nice place to live.

I love your channel. The Mexico City episodes are particularly nice. Buenos Aires has been on same re-urban movement. Maybe you have been or could go. Looks so similar, made me long for the time I was lucky enough to help with a project there. Your audio is spectacular. Drone work adds just enough without over doing it. Glad your style is restrained from the ubiquitous time lapses or 2x speeds. Don't change a thing.

This is my favorite decorator. Thanks Miss Kirsten

really nice urban environment. the contrast between old and new, lush greenery and brick and steel, rich ornamentation and austere modernism, etc. all work well here.

Wow! Realmente maravilloso el trabajo de Re urbano.

I've just come back from a trip to CDMX, unfortunately I've missed this place. Unother reason to go back.

A beautiful seamless indoor outdoor spaces urban rejuvenation

love places like this with the enclaves, gardens, use of existing spaces, it was all very beautiful. thankyou for the tour, best wishes for ReUrbano

I would be interested in hearing on how they secured these old buildings for possible future earth quakes. I loved the spaces.

Ahhhh!! I was just in Mexico City 3 days ago, eating a few blocks away at Contramar. I wish I had seen this before, I would have loved to have looked at this project. I absolutely love these projects.

Am interested in whether the Mexico city building codes now require remodeled or new housing to have better earthquake elements like in Los Angeles, San Francisco. Love the new with the old and anytime a city strives to save areas with such great architecture.

fantastic in a single sentence I can say that this is true architecture wonderful work

Another superb, imspiring video - thank you Kirsten.

Beautiful architecture.

By the end of the 19th Century, the 'Colonia Juarez' used to be 'the' place to live in Mexico City. Anyone who considered themselves 'someone' in the country, ought to have a house (mansion or chateaux style and size) in that neighborhood. Only compared to beauty and wealth were Paris or New York. The predominant architectural style was the Beaux Arts (like this house). I used to live in one of those enormous mansions (18 bedrooms), with a grand main staircase, Tiffany stain-glass 'plafonds' and windows, as well a beautiful cavernous library with the most intricate boiseries of exotic perfumed woods. Even though the Chandeliers were dusty and full of cobwebs, their crystals scintillated with the dimmed light of their low wattage light bulbs. The owners were descendants of the former wealthy family that built the Mansion but had been impoverished by the 1910 Revolution. To make ends meet, they turned their mansion into a 'pension' (boarding house, cleaning and 3 meals included). They used to rent their huge bedrooms to young executives, mid-level government officials and some students (myself). The devastating 8.2 earthquake of September 1985 damaged the 6 storey building next door's foundation, putting at risk our beautiful uninjured 'chateau' (in style, with mansard roofs, terraces, and manicured gardens around). The city condoned both structures and we were forced to vacate as soon as we could. The following night another huge 7.2 earthquake caused even more damage to the already cracked building next door, tilting it dangerously towards our house. At that point, there was nothing else to do but to leave everything inside. A few hours later the old mansion, with all its treasures, art and history was crushed by the architectural ugliness that fell upon her from next door. Nowadays in its place, there's an ugly non-descriptive 'modern' building, like so many in that neighborhood. The house where this cafe is (Havre), with the modern addition on its roof, it used to be one of the 'poor relatives' of the well-off mansions around the corner (Liverpool or London St). You can imagine the splendor of the neighborhood in past times. Much thank you for the memories, Kirsten. I'm glad to see not everything has been destroyed and that theres still people who cares about their past. Cheers.

You make best of architecture video

gorgeous

Very amazing.

Loved the video but I'm curious on how they retrofitted the buildings for the seismic conditions in CDMX. ??? Incredible reuse of beautiful historic architecture. Thank you

Kristen you are my favorite youtuber.

Felicidades por revivir estas construcciones tan maravillosas y tan bellas;ojala estos planes los pudieran extender a algunas propiedades que están en el abandono en el Centro Histórico de la ciudad de México!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Waw the environment beautiful

Wonderful video, thank you for making it.

What an inspiration, Reurbano seems like an incredible firm doing great work!

Beautifully executed! Bravo.

Adhiero a la idea de preservar todo lo que se pueda, pero era y volvió a ser una zona de lujo.

Wonderful Kirsten.

love this, love the jane jacobs reference she is celebrated here in toronto

Great idea, thank you

La majestuosa CDMX

I envy every person living in such latitudes. All year round single panes of that dimension ... a dream

Its so beautiful, complex beauty

something is wrong in my brain ... spanish is my language ... but i can't help read the captions >_

Beautiful video

an exemplary renovation! :)

this area is beautiful, i have to go to mexico city now

Loved the Jane Jacobs wall.

Excelente aplicación

Good. Mexico needs more of this. More investment, more economic progress, whilst saving its historical image! You bringing this here has enriched the area! Ignore the haters, progress is GOOD.

Enjoyed this video, and appreciate the mix of new while preserving the old. My only concern is the absence of discussion of retrofitting for earthquakes. And carriebtc wisely brought up the issue of government corruption to cut corners. I hope the architect has appropriately addressed this issue. Very concerning. Aside from the possible safety issue, it is aesthetically beautiful!

The wooden steps in the upper new apartment are to thin, they bent as the guy walked up them, and he was not paticularly big. An interesting vid, nice to see a different side of Mexico, lovely streets with new and old structured together with such a benign climate.

Awesome.

It seems I'm the only one who doesn't like what he did with those old buildings. but I must admit that it's nice that those houses and areas get to live again in a manner that is appealing to the current society.

very nice

How much would it be to rent or buy a place to here?

This type of project deprives the majority of the opportunity to have decent housing. Many are being evicted or forced to leave because of the increase in rents in the area.Lo que han dicho, gentrificación. Lástima que, al mismo tiempo, este tipo de proyectos despojan a la mayoría de la población de la oportunidad de tener una vivienda digna. Muchos están siendo desalojados directamente u obligados a irse por el incremento de las rentas en las zonas donde se instalan. Y ahora, después del terremoto del 19S/2017 , la industria inmobiliaria está sacando mayor ventaja a costa de la población afectada.

"Urban acupunture" Me encanta la manera que lo describió el.

was this before or after the most recent earthquake? wondering how they fared? a jane jacob devote' :)

Como se llama el entrevistado ?

But are they reinforcing/strengthening the foundation? If they're adding more on top doesn't that necessitate more foundation work, if there is any already at all? I guess the fact that its still standing after '85 is a good sign. The interior is magnificent. You have a great style.

Linda

Los materiales son viejos, las fachadas son contemporáneas.

Me encantaría pasar una temporadita ahí.

Después del covid nada de este espacio es funcional o si?

Kristen, I, We would love to hear your Spanish more after in your videos. Please and thank you! Also do you have a patron account? I would like to donate a buck a month.

Jane Jacobs for the win! You know who would love this? The New Urbanist Memes for Transit-Oriented Teens group on Facebook.

GD I love good urban planning

I was confused, because a guy let is bicycle out site and it wasnt locked. In my County somebody would steal it. (Germany)

You should look up 'art deco' before you start casually (mis)using it.

me gusta

“Privativa”......Fuiste al CONALEP ????....

they had an earthquake, but they built more homes on top of those buildings?

Esta todo muy bien y muy bonito... pero esas colonias y edificios son tan viejos que siempre qué pasa un temblor son las primeras en caerse... sumado al peso extra de la construcción por los nuevos departamentos me temo que sería riesgoso, además la zona tiene un avalúo sobrevalorado, preferiría este concepto pero quizás en lugar “más nuevo” ...Aún así no hay duda de la estética y el arte que aporta la rehabilitación de una casona Porfiriana.

¿Somos una extensión de la calle? O calleeeee porque alarga los sonidos de las letras finales de un modo chocante. Por lo demás es bueno este proyecto para combatir el desmoronamiento urbano. Pero el uso mixto del suelo aveces resulta débil y no alcanza para revivir cualquier zona de la ciudad.

Hoy todo es pasado.... tuvimos todo y no lo vimos

RAYO GENTRIFICADOR

I like your videos, this one is a next example of stylish living :) Nice one. Greetings from my channel, Arne

parchando

Escalera sobre cocina es mala idea. La tierra de los zapatos y escalones caen sobre mesadas de cocina y la comida.

You can just leave your bike unlocked?

No va pa nada esa arquitectura nueva con lo que ya había ahí

My favorite kind of "Arquitectura", and for those who are screaming "GENTRFICATION!" Don't jump to fast to conclusions. You go would have to know the past tenants and the previous interactions to enclose the interventions into something negative.

Very well shot video. The project looks like gentrification. Were affordable apartments built that even the people working in the coffee shops or displaced auto parts stores employees could afford? This huge world wide problem of wealthy investors coming in and fashioning downtowns that leave out 99% of the demographic needs to be addressed and corrected.

Gentrificación ...

Bare concrete walls. Saarinen style window walls. Using them in the same space is disrespectful to old and beautiful architecture. Like dressing an old but still beautiful woman in a gunny sack.

I was waiting to see what they did to that old house and I didn’t like it. I wish they rebuilt like it was before the damages from earthquake. They don’t make houses like that in mexico so why make it modern urban junk.

Gentrification

And the rich move back forcing out the Poor yet again

yo im mexican and i don't see nobody my color in the first 3 min of this vid

It seems really hedonistic to repurpose an habitable space in a restaurant, specially in a city with a serious lack of housing. Not once the subject of self sufficiency of habitable places is mentioned (Water recollection and recycling, energy production and expend, food production). This is just an other aesthetically pleasing project in a city with a serious and long list of problems.

Gentrification =P

Dull.

So, you went from an auto parts dealer, that almost everyone could shop from to a hipster mini mall that only rich people can go to? And that helps anyone but the rich?

This guy is nothing but a bored educated rich kid who was told what to tell us. I know the construction down here and I know these old houses. I'm working on one. The architects don't want anything to do with saving these old houses. It's too expensive and too hard to find the workers with the skills. They aren't saving anything but the facade using concrete and later on they won't save that. I think they had to comply with the earthquake safety requirements and had to tear down those buildings except for those details. I doubt that the ceiling he pointed to was "restored". And I've never heard of a "basement" under any house here. Houses of a certain age, built prior to 1920(more or less) are not allowed to be changed much. The permits are endless. But after that date those restrictions go away. So they are just over the line and maybe have been told to preserve the facade. I suspect that in order to build that high, they had to install supports deep into the ground and up, and created that basement space when they did that. These old houses were built on dirt and were typically made of adobe or stone with some brick. Not a suitable base for their plans. I am restoring an old house with original materials, so seeing them being destroyed, and hearing him talk about increasing density in Mexico City..(?) Ugh! They should have at least provided a person who speaks English when you were doing all that outstanding filming for them. Real estate developers are the same everywhere!

Boring and too repetitive. Im mexican and I wish architects here incorporated indigenous art into their designs... That would be interesting! Indigenous style is very geometric I think it would blend well