Artchitect Fernando Romero
What happens when the son-in-law of the world’s wealthiest man designs a museum dedicated to his late mother-in-law? Drama! And Mexico’s most talked-about new building. Click here to read the full article.
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Architect Fernando Romero at the entrance to his studio in Mexico City.
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The Soumaya Museum’s exterior comprises 14,475 hexagonal aluminum plates arranged in a computer-designed honeycomb pattern.
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Carlos Slim, Soumaya Slim de Romero, and Romero in front of the Soumaya Museum.
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A reproduction of Michelangelo’s Pietà (the original is in the Vatican)
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The exterior
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Broad, spiraling ramps give way to expansive gallery spaces
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The Thinker, from Slim’s collection of Rodins, the largest outside of France, awaits installation in the atrium.
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The museum’s entryway.
