Walking the streets of Polanco on our way to Museo Jumex.

Still lost and heading in the wrong direction we passed this colourful wall, entrance to Hotel Camino Real, Polanco.

Camino Real Hotels have been around since the ‘60s with 18 locations throughout Mexico over the years. None of them compare to this one in Mexico City’s upscale Polanco.

This Camino Real Polanco hotel was originally designed by architect Ricardo Legorreta for the Mexico City 1968 Olympics.

You can find bright colours throughout the property, especially pink and blue, and bold geometric shapes.

Hotel visitors drive in via this pink wall into a motor court dominated by an oversize fountain.

Some people go crazy for this stunning pink wall with its geometric and modern structure - really ?

With a 50+ year history, the Camino Real Polanco has undergone a series of transformations – mainly carried out in 1985 and 2005 – to adapt to changing hotel demands in its private and public spaces.

The wall unique honeycomb-like design gives the hotel an eye catching feature. It looks quite different from every angle.

The hotel has a lot more to offer to architecture lovers, but the iconic pink wall is still its most striking feature.

Nagele, Noordoostpolder, Flevoland, the Netherlands

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After the Noordoostpolder [North-East Polder] was reclaimed from the Zuiderzee [now IJsselmeer] in 1942, the village of Nagele was built in the fifties after a design by the architect group The Eight [Aldo van Eyck, Cornelis van Eesteren, Gerrit Rietveld, Mien Ruys]. The village is built according to strict and linear urban planning and is visited by architecture lovers from all over the world.

Nagele was primarily built for farmworkers, who, up to then, lived near to the farms. Subsequently schools, churches and shops were built, causing a more diverse population. In order to effectuate even more diversity also people who were not directly bound to the Noordoostpolder were able to rent a house in Nagele. Thus lots of people from the busy Randstad area [Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, Utrecht] found their way to Nagele.

Amsteldok is a large office building on Amsteldijk and Trompenburgstraat in the Suth of Amsterdam. It was designed by the Rotterdam based architect Huig Aart Maaskant. Until 2019 the building was called Rivierstaete.

Rivierstaete was built between 1967 and 1973 and used to be the largest office building in Europe at a cost of 40,000,000 guilders. A metal sculpture by André Volten was placed in the Trompenburgstraat in 1972 during the construction period. The building had eight floors in staggered layers. The outside walls were covered with white tiles, making the building stand out among red brick residential buildings. 'The Monkey Rock' soon became the nickname of the Riverstaete buidling.

Several companies were located in the building. The Spyker automobile factory was built here at the beginning of the 20th century, after which the Nestelroy Trompenburg paper factory settled here, which was liquidated in 1968. The consulates of Peru and the Republic of Ivory Coast and the IT departments of the University of Amsterdam and the Hogeschool van Amsterdam were also located in the building. Currently WWP, Ogilvy and UberEats are located in the Amsteldok.

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