Suleman Anaya

New York

Writer at Freelance

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Articles

Michan Architecture and Parabase’s pavilions at Mexico City’s Jardín y Pabellón Escénico Chapultepec plant a new paradigm for performing arts in urban park environments

2 months ago | archpaper.com | Suleman Anaya |Kristine Klein

One of the world’s great urban parks, Mexico City’s Bosque de Chapultepec is at once the main green lung oxygenating the metropolis’s infinite sprawl; a respite for countless families that, looking to unwind, flock to its playgrounds, lawns, and cultural sites every weekend; and in need of rehabilitation. Its fraying edges are not surprising given that the forest’s history can be traced back over 3,000 years.
In a Mexican Town Known for Big Waves, a Stylish New Hotel

Feb 6, 2025 | ourcommunitynow.com | Suleman Anaya

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In Mexico City, an Artist Creates a Hidden, Light-Filled Sanctuary

Dec 2, 2024 | nytimes.com | Suleman Anaya |Ana Topoleanu

JOSÉ LEÓN CERRILLO never thought he'd live in a French-style turn-of-the-20th-century townhouse. For nearly 15 years, the 48-year-old Mexican artist had rented a boxy midcentury dwelling in Mexico City's quiet Anzures neighborhood that'd proved the perfect background to his Modernist-leaning geometric installations. After its owner declined to sell the property, Cerrillo spent years looking for something similar.
Studio Mumbai and Studio Méditerranée convert nunnery into Hôtel du Couvent

Oct 21, 2024 | aninteriormag.com | Suleman Anaya

In its over four centuries of existence, the Couvent de la Visitation in Nice, France saw many residents come and go. First the sisters of Sainte-Claire for whom the convent was erected starting in 1604. After being declared a historic landmark in 1989, part of the large structure briefly functioned as a shelter but was finally vacated in 2009.
Muelle de San Blas in San Blas, Mexico by Colectivo C733

Jul 28, 2024 | architectural-review.com | Suleman Anaya |Kristina Rapacki

A sheltered hall and public park on a quay in the Mexican town of San Blas has been embraced by its communityThis project was commended in the 2024 AR Public awards. Read about the full shortlist hereFew would expect to find a well-designed and functioning – let alone inviting and eye-catching – contemporary structure in the municipality of San Blas.
Ground stroke: Cabo Sports Complex in Baja California Sur, Mexico by Taller Héctor Barroso

Jun 24, 2024 | architectural-review.com | Suleman Anaya |Reuben Brown

In Los Cabos, Taller Héctor Barroso composes a subdued sports venue out of horizontal lines, negative space and rammed earthA rugged corridor snakes down from the desert plateaus of the Baja California peninsula to its prized seafront. This is one of Mexico’s premier holiday destinations, but its natural splendour is at odds with the built environment’s mediocrity.
Revisit: James R Thompson Centre in Chicago, US by Helmut Jahn

May 20, 2024 | architectural-review.com | Suleman Anaya |Reuben Brown

Having narrowly escaped total demolition, Chicago’s pomo people’s palace will be remade in Google’s image‘Now we’re replacing the state with Google,’ says the fresh‑faced Evan Jahn, son of high‑tech postmodernist Chicago architect Helmut Jahn and president of his father’s firm. Delivered in Starship Chicago II (2023), a documentary by Nathan Eddy, it is a praiseworthy statement, for its truth on both literal and metaphorical levels.
An Opaque Philip Johnson House Reopens After 15 Years

May 3, 2024 | nytimes.com | Suleman Anaya

The architect Philip Johnson's Glass House, a rectangular glass-and-steel residence set on a grassy shelf above a wooded bluff in New Canaan, Conn., has epitomized a certain East Coast ideal of midcentury elegance since its completion in 1949.
PIN–UP | SETTING THE TONE: AN INTERVIEW WITH JOSHUA SERAFIN

Apr 8, 2024 | pinupmagazine.org | Suleman Anaya

At the end of March, the second edition of TONO came to an end in Mexico City’s vast, perennially water-starved landscape of futuristic towers, ancient cathedrals, and modernist ruins. Curator Samantha Ozer launched the festival in 2023 as an avant-garde showcase for time-based artworks by local and foreign artists, presented at under-the-radar venues across the city.
Tatiana Bilbao ESTUDIO designs an aquarium in Mazatlán, Mexico

Apr 3, 2024 | archpaper.com | Suleman Anaya

Located at the confluence of the Sea of Cortez and the Pacific Ocean, Mazatlán was called Mexico’s “Pacific Pearl” in the 1950s, when it was a favored destination for Hollywood stars. In recent years, there has been an attempt to revive some of Mazatlán’s bygone luster. The city’s historic center has been meticulously restored, and some of the midcentury mansions dotting its hills are yet again hosting visitors drawn by the area’s cultural and natural wonders.