Architecture Through the Ages, Part 5: The 1920s

After our food tour, it's time to start walking again, to continue our architectural tour. Mexico City is an Art Deco paradise, especially in the Condesa neighborhood, where we ate so many good meals. Few of the buildings are individually as flamboyant or beautiful as those of South Beach, but there are a great number of them, including small apartment buildings ...


... medium-sized ones ...


... large ones ...


... office buildings ...

... even an abandoned jai alai fronton:


Many of these buildings appear to have been abandoned for years, but don't rush down there expecting to pick something brilliant up for a song: apparently these buildings are often vacant not because no one wants them, but because of tangles in the titles and estate courts.