Mexico

Mexico

The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...

's Tamayo Contemporary Art Museum , located on Paseo de la Reforma

Paseo de la Reforma

Paseo de la Reforma is a wide avenue that runs in a straight line, cutting diagonally across Mexico City. It was designed by Ferdinand von Rosenzweig in the 1860s and modeled after the great boulevards of Europe, such as Vienna's Ringstrasse or the Champs-Élysées in Paris...

, in Mexico City

Mexico City

Mexico City is the Federal District , capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole...

, was opened in 1981 as a repository for the collection that Rufino Tamayo

Rufino Tamayo

Rufino Tamayo was a Mexican painter of Zapotec heritage, born in Oaxaca de Juárez, Mexico. Tamayo was active in the mid-20th century in Mexico and New York, painting figurative abstraction with surrealist influences....

 and his wife Olga acquired during their lifetimes and ultimately gifted to the nation. The museum exhibits it's collection of painting, sculpture and photography, and also organizes temporary exhibitions by national and international artists. The architects were Teodoro González de León

Teodoro González de León

Teodoro González de León is a Mexican architect.- Biography :Gonzales de León studied at the Escuela Nacional de Arquitectura of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México from 1942 to 1947. Thanks to a scholarship by the French government, he worked in France for 18 months with Le Corbusier,...

 and Abraham Zabludovsky

Abraham Zabludovsky (architect)

Abraham Zabludovsky was a Mexican architect. He was the brother of the well-known journalist Jacobo Zabludovsky....

, renowned Mexican architects.

There are plans to create a new building for the museum: in 2009, an architecture competition for the new building was won by Bjarke Ingels Group

Bjarke Ingels

Bjarke Ingels is a Danish architect. He heads the architectural practice Bjarke Ingels Group which he founded in 2006. In 2009 he co-founded the design consultancy KiBiSi...

 in collaboration with Rojkind Arquitectos

Michel Rojkind

Michel Rojkind=Michel Rojkind is a Mexican architect and former musician of Russian-Mexican descent.-Early Years and Education:...

. The cross-shaped building will occupy a steep hillsidein Atizapan

Ciudad López Mateos

Ciudad López Mateos is a city in the State of México, México, and the seat of the municipality called Atizapán de Zaragoza. The municipality takes its name from the nahuatl word Ātīzapan, which is formed by three words: "ā-tl", which means "water", "tīza-tl", which means "white clay" and "īpan",...

, overlooking the city and incorporate a large viewing platform on the roof. At this time, the plans for a new building have been shelved because of lack of funding.