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Zocalo urban space sketch study

Sketch study of the main urban square, Zocalo, in Mexico City 

Another peek at the wonderful colorful strangeness of the Alebrijes creatures in Mexico City

Looking north from Torre Diana 21st floor...

A composite view of the illustrations from Mexico City voyage

The colors and fantasies of the Alebrijes in Mexico City

Alebrijes are the brightly colored Mexican sculptures of fantastical creatures. The first alebrijes were created by an artist, Pedro Linares. Back in the 1930s, Linares was ill with a high fever and while he was in bed, unconscious, he dreamt of a strange place resembling a magic forest. There, he saw trees, animals, rocks, clouds that suddenly turned into strange  kinds of animals.  

https://www.mexican-folk-art-guide.com/alebrijes.html#.W90V9RpuifA

Here is my sketch in color of one of the Alebrijes in view during the Day of the Dead festival ...

Mexico City view

Painted view looking to the south west from the 21st floor of the Torre Diana building, where the AT&T Foundry is located.

The pointed top building is by LBR + A, the tallest in Mexico City.  It sits triangular in plan and features two perpendicular concrete elevations and one glass facade of the hypotenuse of the triangle.  https://www.archdaily.com/office/lbr-a

The BBVA building in the middle features a distinctive fuschia and bright yellow exterior spiral staircase element, and designed by Ricardo Legoretta.