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Xochimilco Restaurant
Los Manantiales

Built:	1957 - 1958
Status:	in use
Location:	Near Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico

Xochimilco Restaurant

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Structural Type:

Hyperbolic shell

Function / usage:

Persons involved with this structure
Legend: Phase of works
Role	Name	Part of structure

Architect	Fernando Alvarez Ordóñez
	Joaquin Alvarez Ordóñez
Engineer	Felix Candela

Technical information
	Description	Value
Construction materials used
shell	reinforced concrete
Dimensions

	diameter	42.7 m

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	archINFORM: Restaurant in Xochimilco
	Great Buildings Online: Los Manantiales

Relevant Literature
	Burger, N. Felix Candela, Elegance and Endurance: An Examination of the Xochimilco Shell, in "Journal of the International Association for Shell Structures", December 2006, n. 3 v. 47 .
	de Anda Alanís, Enrique X. Félix Candela 1910-1997, Taschen, Cologne (Germany) , ISBN 3822837237, 2008; pp. 62-65.
	Faber, Colin Candela/The Shell Builder, Reinhold Publishing Corp., New York (USA) , 1963; pp. 194-198.
	Joedicke, Jürgen Schalenbau, Karl Krämer Verlag, Stuttgart (Germany) , 1962; pp. 219-223.
	Picon, Antoine L'art de l'ingénieur, Éditions du Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (France) , ISBN 2858509115, 1997; pp. 549.

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