Architects:
Grimshaw Architects, New York/USA
Planning time:
2005 — 2006
Construction time:
2006 — 2007
Services rendered by Werner Sobek:
structural engineering of loadbearing structure and special structures (schematic design, design development, review construction documents)
Client:
Parque Fundidora Monterrey/Mexico
Following Grimshaw’s design for the Museo del Acero, some spaces within the 70-meter high furnace structure were converted to to habitable space. Moreover, approximately 96,000 square feet of new exhibition, offices, workshops and educational spaces were added to the existing structures.