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Palma

Palma es una oficina de arquitectura ubicada en la Ciudad de México y Sayulita. Palma is an architecture firm based in Mexico City and Sayulita.

P A L M A es una oficina joven de arquitectura ubicada en la Ciudad de México, conformada por Ilse Cárdenas, Diego Escamilla y Juan Luis Rivera, todos egresados de la Facultad de Arquitectura de la UNAM. P A L M A is a young architecture firm based in Mexico City. The office was founded by Ilse Cárdenas, Diego Escamilla and Juan Luis Rivera, all of whom studied at the School of Architecture at UNAM.

21/04/2026

Muy contentos de compartir que somos finalistas en el Concurso Internacional para la nueva sede del Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Panamá.

El concurso reunió 363 propuestas de 56 países, consolidándose como una plataforma global para el pensamiento arquitectónico contemporáneo. Felicidades a los equipos finalistas

Gracias a todo el equipo que hizo posible esta primera etapa:

Arquitectura: Palma + TO
Sostenibilidad:
Paisaje:
Estructura:
Colaboradores: Pedro Borba, Gonzalo Peña, Emilio Zárate y Diego Gallegos
Renders: Mateus Varella

Very happy to share that we are finalists in the International Competition for the new building of the Contemporary Art Museum of Panama.

The competition brought together 363 proposals from 56 countries, becoming a global platform for contemporary architectural thinking. Congratulations to the finalist teams productora_df

Thanks to the entire team who made this first stage possible:

Architecture: Palma + TO
Sustainability:
Landscape:
Structure:
Collaborators: Pedro Borba, Gonzalo Peña, Emilio Zárate and Diego Gallegos
Renders: Mateus Varella

08/02/2026

No. 321 January 2026
A New Mood - Mexican Wave

19/12/2025

Casa San Pancho
Nayarit, México

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15/12/2025

El viernes pasado se llevó a cabo en La Térmica Cultural, Ponferrada, la premiación de la XVII Bienal Española de Arquitectura y Urbanismo (BEAU)
Nos alegra compartir que nuestro proyecto fue reconocido como una de las 20 obras ganadoras, seleccionado entre más de 350 proyectos inscritos en esta edición.

La BEAU es uno de los principales reconocimientos institucionales de arquitectura en España y, en su XVII edición · Flujos Comunes, pone el foco en prácticas que entienden la arquitectura como un ejercicio colectivo, situado y comprometido con lo común.

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Last Friday, the awards ceremony of the 17th Spanish Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism (BEAU) took place at La Térmica Cultural, Ponferrada.
We are glad to share that our project was recognized as one of the 20 winning works, selected from over 350 submitted projects in this edition.

The BEAU is one of Spain’s leading institutional architecture recognitions and, in its 17th edition · Common Flows, it focuses on practices that understand architecture as a collective, situated, and socially engaged endeavor.

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12/11/2025

Retour
Competition for a pavilion in the gardens of Villa Medici, Rome
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Retour is a temporal device, anchored in the existing landscape and activated over the course of the festival. It makes use of what is already there, the garden, its rhythms, its residues, and gives it a stage.

It collects the organic traces of the place, what is cut, what falls, what no longer fits, and transforms them into a slow infusion of matter and time, a nutrient fertile liquid returned to the soil it came from.

Laid on a suspended mesh, the vegetal matter dries in the sun, drawing shadows that shift with the days. Later, it is gently pushed into a central void, falling into water where it begins a quiet transformation.

This water, steeped in time and matter, is returned to the garden. The cycle repeats. And when everything ends, the structure, untreated, impermanent, is ground into the earth, dissolving into the very soil it once hovered over.

Retour leaves nothing behind but a gesture, a rhythm, and a fertile silence.

12/11/2025

Retour
Competition for a pavilion in the gardens of Villa Medici, Rome
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This is not a pavilion about ecology. It is a pavilion within an ecology, one where maintenance, decay, and renewal coexist.

Architecture here is not structure, but transition. A place where what has been excluded is allowed to remain, to transform, to reuse.

Care in architecture is often framed as protection: of heritage, of users, of form Here, it is reframed as reciprocity. Taking what’s already there, and offering it back transformed. What if, instead of simply occupying space, it gave something back?

A single cut of grass contains the memory of the site. Its scent, its texture, its temporality. Before it disappears, we ask it to stay a little longer.

12/11/2025

Retour
Competition for a pavilion in the gardens of Villa Medici, Rome
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The classical garden is a choreography of control: symmetry, clarity, order.
But its perfection depends on silent acts of erasure: what falls, what grows too much, what no longer fits.

The garden is sustained by what it hides.

Behind every immaculate hedge and perfect lawn lies a quiet choreography.
Gardeners working at dawn, trimming, raking, hauling. Their labor is not part of the spectacle, yet it is what sustains it.

What if, instead of ignoring this hidden cycle, a pavilion could make it visible?
What if, by reusing what is routinely discarded, it could reveal the silent gestures that sustain the garden?

Every week, tons of grass are cut and discarded across the gardens.
A gesture of care becomes waste, invisible, unspoken. Our project reclaims that gesture, extending its life.

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10/11/2025

Craquelures dans le réel ha sido seleccionada como finalista en la XVII BEAU – Bienal Española de Arquitectura y Urbanismo 🎉

Bajo el lema “Flujos Comunes”, la pone el foco en la arquitectura como motor de transformación social, explorando los flujos de materiales, personas, energía, datos y medioambiente.

Agradecemos al equipo comisarial de la BEAU y al jurado por esta distinción, y por reconocer este proyecto que reflexiona sobre la relación entre materia, tiempo y paisaje.

Equipo:
Atelier 110101 (Italia)
KOIZ (Reino Unido)
KRI (España)
Palma (México)
MOFA (Suiza)

Fotografía: Piercarlo Quecchia
Fotografía aérea: Federico Lepre

09/11/2025

Fake Realness is featured in the October issue (No. 1105) of , curated by Bjarke Ingels ().

A project developed in collaboration with .studio for Urvanity Art Fair in Madrid, Spain

09/11/2025

Fake Realness is featured in the October issue (No. 1105) of , curated by Bjarke Ingels

A project developed in collaboration with .studio for Urvanity Art Fair in Madrid, Spain
Images by José Hevia

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Mexico City

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Martes	9am - 5pm
Miércoles	9am - 5pm
Jueves	9am - 5pm
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