BNS Corporate Building / Gabriel Beas Arquitectura

The building where Corporativo BNS currently stands was built in 1905. It’s located in Colonia San Rafael, one of the oldest neighborhoods in Mexico City and it is a space where history and modernity coexist in every corner. The project was developed in a house that has a typical scheme for the period it was built in, with an interior patio that connects all the rooms through an open porch. The building was first used as an office in the seventies and had an annex built for the suitability of the installation of workspaces. This addition continued with a similar arrangement, a single gallery and sequential distribution between the different spaces. However, the construction system, the materials and the height of the stories are different. Over the years, different rooms and roofs were added and the patios were covered so that these areas functioned as workshops and multipurpose spaces.