Rufino Tamayo Museum, Mexico City

Rufino and Olga Tamayo gave the state a substantial part of their own art collection on the condition that Mexico City build somewhere to show it, and the government answered with a site inside Chapultepec Park, a short walk from Ramírez Vázquez's anthropology museum. Teodoro González de León and Abraham Zabludovsky, partners who had already built the Colegio de México and would go on to the National Auditorium together, designed a sequence of cantilevered concrete volumes stepping down the sloped ground, cast in the same board-marked, bush-hammered concrete the two used throughout their joint practice and left entirely unclad, so that the museum's structure is also its finish. Terraces and stepped platforms outside continue the section of the galleries into the park, blurring where the building ends and the landscape begins. It opened on 29 May 1981, and the two architects shared Mexico's National Award of Science and Arts in Fine Arts the following year for the design. The museum still shows the Tamayos' modern holdings alongside a contemporary collection built from artists' donations since the 1990s.