- Name of building
- Restaurante Los Manantiales
- Construction year
- 1958
- Structural system
- Shell
- Primary use
- Restaurant
- Architect
- Joaquin and Fernand Alrarez Ordonez
- Architect2
- Felix Candela
- Structural engineer
- Felix Candela
- Constructor
- Professional
- Cubiertas Ala S.A.
- Country
- MEXICO
- Address
- Manantiales,Pueblo Nativitas, Xochimilco, Mexico,D. F.
- Means of transportation
- Walking 2km east from new Xochimilco Station(Tren-Ligero).
mini-bus #20 from new Xochimilco Station(Tren-Ligero) to Tulyehualco. Get off at Pueblo Nativitas. Every 10 minutes. - Admission
- Outside：OK, Inside：OK
Wed-Mon 11:00-19:00/Tue closed. - Reference
- ①Felix Candela, Supervisor; Yutaka Saito, Editor; Naomi Miwa..
Forewords; Felix Candela, Ove Arup, Frei Otto, Mamoru Kawagucxi, Riicht Miyake, Mutsuro Sasaki Published by TOTO Shuppan, Tokyo on August 10,1995, pp.216-219. Japanese Language
②Candela/The Shell Builder, Colin Faber, Reinhold Publishing Corporation, NY, 1963, p.194-197.
③Arquitectos Contemporaneos de Mexico, Louise Noelle, Editorial Trillas, Mexico, D.F. 2nd Edition, 1993. P.31.
④IASS Bulletin No.71+72, September 1979, p.27-38, Fig.35-37.
Notes for History The development of thin shells in Mexico, by Felix Candela.
⑤IASS Bulletin No.88, August 1985, p.5-10. Fig.8.
Felix Candela and structural art, by David P.Billington. - Note
- Shell, RC
Photo taken on February 2,1994 + February 2+5,2001. ③-120.⑩102+103
The owner of Cubiertas Ala S.A. is Félix Candela.
Span：30m. Length：43m. Eaves height：9.33m. Ceiling height：5.83m. Plan：octagon.
