- Name of building
- Cuasi-Parroquia de San Felipe de Jesus y la Ascencion del Senor.(Capilla Mirador de Palmira)
- Construction year
- 1959
- Structural system
- Shell
- Primary use
- Church
- Architect
- Guillermo Rosell de la Lama/Manuel Larrosa
- Architect2
- Felix Candela
- Structural engineer
- Felix Candela
- Constructor
- Professional
- Cubiertas Ala S.A.
- Country
- MEXICO
- Address
- the end of Av.Paseo de la Reforma,Lomas de Cuernavaca, Morelos.
- Means of transportation
- Mini bus No.18(Palmira) from the gate of Hotel Casino de la Selva.
- Admission
- Outside：OK, Inside：OK
Inside：19:30=Saturday & 12:30=Sunday only!! - 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. 176-185. Japanese Language
②IASS Bulletin No.71+72, September 1979, p.27-38, Fig.38-43.
Notes for History The development of thin shells in Mexico, by Felix Candela.
③Arquitectos Contemporaneos de Mexico, Louise Noelle, Editorial Trillas, Mexico, D.F. 2nd Edition, 1993. P.31.
④Candela/The Shell Builder, Colin Faber, Reinhold Publishing Corporation, NY, 1963, p.202-209.
⑤IASS Bulletin No.88, August 1985, p.5-10. Fig.9.
Felix Candela and structural art, by Davud P.Billington. - Note
- Shell, RC
Photo taken on January 31 and February 1+6,1994. ③-127
Span：31m. Height：21.9m.
The owner of Cubiertas Ala S.A. is Félix Candela.
