The mixed-use Hotel Hyatt Regency Andares complex designed by Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos is the visionary urban complex that has positioned the Puerta de Hierro zone as a new center for the city of Zapopan. The Antares Master Plan formally commenced in 2009 with the building of the shopping mall and the high-rise residential building, but an expansion was always planned.

Hyatt Regency Andares forms part of this master plan, as a significant 70,000-square-meter project containing a hotel and luxury apartments.
Photography: Rafael Gamo
Hyatt Regency Andares forms a visual and spatial backdrop to the interior street of Paseo Andres, a roadway created to serve each of the different uses of the complex internally, which complements the urban layout of the city. The building rises to 41 stories above street level. The ground floor comprises a tree-lined public plaza that connects to this interior street and functions as a distributor for the motor lobby. Photography: Rafael Gamo
The volume rises like a slender prism with its principal fac?ades facing north and south and presenting an enclosure that is modulated vertically into five sections by the window openings, and horizontally by the terraces of the amenities that divide the tower. Meanwhile, the east-west fac?ades are blind, leaving only vertical openings for ventilation. The fac?ades employed a sober palette of materials, with the purity of white concrete elegantly framing the painted black aluminum and the glass.

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