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I wasn’t raised in an observant home, I never attended a Jewish day school and no one else in my family has ever been observant. Despite that, I found myself drawn, starting at age ten, to Orthodox ...

One of the first things that will impress anyone reviewing the work of Cherem Arquitectos is its variety in scale and program. The Mexico City–based firm’s portfolio includes single-family residences, ...

Having felt tremors while staying at Hotel Downtown in Mexico City (winner of Wallpaper's 2012 Design Award for 'best fixer-upper hotel)', the first question I asked its creator, architect Abraham ...

“I didn’t realize how relevant his work is to the reality of today, the struggle between religious conservatism and forces of free thought and liberalism..." It might surprise you to learn that the ...

How do you find spirituality on a tiny site shoehorned onto a frenetic, traffic-clogged corner in the megalopolis of Mexico City? This was the question that Cherem Arquitectos had to ponder when they ...

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Text description provided by the architects. Located near ' El Zocalo’, right in the heart of the old city where the Aztecs first settled and afterwards the Spaniards built churches and palaces using ...

Twelve volumes built with rammed earth form this residence in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, designed by Cherem Arquitectos. The residence, called Casa Candelaria, comprises a dozen flat-roofed ...

These takkanot were called charamot, bans. The penalty for violation was to be put in cherem, exclusion from the community and social ruin. However interesting the contents of other people's mail may ...