{"id":958588,"date":"2026-11-09T21:02:14","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T21:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/958588\/"},"modified":"2026-11-09T21:02:14","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T21:02:14","slug":"carsten-holler-installs-largest-of-his-slides-in-mexico-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/958588\/","title":{"rendered":"Carsten H\u00f6ller installs “largest” of his slides in Mexico City"},"content":{"rendered":"

Artist Carsten H\u00f6ller<\/a> has installed the largest-ever version of his architectural slides as part of a development in Mexico City led by local architecture studio Sordo Madaleno<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Mexico City Slides is H\u00f6ller<\/a>\u2018s latest slide installation yet and features four slides ranging from 12 to 38 meters in height and 31 to 90 meters in length.<\/p>\n

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The metallic slides with transparent sections cascade around the courtyard of the Antara development in Mexico City\u2019s Polanco neighbourhood, a joint venture between architecture studio Sordo Madaleno<\/a> and its development arm, SOMA. <\/p>\n

It is part of the wider Colonia Granada district.<\/p>\n

\u201cMexico City Slides, which is my largest project with slides so far, connects four different parts of the buildings that make up the new Antara destination,\u201d said H\u00f6ller.<\/p>\n

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Its courtyard location, curated by Arte Abierto, is between several buildings containing retail and offices, including an office for technology company Google. A 43-storey tower for a Mexico City Rosewood Hotel is also planned for the site. <\/p>\n

The slides take people from various parts of the retail, hospitality and office programming down to a central outdoor landing area. <\/p>\n

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\"Walker<\/p>\n

\n Read:\n <\/p>\n

Ten playful interiors with slides at their centres<\/p>\n

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H\u00f6ller emphasised the slides\u2019 role in taking people out of their usual routine through a combination of \u201cjoy and fear\u201d. <\/p>\n

\u201cPeople sliding from a hotel, from offices, from restaurants and from an art centre are brought together in the air and land next to each other,\u201d said H\u00f6ller.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey share the experience of being taken out of their usual form of being, into the unknown, dreamlike territory of simultaneous joy and fear.\u201d<\/p>\n

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H\u00f6ller continued, calling the slides \u201can existential experience of bare life, not unlike a \u2018voluptuous panic upon an otherwise lucid mind’\u201d.<\/p>\n

The artist has designed multiple of these slides across the world. These include installations in a Florentine palazzo<\/a>, woven through the Anish Kapoor-designed ArcelorMittal Orbit in London<\/a> and, with a tower, at Vitra campus<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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\n Photography by Fernando Farf\u00e1n\n <\/p>\n

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