Oro Negro HQ by LEGORRETA SEPULVEDA arquitectos / BLANCASMORAN

Mexico City

Oro Negro (black oil) is the new HQ offices of an important oil company located in Mexico DF. After working for several years with Herzog & de Meuron Abel Blancas set up his own studio in Mexico City in 2011 and ON HQ is his first completed work.

Located west of Mexico City within the corporate and financial district boundaries, -ON- Headquarters is the base of operations of a company providing services to the oil and gas industry. After accessing the headquarters through the lobby and its oil pool, the Board Room functions as the project´s epicentre and generates in its surroundings a concourse where most of the company´s activities and interactions take place. This concourse is the crossing and meeting point for directors, associates, assistants, interns, and guests.

The nature of the company´s business is intended to be reflected in the materials chosen to allocate architectural brief. Being TIME the most important component in the creation of the industry´s raw material (oil), textures and surfaces expressing time and its traces where specifically chosen to contain the required spaces in the programme.

ON Headquarters Main Entrance [photo: Rafael Gamo]

ON Headquarters Lobby with Pool [photo: Rafael Gamo]

ON Headquarters Concourse & Board Room [photo: Rafael Gamo]

ON Headquarters Board Room [photo: Rafael Gamo]

Headquarters Assistants [photo: Rafael Gamo]