Between 1957 and 1961 Mies van der Rohe designed the offices for the Bacardi plant in Mexico. It was the second work that the architect designed for the company as little time ago, the owner of the liqueurs, Mr José M. Bosch, impressed by the Crown Hall that Mies had designed for the IIT in Chicago, he instructs the headquarters office in Cuba.
The book reflects all the Bacardí for architectural expression in the work of Mies van der Rohe, is the most perfect purity of his forms and spaces. Here are clearly represent its principles and its way of working with the concept "less is more" is always present. In this case uses the principle of "open plan" an area where the game of perfect proportions.
The offices are part of a harmonious architectural ensemble is completed with the area of aging and bottling, designed by the architect Félix Candela. Here we generated combinations of six hyperbolic paraboloids cross hatch shows clearly where each of 30 meters wide.
The work was proposed by the UNESCO as World Heritage Cultural category on November 20, 2001.