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A final piece of Candela’s that I have researched is Los Manantiales Restaurant. This building portrays the same shell-like features as many of his other hyperbolic paraboloid works, and there are no edge stiffeners on the outside of this building to conceal how truly thin the building structure is. Although this structure does not rise quite as high as the Hills of Cuernavaca, it juts out over water daring the forces of gravity to attempt to make it tip over. The interior is similar to his other works, and Candela attached beams into the Mexican soil so that the building did not slide and was fully stable. This restaurant is famous for its beautiful architecture, and this stems from Candela’s creative mind and ideas. 

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