Taxco, Querétaro, San Luis de Potosí and the Unesco city of Zacatecas are worth visiting for their shops and bright colonial architecture.
But instead of large tower blocks and grey industrial estates, Ivrea was filled with bright, avant-garde architecture.
In love with rainforests, waterfalls, shooting stars, midnight swims, street food, brutalist architecture, bright lights and German nightclubs.
Bright, pastel-colored architecture and winding streets inundated with shops make buying anything from Cuban Cigars to Rolex watches at a huge discount an easy venture.
But today, aside from its magnificent churches, bright-hued colonial architecture and sprawling anti-corruption murals, León is becoming synonymous, at least among backpacking adventure-seekers, with volcano boarding.
The tower, Grade II-listed in 1995, was seen as a classic expression of the bright and brash pop architecture of the Sixties, inspired distantly by Le Corbusier and Milan's 32-storey Pirelli tower.
Some newly prosperous El Alto residents built multistory "minimansions," whose distinctive architecture incorporated bright shades of green and yellow as well as symbolic serpents and condors, which reflected pride in their Aymara heritage.
Even more prudently, a company like Blu could be directing all that R&D to multi-family housing, currently identified as the only bright spot in residential architecture and, to my mind, the only real path to truly sustainable housing.
Herbert Muschamp tells us that Rem Koolhaas's new Central Library in Seattle is the bright new future where architecture is heading ["The Library That Puts on Fishnets and Hits the Disco," May 16].
"My idea was, what if you took the newsroom of 'All the President's Men,' clean and crisp, with that '70s architecture and bright primary colors, and imagined that it hadn't been cleaned up in 30 years?" Mr. Macdonald said.
