A concrete performing arts venue in Cuernavaca, Mexico that sits adjacent to an archaeological site has won the Oscar Niemeyer Award for Latin American Architecture. Started in 2016 by Redbaal, a network of Latin American architecture biennials, the biennial prize honors an exemplary project built in a number of participating Latin American countries. For its inaugural edition two years ago, the awards honored Barclay & Crousse's Place of Remembrance in Lima.

The selected work, picked from a shortlist of 20 projects, was designed by Mexican architect Isaac Broid alongside the firm Productora. Inspired by the Aztec ruins it borders, the Teopanzolco Cultural Center uses triangular geometries, sloping roofs, and sandy coloring to connect with the site—a place where "contemporary cultural life establishes ongoing dialogue with our past," says Broid.

The project has been featured on Time's list of 'The World's 100 Greatest Places of 2018,' and was one of six shortlisted projects for the 2018 Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize.

Take a look at the highly lauded project below.