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March 3, 2011 — Armed with a hammer in one hand and a firearm in the other, the Seabees have forged their place in American history for the past 69 years. They made their way through America’s fiercest battles with the motto “we build, we fight” engrained in their hearts. Led by the building plans made by the Navy Civil Engineer Corps officers, who celebrated MORESearch results:

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Guadalajara is emerging as Mexico's architecture hotspot, as young firms forgo Mexico City for better chances to test ideas and stand out.

Contemporary Mexican architecture is still often associated with modernists like Luis Barragán, whose colourful surfaces and emotive spaces ensured a place for the country in the 20th-century architectural history books.

But now Mexico is experiencing a second wave of progressive design, as a result of a changing economy and attitude.

"Architecture in Mexico is evolving," said Abraham Cota Paredes – one of several Mexican architects reinvigorating the style of the country's built environment.

"We have a growing middle class but the salaries are very low, so we have to be smart enough to build beautiful architecture with low budgets and low energy costs," he told Dezeen.

Although some of the