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Ysleta Port of Entry

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2013, Richter Architects. 797 S. Zaragoza Rd.

The Ysleta-Zaragoza International Bridge, first opened in 1938, serves heavy industrial traffic from the maquiladora factories in Ciudad Juarez. For the expansion and security improvement to the port of entry facilities, Corpus Christi architects Elizabeth Chu and David Richter added a row of monumental brick pylons that support a series of dramatically cantilevered canopies, used exclusively by commercial vehicles. While the red brick relates to earlier buildings on site (1990), the scale and profile of the pylons relates to the mountains in the distance.

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Gerald Moorhead et al.
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Citation

Gerald Moorhead et al., "Ysleta Port of Entry", [El Paso, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-EP59.

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Buildings of Texas

Buildings of Texas: East, North Central, Panhandle and South Plains, and West, Gerald Moorhead and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019, 503-503.

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