Jai Alai Palace, Centro Tijuana
Tijuana’s Jai Alai Palace, designed in 1926 by San Diego architect Eugene Hoffman (construction finished in 1945), reflects the playfulness and fantasy of Tijuana’s early years.
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Border Wall
New SENTRI lane route in Tijuana: not bad at all
On March 1 2014, Tijuana municipal authorities began rerouting SENTRI lane traffic through the former Ready Lane along Avenida Padre Kino. For the first week, frustrated drivers jammed city streets, making illegal U-turns and running the red light at Ocampo and Segunda trying to figure out how to get to […]
Tijuana Colonias
Businesses still open as Tijuana’s Calle 2a closes for construction project
A sense of ease and tranquility has come to Tijuana’s chaotic Calle Segunda this week. The transformation of one of the city’s main east-west thoroughfares was evident today as bicyclists and pedestrians slowly wandered along between Avenidas. 5 de Mayo and Mutualismo. Tijuana’s Secretary of Urban Development announced on February […]
Tijuana Colonias
Mapping the colonia: Mariano Matamoros, Tijuana
Tijuanense Abraham Ca pores over a map of the Mariano Matamoros neighborhood with local resident, looking for the street where she lives. Using the CPTED method (Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design) artists, architects and community organizers help families identify safe and unsafe spaces in their neighborhoods to help architects and […]
Tijuana Colonias
Healthy Tijuana: Community Supported Agriculture in urban Tijuana
Rancho Bajamosal is located out in the rural area between Tijuana and Rosarito. Owner Adriana Whizar delivers baskets of organics to her growing base of customers every two weeks. And fresh, community grown fair trade coffee from local family farms in Veracruz comes from her friend Cynthia Ramirez Comparán […]
Tijuana Colonias / Tijuana Photo of the Day
Spectacular skaters at Mariano Matamoros
Ultra hip teen skater flies off a ramp and nails the landing at the Vivamos la Calle festival in Tijuana’s Colonia Mariano Matamoros.
Border Wall
More annoyances at the San Ysidro border crossing
I’ve got my SENTRI pass. So why am I sitting for an hour in the Ready Lane now? And why is the SENTRI lane completely abandoned? Just when we thought the agonizing 3-hour border waits might come to an end, Tijuana municipal authorities have intervened, in spite of good intentions, […]
Tijuana Photo of the Day
Ciudad 360: El Norteño exhibition at Tijuana’s CECUT
CIUDAD 360, a solo exhibition and multi-media installation by Alonso Delgadillo, the Tijuana-based urban artist El Norteño. The show opened on February 7, 2014. For more, read here
Tijuana Urban Art
Urban art in progress
Garzón Masabó, Professor of Art at University Autonoma of Baja California, guides young Tijuana urban artist Packo Soria as he moves through the stages to create a stencil. Stenciling draws its appearl from its modern roots in commercial design and signage. The form lends itself to collage, mashups, and activist […]
Tijuana Photo of the Day
¡Rifa las Torres!
Teens ride their horses around Colonia Las Torres located in the eastern Tijuana zone of Granjas Familiares.