It is bordered by:[2] Landmarks include the World Trade Center complex with offices, restaurants, cinemas and shopping, and the Polyforum Cultural Siqueiros, a performing arts center designed and painted by David Alfaro Siqueiros one of the most important muralists and painter in Mexico.

One of the original developments here in the late 1930s was Parque de la Lama, designed by Raúl Basurto, one of the principal architects of many of the new residential areas in Polanco, Colonia del Valle, Roma, Condesa and others.

The neighborhood was one of the most important spots for new modern architects as Vladimir Kaspé or young Pedro Ramírez Vázquez new buildings.

Also in a section of the neighborhoods, in the 1940s, the covenant required buyers to build single-family houses in a historic style called "Colonial California",[3] (a Mexican term for the California style of Spanish Colonial Revival architecture).

Sample of the architecture in Mid-century modern style, is the house designed in 1946 for the recognized architect Vladimir Kaspé in the corner of the streets of Dakota and Nueva Jersey.