The Tallest Tower In Latin America
Group Danhos has commissioned the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) to design Torre Bicentenario in the centre of Mexico City which will become the tallest building in Latin America. Completion is scheduled for 2010 to coincide with the 200th anniversary of Mexico’s Independence.The building will accommodate over 160,000 sqft of office space, a convention centre, site museum, gym, as well as retail and restaurants. The 300 meter tall building will be located at the intersection of Reforma and Anillo Perife Rico, in the northeast corner of Mexico City’s Chapultepec Park, home to the Presidential residence.
Looking like 2 inverted pyramids bridged by a lobby where shuttles and elevators pass thru, it boasts a viewing deck over the park and the city. Two voids penetrate the building at its widest point providing ventilation and natural light. Whilst traditional high-rises tend to internalize this feature with an atrium, the Torre Bicentenario projects it onto the facade cutting into the building. A pattern of reflective glass panels covering 50% of the interior surface maximizes light penetration. The void twists at its midpoint, opening at the bottom toward the park and at the top toward the city, connecting the building to its surroundings.
Architect: OMA
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Might not be the tallest building in the world but its one of the most stylish!
The building looks like it has a bun in the oven. Perhaps it will spawn a few buildings around it to even out the skyline.
I’d like to see the structural designs to support that somewhat “cantilevered” design.
I’m not so sure that Mexico City is the place to build this building. It’s probably the most seismically unstable major city you could find outside of Japan.
I’m sure they put that one flat side on the building so that when the next big earthquake comes and knocks the whole thing over, it’ll have something to land on.
The design is great, and it isn’t “Perife Rico”, it’s Periférico.
The other interesting thing is that Mexico City is sinking. Something about the city being built on an aquifer. They get all their fresh drinking water from that aquifer and every time someone takes a drink, essentially the city sinks ever so slightly.
OMA has designed some truly brilliant and unique buildings, and I’m fortunate enough to live right next door to one their biggest and most unique projects ever: the CCTV Headquarters in Beijing. I take photos of it nearly daily, it’s amazing to see the massive towers skewed.
maybe OMA keeps designing skewed buildings because they forgot to turn on ORTHO in AutoCAD (only funny to people who do draw this crap daily). I like it because it’s different but hate it because it doesn’t “say” anything. Is it an arrow pointing to a Mexican Mecca? Is it an extension of something of the culture? How does it relate to the city, people, culture, area, etc… eh - another instance of architecture without concern for context (quite irritating).
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All these haterz need to stop because Mexico city is the largest CITY IN THE WORLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOW U CANT BEAT THAT RIGHT!well i think the building symbolizes the pyramids of myans and the aztecs.so i suggest urll dont say noting.
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Well if the info on skyscraperpage.com is correct, there’s a building topping over 300 meters being built in Panama City, so how is this building now regarded as the tallest in Latin America?
WLE: all the buildings in Panama have been cancelled or they are just plans .
I think the race for tall buildings belongs to countries with strong economies. Most people in Mexico City are against the construction of this building anyway since the politicians and buisness men are bending laws and breaking others in order to build the damed thing. Also, if this building is supposed to be the most important Mexican building, why is it not designed by a Mexican?
Any tower and structure built in Mexico city is taller from any other, not matter where is built. The reason being Mexico City seats at 2250m or 7400 feet above sea level, or put another way, about one and-a-half miles up in the sky!
To be fair the tower design is nice and OMA ldid a great job as always. I don´t think they have a say on the location where the buildings are to be placed. Mexico city is located on the top of a volcanic range and the San Andreas geological fault, same as LA and San Francisco.
So you might be lucky not to get the top floor at this tower, not for me at least.
kinda has a “homeworld” or “halo” look to it, looks great.
That thing looks like it’s about to fall over.
hey cool tower
regarding the comments made by mario ,if this building is suppose to be a very important mexican building. why was it not built by a mexican. Even the united states has to lmport designers to build their tallest buildings. A good example is the spire building in chicago,Is going to be the tallest residentual buiding in the world, well be 150 stories tall. Design by a spaniard name santiago .I called this globalization
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