Mexico built the tallest building in Latin America

On July 23, Mexico City's capital authorities announced plans to build the tallest building in Latin America, which will start later this year (2007).

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The building is named Torre Bicentenario, 300 meters high, with an investment of $ 600 million. It is expected that the building has 85 floors and 6 underground parking lots can accommodate 2,500 cars.

The building is located in Lomas de Chapultepec, designed by Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas. He won the Pritzker prestigious architecture award in 2000. The new building will be taller than Torre Mayor, a 225-meter tall, 225-meter-tall structure in Mexico, currently the tallest building in Latin America.

The new building will open in 2010 on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of Mexico's uprising for independence from Spain (1810-2010).'We want to celebrate this event by building the city with a symbol,' said Jorge Gamboa, executive director of construction company Danhos.

The Torre Bicentenario is designed to look like two overlapping pyramids, with the lower tower upside down. The project design was inspired by the Sun Pyramid, an archaeological site of Teotihuacan, about 50 km northeast of Mexico City.

Torre Mayor - today's tallest Latin American building (Photo: Arquinauta)

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