TORRE BICENTENARIO, MEXICO, MEXICO CITY, 2007

Mixed-use tower located on the northeast corner of Mexico Citys Chapultepec Park

As Mexico approaches the 200th anniversary of its independence, it is emerging as an increasingly important urban center both in Latin America and the world at large. In an architectural age defined by the pursuit of expression at all costs, the Torre Bicentenario is building whose unique form is responsive rather than frivolous; a building whose form facilitates rather than complicates its use. It is an icon that offers Mexico City and the nation a symbol of the coming bicentennial (the tallest building in Latin America), and an important new element within the city’s urban life.

In 1810, Mexico gained its independence from Spain. 100 years later the Mexican Revolution initiated Mexico’s political modernity. A century later Mexico and its capital stand at the brink of another quantum leap: a nation at home in a globalized world, in which economic prosperity and a new cultural flourishing promise to transform the nation and its capital.

High Rise

Compared with the world’s other economically ascendant regions such as Asia and the Middle East, Latin America has a skyscraper deficit. Poised to harness the economic and symbolic potential of the Bicentennial, Mexico City will celebrate a historic moment with the emergence of a new skyscraper, the Torre Bicentenario.