Bicentennial Tower, Mexico City / OMA: The highest in Latin America
A few days of the Millennium Tower will probably be the highest tower Santiago, showing the Costanera Center, announcing that it would be the highest, but in South America. Not much to step out again relieved by a tower in Panama City or the announcement of the towers and BAF May in Buenos Aires. And so the race for height was installed in South America.
Now OMA was made head of the list, with the announcement of the Bicentennial Tower in downtown Mexico City. The 300m high tower should be ready for the bicentennial of the independence of Mexico, which coincides with that of Chile, in September 2010.
The tower is located on the border between the districts of Las Lomas and Polanco, who are currently separated by a highway. The project includes a pedestrian bridge to reconnect these areas of the city through the project.
The tower is the superposition of two pyramids, which in their union more transparent and houses a large lobby for various vertical and offers great views of the city. A gap through the building at its widest point ventilation and allowing the entry of natural light thanks to reflective inner walls, a re-interpretation of traditional atrium.
The announcement of this tower has not been without controversy, both because of the changes that must be done to regulate the sector plans to build in headroom for up to the danger to air traffic.
