Torre Bicentenario

Torre Bicentenario

Infobox Skyscraper
building_name =Torre Bicentenario
location =Pedregal 24, Molino del Rey Lomas de Chapultepec, Mexico City
coordinates =
status =Cancelled
groundbreaking =late 2007
constructed =2007-2010
est-completion =September 16, 2010
opening =November, 2010 - January 2011.
destroyed =
use =Commercial
antenna_spire =
roof =300 m ( official ) 350 m ( unofficial )
top_floor =295 m
floor_count =70
elevator_count =
cost =US$ 610 million
floor_area =390,000 m2
architect =Rem Koolhaas
engineer =Arup
contractor =
developer =Grupo Dhanos
owner =Grupo Danhos, Pontegadea

The Torre Bicentenario ("Bicentennial Tower") was a supertall skyscraper project planned for construction in Mexico City. If built, at 300 meters (984 ft) tall, it would surpass the Torre Mayor as the holder of the title of Tallest Building in Latin America. However, such title is uncertain, as Costanera Center's main tower in Santiago, Chile, is reaching the same height. And though both heights are handled as "a minimum of 300 meters for each tower", Torre Bicentenario would have had a roof height of 300 m., while Costanera Center`s main tower's last floor tops at 258 m. Both towers, however, will be surpassed when "Los Faros de Panamá", in Panama City, Panama, reaches 346 m. in late 2011. Torre Bicentenario was officially canceled, as announced by the local government and the involved investors on September 28, 2007. However, some facts indicate that the tower might be built, but not to be completed on the scheduled date.

Name and design

The inauguration date was planned to be September 16, 2010, which is the day of the 200th anniversary of the Mexican War of Independence, hence the building's name. The building was designed by renowned Pritzker Prize winner Rem Koolhaas, who took inspiration from the Pyramid of Kukulkan at Chichen Itza. Of its 70 floors, about 85% were being planned for offices, and the rest to commercial public services such as restaurants, auditoriums and a convention center.

The tower would have featured an interior atrium, starting on the 15th floor and ending way up to the 40th floor. This in order to allow air and light to flow freely inside the tower and providing natural light to some inside offices. There was also a skygarden planned where the two pyramids meet.

Arup was responsible for the tower's engineering. The 300-meter tall tower would have stood on a rocky site, with a low-conductivity for seismic waves.

Controversy

The Torre Bicentenario Project was controversial from the beginning because of regulations in the area that ban construction over three stages tall, as well as irregular funding and previous acts of corruption from construction companies to members of the party that governed the City at that time. Nevertheless, Mexico City's government gave the project irregular backing and made exceptions to building rules and environmental regulations for the building, whilst trying to sell it a as an achievement for the city. Population in the adjoining areas showed complete opposition to the project from the start, but the government continued forward, trying to market it as an accomplishment because it would become the tallest building in Latin America. Aside from the special treatment awarded to the builders, the ban on tall structures in the area and the problems perceived by the area's resident, the Torre Bicentenario Project was also opposed by the federal agency for Culture and the Arts, INBA which had declared (since August 13th, 2007) that the building that stands on Torre Bicentenario's projected site, a petrol station known as "Super Servicio Lomas" which was built by architect Vladimir Kaspe in the 1940s on a revolutionary and functional model was catalogued as a building with artistic value. Another point of contention against the project came from the local administrator (Jefa Delegacional) (Borough) Miguel Hidalgo, Gabriela Cuevas because of the planned construction of an underground parking lot under part of a public park Chapultepec Park. The project was eventually cancelled.

ee also

*Torre Bicentenario II

=External links=
* [http://www.oma.eu/index.php?option=com_projects&view=project&id=497&Itemid=10 Torre Bicentenario project page at OMA] , Rem Koolhaas' firm
* [http://www.torrebicentenario.com Official site in Spanish]
* [http://www.arup.com/americas/newsitem.cfm?pageid=10143 The tower on Arup's website]

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* cite news | first= | last= | coauthors= | title='Tiembla' la Torre Bicentenario | date=July 23, 2007 | publisher=Reforma | url =http://www.reforma.com/ciudad/articulo/407/812557/default.asp?PlazaConsulta=reforma&DirCobertura=&TipoCob=0 | work = | pages = | accessdate =2007-07-23 | language =Spanish


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