Torre Manacar

Mexico City / Mexic

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Torre Manacar dominates the skyline of the Insurgentes Mixcoac neighbor

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hood of southern Mexico City. The tower was created by renowned Mexican

architect, the late Teodoro González de León, who famously worked wit

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Le Corbusier early in his career. The commercial focus of the building is at

the base of the tower, with retail and

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restaurant space arranged around

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naturally lit egg-shaped atrium, where

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boomerang

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shaped retail passage

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link the building to the busy thoroughfares of the city. At the heart of th

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space the mural ‘Los Danzantes’ by Guatemalan painter Carlos Merida, orig

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inally designed for the old cinema on the same site, has been painstakingly

restored and reinstated as a nod to the site’s architectural and artistic histo

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ry. Above this the complex geometry of the 29 storey tower is a distinc

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form, visible as it rises above the dome of the atrium. Fitting perfectly with

the architect’s ethos, state-of-the-art water efficient GROHE

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Euroeco

faucet

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were specified throughout.

Teodoro González de Leó

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Architect

Teodoro González de León

Developer

Pulso Inmobiliari

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Project addres

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Avenida de los Insurgente

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Sur 1457, Mixcoa

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Mexico City, Mexico

Date of completio

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2017

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