The 20 CDMX buildings you have to know

Data that you cannot miss:

• In 2006, the largest Mexican monolith was discovered. A stone carved sculpture that represents the goddess Tlaltecuhtli, goddess of the earth, who wears the lobby.
• The last archaeological rescue works were carried out in the Cathedral.
• In 2015, a structure of human skulls (Tzompantli) was discovered that appeared in the descriptions of Spanish conquerors and friars.
• Archaeological searches place a hidden passage.

National Lottery

Architecture: Manuel Ortiz Monasterio, Bernardo Calderón and Luis Ávila, in collaboration with the structural engineer Guillermo Martín Plata

City Hall: Cuauhtémoc

Inauguration: 1945

One of the Art Decó jewels located in the city center, just before entering Juarez, in one of the main avenues. It is one of the first skyscrapers of the State, which was known as El Moro, for its similarity to a Moorish store. Its architectural relevance is vast, since it gave rise to an architectural current that stood out in reform and surrounding avenues, it is also one of the survivors of the style whose function remains the same as that of its inauguration.

FUN FACTS OF THE BUILDING:

• He was the first in the world to be built by elastic flotation.
• The first in Latin America that used a neon gas sign.
• The first place where a television signal was broadcast in 1950.

West zone

These are the most active economic zones, home of skyscrapers and the most luxurious and wide residences of the city. We distinguish this space in the downtown area, because it holds contemporary buildings that bet on designs where luxury, sophistication, technology and aesthetics play a main role. In this list we include some mayor's buildings Cuauhtémoc closer towards Lomasas well as complexes in Cuajimalpa and Miguel Hidalgo.

Calakmul Building «The washing machine»

Architecture: Agustín Hernández

City Hall: Álvaro Obregón

Inauguration: 1997

This is one of the key buildings in Santa Fe, the work of one of the minds awarded with the Honorary Prize for Design icons. His name refers to the old Mayan city of Campeche and his nickname was popularized by the city due to the incredible resemblance to the appliance. Its architecture follows the artistic principles of Mayan structures, which sought to represent nature, in that sense, its structure is far from being a washing machine, since the square represents the earth and the central circle the sky.

Arcos Bosques Torre «El Pants»

Architecture: Teodoro González de León, J. Francisco Serrano and Carlos Tejeda

Mayor's Office: Cuajimalpa

Inauguration: 1997

Located in forests of the Lomas and holder of the highest helipad in the forests of Las Lomas and Santa Fe, located 2,560 meters above the middle level of the sea. The well -known «pants» was the fourth highest building in the city until 2009 and its history begins in 1980 when the City Government granted permits to build buildings of more than 161 meters on the land of section XVII of forests of Las Lomas. Arcos forests, currently, is a corporate and commercial space where there are high prestigious companies, as well as stores, restaurants and recreational spaces for premises.

BBVA Tower

City Hall: Cuauhtémoc

Inauguration: February 9, 2016

In front of the main tower (another of the structures cataloged as the safest of the globe), the tower responds to a post-modernist design and, as the name implies, is the headquarters of the BBVA Bank of Mexico and Latin America. The building is an interesting architectural commitment, because in addition to holding an indisputably beautiful aesthetic, it reinterprets the traditional organization of offices to create new work environments that generate more human and sense of community spaces.

One Chapultepec

Architecture: Workshop G and Kmd Architects

City Hall: Cuauhtémoc

Inauguration: January 2019

This is the most recent tenant in the city and deals with a skyscraper of mixed uses with 241 meters high and 58 plants, its construction began in 2014. The Ritz-Carlton Mexico City, is located at the last levels of this skyscraper, important factor, since its guests are housed in the financial epicenter of the capital and, at the same time, with a view to the most important lung of the city of Chapultepec. Its silhouette is slender and transparent to the landscape that surrounds it, reflecting the historical memory of the city center and taking full advantage of the space that inhabits 241 meters high distributed in 60 levels. At the structural level, the building is equally intelligent because it was designed to resist earthquakes of up to a magnitude of 8.6 degrees on the Richter scale.

Torre Viceroyes «El Dorito»

Architecture: Teodoro Gonzales de León

Mayor's Office: Miguel Hidalgo

Inauguration: 2014

An inverted trapeze that has given rise to his colloquial name rises to the west of the city, also known as Torre Pedregal 24. Its architecture represents a challenge to the gravity made by one of the master minds of architecture still alive. However, imposing architecture is not the only thing it has to show off, as it hides a meticulous engineering work after the crystals that reflect the surrounding environment. At the same time, the building has first level adjustments for environmental care.

Air in the air

Architecture: Agustín Hernández

Mayor's Office: Cuajimalpa

Inauguration: 1991

This is one of the milestones of Mexican architecture of the late twentieth century and one of Hernández's flagship projects for its daring structure and symbolism that, like the rest of his works, refers to a reinterpretation of pre -Hispanic structures with the futuristic and challenging air that characterizes the architect. Hernández places his style within an optimistic current, because he made it as an abstract concept residence that never loses sight of the true sense of living.

North zone

Understood by the mayorships Venustiano Carranza, Gustavo A. Madero and Iztacalcoits projection is due to a popular logic outside the luxury and the show off of the aforementioned. In that sense, its two representatives are testimonies of two different epochs that should not be set aside, since they occupy the local historical memory of those to whom the city leaves behind.

Guadalupe Basilica

Architecture: Pedro Ramírez Vázquez, José Luis Benlliure, Alejandro Schoenhofer, Fray Gabriel Chávez de la Mora and Javier García Lascuráin.

Mayor's Office: Gustavo A. Madero

Inauguration: December 12, 1976

We had to think of a mega project with the ability to house the mega annual pilgrimages that culminate in the new Basilica of Santa María Guadalupe, which receives around 20 million visitors a year. It is one of the milestones of sacred architecture and the most visited globally, only surpassed by the Basilica of San Pedro in the Vatican. Its location responds to one of the best -known Marian events from which Juan Diego was canonized after witnessing the appearances of the Virgin of Guadalupe.