It features a simple silhouette and an envelope that is oval in form. Because of the change of owners, the plan had to change over time. The skyscraper itself was designed in collaboration with American engineer Bart Sullivan. Read: Japan’s tallest building tops out in Tokyo Pelli Clarke & Partners also managed to maintain an aspect of the original masterplan that included the submerging of an adjacent street underground to expand the pedestrian corridor. The final arrangement features a reduced footprint for the complex, which includes a few smaller high-rise structures that interface with Mitikah on the ground floor. “After negotiations, we remained as designers of the landmark tower which had then become a residential tower.” Canopies were included to orient it to the street level “Under their ownership, all the parameters of the design brief, including almost all the initial design teams for each of the towers and the masterplan were changed,” the studio told Dezeen. However, in 2015 the tower was acquired by a new developer and the master plan completely changed. The tower was originally commissioned in 2007 as part of a masterplan for the area that was also headed by Pelli Clarke & Partners. The tower is a landmark, an hito that provides this connection” It has a facade made primarily of glass “Torre Mitikah is the ‘ventana al infinito’, that meets the human need to reach for the heavens. “We maintained the graduated entrance canopies on Churubusco and emphasized the sky-ground connection by creating a focal point in the heavens with a terminus to a notch on the north and south sides of the tower,” said the studio.
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In order to better connect the 62-storey tower with the surrounding area, a series of canopies were included to create a graduated entry. It rises in a residential area in southern Mexico City Near the historic neighbourhood of Coyoacán, the symmetrical, glass-clad tower rises from an urban fabric that comprises single-family homes and low-rises, so Mitikah is by far the tallest structure in the vicinity.Īccording to Pelli Clarke & Partners, the tower had to relate both to the cluster of skyscrapers miles away on Avenida Reforma as well as the dramatic mountains that surround the city on every side. Pelli Clarke & Partners has completed Mitikah, the tallest skyscraper in Mexico City Mitikah is a 267-metre-tall skyscraper in the Benito Jaurez neighbourhood of the Mexican capital that sits in a complex that includes mixed-use towers and shopping centres. US architecture studio Pelli Clarke & Partners has completed the Mitikah skyscraper, which is now the tallest in Mexico City.
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