Torre Latinoamericana

Torre Latinoamericana

The Torre Latinoamericana (Spanish; "Latin American Tower") is a 44-story skyscraper with a total height of 181.33 meters, completed in Mexico City in 1956 . The building designed by the architect Augusto H. Álvarez , which is strongly reminiscent of the Empire State Building , survived the severe earthquakes of 1957 and 1985 unscathed. It therefore received an award from the American Association of Construction and Engineering after the earthquake of 1957 . The building with a total weight of 25,000 tons is founded on 361 piles. The name goes back to the builder of the building, the insurance company La Latinoamericana, Seguros, SA. Leonardo Zeevaert accompanied the construction as a lead engineer. According to a popular rumor, he was the first civil engineer to experience an earthquake in a building he had built.

description

From its completion until 1972, the Torre Latinoamericana was the tallest building in Mexico City and was then replaced by the Torre World Trade Center, the comparison here being based on the building without an antenna. If you refer to the total height including antenna, it was only exceeded by the Torre Mayor . The Torre Latinoamericana is also the first high-rise building on Latin American soil.

Viewing platform

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360 ° panoramic view of Mexico City, seen from the observation deck. On the left the Zócalo in the historic old town, in the center of the picture the Torre Mayor , in the foreground the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Alameda.

Viewing platform

The high-rise has a viewing platform and a restaurant on the upper floors, which can be reached via four elevators. Due to the location in the middle of the city, the visitor has an impressive view over the valley of Mexico in good weather.

View from below

meaning

The Torre Latinoamericana was built in a time of economic boom in Mexico and was seen by the Mexicans as a symbol of their own success. The building is still very well known and respected among Mexicans today.

See also

• List of tallest buildings in Mexico
• List of tallest buildings in North and Central America
• Earthquake-proof construction

Web links

• Torre Latinoamericana. In: Structurae
• Torre Latinoamericano on the Mexico City Official Website
• Torre Latinoamericano on skyscraperpage.com
• World Federation of Great Towers
• Earthquake-proof construction using the example of the Torre Latinoamericana

Individual evidence

1. ↑ DMLINK: Torre Latinoamericana | Historia. Retrieved November 21, 2019 (Spanish). 

Coordinates: 19 ° 26 ′ 2 ″  N , 99 ° 8 ′ 26 ″  W.