Foster + Partners' Reforma 432 will rival Mexico City's tallest building
Construction is due to commence on a skyscraper by Foster + Partners in Mexico City, set to match the height of the city's tallest tower.
Mexican developers Abilia revealed in a statement earlier this month that it will begin work on the British firm's Reforma 432.
Mexico Daily News reported that Aramburuzabala said the tower will include 57 storeys ? three more than a design description released by Foster + Partners in 2014.
The announcement ? made by the company's billionaire owner MarÃa Asunción Aramburuzabala ? comes after a seven-year-long period of interruptions on the development, formerly called Sky Tower and overseen by real-estate developer Grupo Elipse.
With the extra levels, the tower will match Mexico City's tallest skyscraper, Torre Reforma, completed by local firm LBR&A Arquitectos in 2015. Both towers are named after their location along Paseo de la Reforma, a wide avenue that runs diagonally through the city.
Reforma 432 will occupy one of the remaining plots on the street, at the junction between Paseo de La Reforma and Avenida Sevilla, facing the city's monumental Huntress Diana fountain.
To make the most of this setting, the ground level of the tower will form an open public space connecting to the street, with shops, cafes and restaurants housed in the four storeys above. Early renderings show these as terraces, elevated above ground and protruding out from the central core of the tower.
Offices will occupy the rest of the tower, rising above in...
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