(above photo Arcos Torre 1 © Eneas De Troya )
Torre Arcos Bosques
Paseo de los Tamarindos nº 400 A
Colonia Palo Alto
Mexico DF, Mexico
Each city and culture creates its own architectural identity that both defines and reflects its heart. Mexico DF, like the country, has a beautiful dynamism that reaches from their Mayan past, through the socialist art movement of the ’50′s, and looks forward into a technological future. The Torre Arcos Bosques is formed from this ideology and portrays it through its grand design.
Known Commonly as “El Pantalon” (the pants) the the Torre Arcos Bosques complex was created by Architect Teodoro González de León. Mr. González is the winner of numerous international architecture awards and worked in France with Le Corbusier. He also designed the very cool looking Museo Rufino Tamayo.
Made of granite, glass and reinforced concrete, this postmodern building measures 161.5 meters tall and holds 32 floor – though in person it feels much larger. Completed in 1996, El Pantalon was the first intelligent building in Latin America that was concepted as future-proof with its integrated technology.
If you visit, be sure to swing by the large mall at Colonia Santa Fe, one of the most posh areas in DF, and worth checking out for other unique architectural sites.
(above photo Arcos Torre 1 & Torre 2)
(above photo Arcos Torre 2)
(above photo Arcos Torre 2 Detail)
(above photo Colonia Santa Fe)
You know you are shopping in the footsteps of giants as in 1938 D.R. Harris was granted the Royal Warrant as Chemists to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth & the Queen Mother and in 2002 the warrant to HRH The Prince of Wales.
El Castillo
Temple of the Frescoes
El Castillo
The ‘Temple of the Frescoes’ was used as an observatory, specifically for tracking movements of the sun
Temple of the Descending God
Background: Carmelita tacos – breaded shrimp, red onion, mayonnaise, lettuce and salsa;
(above photo habanero salsa)
