Everything about The Torre Mayor totally explained
The
Torre Mayor is a
skyscraper in
Mexico City,
Mexico. With a height of 225 meters (740 feet) to the top floor, and 55 stories, it's the tallest building in
Latin America, surpassing in mid-2003 the 220 meter (724 feet) high towers of
Parque Central Complex, in
Caracas,
Venezuela, which were, between 1979 and 2003, the tallest buildings in Latin America. The Torre Mayor was developed by Canadian businessman
Paul Reichmann, who also maintains part ownership. It is also part-owned by a group of institutional investors. The building was designed by the architecture firm, Zeidler Partenership Architects.
Located at
Paseo de la Reforma #505, it was built by Canadian-owned
Reichmann International on the former location of the
Cine Chapultepec. Construction work began in
1999 and was finished in late
2003. Due to
Mexico City's high propensity to
earthquakes, the tower incorporates several anti-earthquake measures. In fact, this building shares the title of the strongest (in matter of pro-earthquake engineering) building on Earth alongside
U.S. Bank Tower in
Los Angeles, California. The Torre Mayor building is designed to withstand an 8.5 intensity earthquake in the Richter Scale, compared to the U.S. Bank Tower that can withstand an 8.3 intensity earthquake.
Explosive device
On Friday, 31 August 2007, a homemade explosive device attached to a cell phone was found in a car parked in the building. The device was removed without incident after an anonymous phone tip prompted the authorities to evacuate 10,000 people from the building.
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