The agile office tower “Torre Reforma” in Mexico City by L. Benjamín Romano wins the competition for the world’s most innovative high-rise building, which is endowed with 50,000 euros. The International Highrise Award was launched by the City of Frankfurt in 2003 and has been awarded every two years since then. L. Benjamín Romano accepted the prize statuette and the prize money last Thursday at the ceremony in Frankfurt’s Paulskirche.
Photo: Moritz Bernoully.
Photo: Moritz Bernoully.
Photo: Alfonso Merchand.
Photo: Santiago Arau.
Photo: Moritz Bernoully.
Photo: Moritz Bernoully.
Photo: Moritz Bernoully.
Photo: Moritz Bernoully.
Contrary to the ongoing global trend towards residential towers and ever larger mixed-use projects in Asia, the award-winning “Torre Reforma” is largely an office building with an additional restaurant and fitness center. However, only the type of use is conventional. The prevailing earthquake problems in Mexico City require a clever structural concept that gives the 246-metre-high office tower its significant appearance – and puts Mexico’s capital on the world map of pioneering high-rise architecture.
Baumeister also takes an in-depth look at this innovative project – in the upcoming December issue, which will focus on “Building with steel”.