Tlatelolco mario pani darqui

Mexico City skyscraper

Torre Insignia (also called Torre Banobras and the Nonoalco Tlatelolco Tower) is a building designed by Mario Pani Darqui located on the corner of Avenida Ricardo Flores Magón and Avenida de los Insurgentes Norte, in the Tlatelolco housing complex in Cuauhtémoc in Mexico City. At its completion in 1962, the tower became the second tallest building in Mexico after the Torre Latinoamericana. The tower is not currently in use and is being renovated. It is the tallest building in the Tlatelolco area and the third highest in the Avenida Insurgentes. The building housed the headquarters of Banobras. The building has a triangular prism shape and was built with a reinforced concrete frame. It has been remodeled at least twice and houses one of the tallest carillon in the world, with 47 bells made by Petit & Fritsen.

Descriptive Report

• Its height is 127 m (417 ft) and it has 25 floors
• It is shaped like a triangular prism. The building has become an icon of Mexico City and especially the Avenida Insurgentes Norte. The logo of the station of Metro Tlatelolco carries the silhouette of the building. The station is located very close to the building on the Avenida Manuel González.
• The skyscraper's total floor area is 22,033 square metres (236,806 square feet)
• 7,716 square metre (83,056 square foot) surface

History

After the excessive growth of Mexico City and especially the central Tlatelolco area, there was the need to start building vertically, which meant constructing housing office and apartment buildings with a height of over 20 floors. With the space requirement and due to rising incomes in the city, the buildings were thought to be in a strategic area, and with this in 1959 construction began with completion by 1962. It remains a challenge for this area as it is in a seismic zone, which was the fourth building in Mexico City and in the world with Torre Anahuac, Edificio

(http://www.tlatelolco.inah.gob.mx/)

According to colonial Aztec codices and chronicles the twin city of Mexico – Tlatelolco was founded by an Aztec nomadic tribe, or ‘Calpulli’, in 1338. It became known as the Tlatelolca tribe, while their immediate neighbor to the south established Tenochtitlan and was called Tenochcas. The two cities had grown together as twin settlements, Tenochtitlan as the political seat of the empire, and Tlatelolco stood out as its commercial heart.           Tlatelolco means “Sand mound” and  is located in what is known as Plaza de las Tres Culturas, space around which are concentrated three periods of Mexico: the pre-Hispanic (the temples of Archaeological Zone), colonial (the Church and Convent of Santiago) and contemporary (the buildings of the Nonoalco-Tlatelolco Housing Unit and El Centro Cultural Universitario Tlatelolco ).

Templo de Ehécatl-Quetzalcóatl:

This temple is an unusual mixed plant, i.e., the main body of circular and rectangular façade, with a staircase to the street looking towards the East. It was dedicated to the wind god Ehecatl, whose shrines had a typical round plan.                                                                     Between 1987 and 1989 was an excavation along the front deck, where were discovered 41 burials and 54 offerings involving Marines in pots, figurines made of ceramic, stone, shell, etc. Archaeologists believe that this massive human offering was related to an extraordinary ceremony carried out during a great drought occurred between 1450 and 1455.

Altares Circulares Superpuestos:

The altars seen here were known as momoztli (or clay altar) and served as the place where townspeople could leave offerings for the gods.

Templo Calendárico:

A double stairway graces the main façade of this temple.

The secondary façades are decorated with panels, each of which has three niches containing symbols of the days, in groups of thirteen, which correspond to the Mex

Mexican architect

For the Mexican Olympic shooter, see Mario Pani (sport shooter).

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Pani and the second or maternal family name is Darqui.

Mario Pani Darqui (March 29, 1911 – February 23, 1993) was a Mexican architect and urbanist. He was one of the most active urbanists under the Mexican Miracle, and gave form to a good part of the urban appearance of Mexico City, with emblematic buildings (nowadays characteristic of Mexico City), such as the main campus of the UNAM, the Unidad Habitacional Nonoalco-Tlatelolco (following Le Corbusier's urban principles), the Normal School of Teachers (Mexico), the National Conservatory of Music and other big housing projects called multifamiliares. His son Knut is a well-known artist.

Early life and education

Mario Pani Darqui was born on March 29, 1911, in Mexico City, and moved to Europe in early childhood. His parents were Dolores Darqui and Arturo Pani–Arteaga.

Pani attended the Marist College, a Marist Brothers Catholic school in Genoa, Italy for three years (now Istituto Champagnat, Genoa); followed study at San Carlo College (Collegio San Carlo) in Milan, Italy; and the Lycée Janson-de-Sailly secondary school in Paris for four years. Pani continued his education at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris for six years.

Career

In 1938, he began the journal Arquitectura Mexico, which was published until 1979. He introduced the International Style in Mexico, and was the first promoter of big housing Tower block projects. Pani was a great innovator of the urban design of Mexico City, and was involved in the construction of some of its newer parts, developing or participating in the more ambitious and important city-developing plans of the 20th century in Mexico, like Ciudad Satélite (along with Domingo Garcia Ramos and Jose Luis Cuevas), Tlatelolco