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Torre Reforma
- Title
- Torre Reforma / L. Benjamín Romano ; texts, Ali Malkawi, Francisco Serrano, Felipe Leal, L. Benjamín Romano ; photography, Iwan Baan, Alfonso Merchand ; English translations and copy editing, Fionn Petch, Quentin Pope.
- Publication
- Mexico City : Arquine, 2019.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | NA759.R66 A76 2019g | Off-site |
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- Description
- 245 pages, 3 unnumbered pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, plans (some color), portraits; 32 cm +
- Summary
- LBR & A Arquitectos, founded in 1976 by L. Benjamín Romano, designs and builds architectural projects based on four main axes: sustainable architecture, architectural structuring, high technology and artistic integration. The Reforma Tower was recognized in 2018 as the best skyscraper in the world for the International Highrise Award. With 57 floors and 244 meters high, it was built on the corner of Paseo de la Reforma and Río Elba, it shares the site with a house dating from 1929 that was displaced from the land to build the foundation of the tower and then returned to its original site. There are two large walls of apparent concrete, displaced in square and that open towards the Chapultepec Forest. The construction process of the tower was a fundamental part of the project, which has been expressed plastically. The structural and spatial complexity of the building is the key to understanding it.
- Uniform Title
- Torre Reforma. English.
- Subject
- Romano, L. Benjamín
- Torre Reforma (Mexico City, Mexico)
- Torre Reforma (Mexico City, Mexico) > Pictorial works
- LBR Arquitectos
- Skyscrapers > Mexico City > Design and construction
- Skyscrapers > Mexico City > Design and construction > Pictorial works
- Skyscrapers > Design and construction
- Mexico > Mexico City
- Genre/Form
- Pictorial works.
- History.
- Architectural drawings.
- Note
- Pages 45-59 comprise layers of plans on clear plastic sheets. Accompanied by loose paper sheet with base plan, for placing behind various overlay sheets.
- "2,000 copies were printed."--Page 248
- Contents
- Foreword / Ali Malkawi -- Presentation / Francisco Serrano -- The renovation of Paseo de la Reforma, 2000-2004 / Felipe Leal -- Regulations / L. Benjamín Romano -- Structure / L. Benjamin Romano -- Flows / L. Benjamín Romano -- Plans -- Construction process -- Completed project -- Anecdotes -- Appendix.
- ISBN
- 9786079489434
- 6079489430
- LCCN
- 2019278985
- OCLC
- on1057774756
- 1057774756
- SCSB-9701696
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries