Report: Highrise Award for Torre Reforma in Mexico City
At the end of last year, Torre Reforma in Mexico City won the title of the most innovative highrise in the world. Its designer, the Mexican architect L. Benjamin Romano, accepted the EUR 50,000 prize bestowed by the City of Frankfurt in November 2018. The award is made every two years. According to the International Highrise Award jury’s summary: the structure is “a masterful expression of a new way of thinking about the highrise”. In the view of the experts, the 246 m high structure with 77,000 m² floor space places Mexico’s capital “on the world map of ground-breaking highrise architecture”. To some, the tower reminds them of an open book standing vertically on its end, to others it recalls the traditional design of the Aztecs. Continuing the book metaphor, the facade represents the page edges.
