Arcos Bosques Corporative in Mexico City

The Arcos Bosques office complex in western Mexico City is the result of a winning project for a 1990 competition. It is a high-density real estate development, the largest ever undertaken in Mexico City with an extremely complex program, to be completed in eight stages. The central idea of the complex is to create an urban precinct, a space visually isolated from its surroundings. It consists of two tall volumestwo 160-meter-high towers in the form of a doorframe, rising form a slope covered in vegetation-and three low volumes-six-story buildings distributed on the northern, eastern and western sides of the lot and conceived as urban walls that enclose the complex and at the same time block out views of the surroundings. The facades of all the buildings are of concrete chiseled to expose its white marble grain.