Cuernavaca Railway 780 in Mexico City
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Cuernavaca Railway 780 in Mexico City

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Boxed into the space between a narrow street and the old tracks of the Cuernavaca Railway, this office building stands as a direct architectural response to the limitations of a triangular plot in Mexico City. With an area exceeding 9,000 square meters, the thirteen-floor tower takes up all the available space through a volume that returns to the classical logic of base, shaft, and capital, resulting in clarity and hierarchy in the formal composition.

The structural facade, designed to free the floors of obstructions, allows a spatial flexibility that translates into efficiency and adaptability for indoor use. This modular system neatly organizes its glass elevations, aiming to maximize natural light and bring about a constant visual connection with the urban surroundings. The curtain wall, with a surface area of over 6,600 square meters, transforms the building into a glass box, flooded with daylight.

At street level, the bottom floor presents two symmetrical entrances, on the north and south sides, facilitating circulation. The exposed steel structure – besides evoking the industrial past of the area, which was once peripheral but now a dynamic cultural and economic district – also meets Mexico City’s seismic requirements.

The building’s name, Ferrocarril de Cuernavaca 780, and its proximity to old train tracks (now a linear park) reinforce its link to the history of the place. Thus the tower is not only a functional building, but also an urban gesture of homage to its context, a union of rationality, memory, and contemporary design.