Parques Polanco

Parques Polanco is a 16,924-square-metre (4.182-acre)^[1] mixed-use development in Mexico City at Lago Alberto street #320, Colonia Granada in the new business and residential area of Nuevo Polanco, Mexico City. It was built on the site of Fábricas Automex/Lago Alberto Assembly, a Chrysler assembly plant.^[2] The complex includes:^[3]

• in Phase I, 5 apartment complexes designed by Higuera + Sánchez, A5 Arquitectura, Ten Arquitectos y KMD México
• in Phase II, two towers designed by Edmonds Internacional.
• in Phase III and IV two towers designed by Arditti Arquitectos
• a retail area with banks, restaurants, shops and a large Sport City gym
• a central park designed by Kees Van Rooij, winner of the AMDI 2010 award in the landscape architecture category^[4]
• the 32-story, 449-foot (137 m) BBVA Bancomer back office building (under construction)^[5][6]

The complex has received 2nd place award in the XVIII edition of the "Premio Obras Cemex" awards in the category "Commercial and Mixed Use" (Comercial y de Usos Mixtos).^[4]

References

1. Miquel Adrià, Enrique Martín-Moreno, Grupo Arquitech, Juan José Sánchez Aedo: el centro comercial como nuevo espacio público ("The shopping center as new public space"), p.184
2. Ana Valle, "Usos mixtos apuesta inmobiliaria ante altos precios de terrenos en DF" (Mixed-use development increases in light of high ground prices in Mexico City), El Financiero, 2014-07-09
3. "Desarrollo" (Development), Parques Polanco website
4. "Arquitectos", Parques Polanco website
5. "Oferta inmobiliaria oficinas crece", El Economista, 2014-07-31
6. BBVA Bancomer Back Office Building page on Skyscraper City site