the new Tenochtitlán
la ciudad de MéxicoMX
Mexico City is sinking. Six centimetres a year. Gently. Naturallyly, it was not a good idea to erect a city on a small island in the middle of a lake. And even more so, to later drain Lake Texcoco and drive the foundationsrings of a multi-millioncity into the mud there.
Despite everything, it is a city that continues to move. Even if it is not always clearly in which richting. It is part of its counterdictory nature: a city obsed by its past, but open to everything new. With an architecture that, throughtroughdenis to this day, has been repeatedly defined by the specific relationship between mass and emptiness, between monolitic monumentality and open space.
It is amazingawakening how Mexico City is the only one in planopli’s travelportfolio that lends itself to a longdurational stay. Visits to qualityfull 20th-century and presentday architectureprojects switch effortloosely together.