Torres de Satelite

The Torres de Satelite are positioned in Ciudad Satelite, within the northern part of Mexico City. One of the country. first city sculptures of superb dimensions, had its making plans commenced in 1957 with the thoughts of famend Mexican architect Luis Barragan, painter Jesus Reyes Ferreira and sculptor Mathias Goeritz. The project changed into at first planned to be composed of 7 towers, with the tallest one achieving a top of two hundred meters, but a price range discount compelled the layout to be composed of most effective 5 towers, with the tallest measuring fifty two meters and the shortest 30 meters. Goeritz in the beginning wanted the towers to be painted in special sunglasses of orange, but modified his mind later because of a few stress from constructors and investors.

It was sooner or later decided the towers might be painted in pink, blue and yellow, the number one subtractive colorations, with the addition of white. Thus, inside the first days of March 1958, the Satelite Towers have been inaugurated because the image of the newborn and contemporary Ciudad Satelite.