Mario Pani Darqui (March 29, 1911 – February 23, 1993) was a Mexican architect and urbanist . He was one of the most active urbanists under the Mexican Miracle , and gave form to a good part of the urban appearance of Mexico City , with emblematic buildings (nowadays characteristic of Mexico City), such as the main campus of the UNAM , the Unidad Habitacional Nonoalco-Tlatelolco (following Le Corbusier 's urban principles), the Normal School of Teachers (Mexico), the National Conservatory of Music and other big housing projects called multifamiliares . His son Knut is a well-known artist.
7-755: Torre Insignia (also called Torre Banobras and the Nonoalco Tlatelolco Tower ) is a building designed by Mario Pani Darqui located on the corner of Avenida Ricardo Flores Magón and Avenida de los Insurgentes Norte , in the Tlatelolco housing complex in Cuauhtémoc in Mexico City . At its completion in 1962, the tower became the second tallest building in Mexico after the Torre Latinoamericana . The tower
14-466: A challenge for this area as it is in a seismic zone , which was the fourth building in Mexico City and in the world with Torre Anahuac, Edificio El Moro, and Torre Latinoamericana in counting the latest technology in terms of earthquake shocks, thereby starting four of the great buildings of Mexico City. It was headquarters of the government bank Banobras until the 1985 Mexico City earthquake , when it
21-549: Is not currently in use and is being renovated. It is the tallest building in the Tlatelolco area and the third highest in the Avenida Insurgentes. The building housed the headquarters of Banobras . The building has a triangular prism shape and was built with a reinforced concrete frame. It has been remodeled at least twice and houses one of the tallest carillon in the world, with 47 bells made by Petit & Fritsen . After
28-585: The Lycée Janson-de-Sailly secondary school in Paris for four years. Pani continued his education at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris for six years. In 1938, he began the journal Arquitectura Mexico, which was published until 1979. He introduced the International Style in Mexico, and was the first promoter of big housing Tower block projects. Pani was a great innovator of
35-424: The excessive growth of Mexico City and especially the central Tlatelolco area, there was the need to start building vertically, which meant constructing housing office and apartment buildings with a height of over 20 floors. With the space requirement and due to rising incomes in the city, the buildings were thought to be in a strategic area, and with this in 1959 construction began with completion by 1962. It remains
42-542: The urban design of Mexico City, and was involved in the construction of some of its newer parts, developing or participating in the more ambitious and important city-developing plans of the 20th century in Mexico, like Ciudad Satélite (along with Domingo Garcia Ramos and Jose Luis Cuevas ), Tlatelolco, the Juárez and Miguel Alemán tower blocks, and the condominium in Paseo de la Reforma , the first of its type in Mexico. He would found
49-651: Was abandoned. It has stood empty since then. In 2007 it was sold to Cushman & Wakefield . Mario Pani Mario Pani Darqui was born on March 29, 1911, in Mexico City, and moved to Europe in early childhood. His parents were Dolores Darqui and Arturo Pani–Arteaga. Pani attended the Marist College, a Marist Brothers Catholic school in Genoa, Italy for three years (now Istituto Champagnat, Genoa ); followed study at San Carlo College (Collegio San Carlo) in Milan, Italy; and
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