25.7.07

nOMAmeswey


no mames wey. (slang). mexican for “you’ve got to be f*cking kidding me”

“in 1810, mexico gained its independence from spain. 100 years later the mexican revolution began mexico’s political modernity. a century later mexico and its capital stand at the brink of another quantum leap: a nation at home in a globalized world, in which economic prosperity and a new cultural flourishing promise to transform the nation and its capital”

oma’s torre bicentenario 2010 (bicentennial tower) to become “the tallest skyscraper in the third world.”

mexico…celebrating 200 years of independence and 130 years of colonialist capitalism

found@noticiasdearquitectura

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