It doesn't have columns in the normal sense." "This airport is the first of its kind in the world," Foster said. The new six-runway project will be built next to the Benito Juarez International Airport on the eastern flank of Mexico City, where the government already owns land. The airport proposed by Pena Nieto’s administration will be built on federal land.Mexico's government on Wednesday unveiled the winning design for a new, futuristic, spider-shaped airport for the capital that will ease delays and boost capacity at a cost of 120 billion pesos ($9.17 billion) in public and private funding.īritish architect Norman Foster and Fernando Romero, a son-in-law of Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim, showcased their winning, airy design in the form of an X with arching spans at the presidential palace. But after violent clashes with the farmers from the town of San Salvador Atenco the government dropped the airport plan. In 2002, the government tried to expropriate the land from a group of farmers on the outskirts of Mexico City to build a new airport. The entrance to the terminal will have a garden of cacti and other elements to symbolize the snake and the eagle’s wings. Romero, who designed Carlos Slim’s Soumaya museum and is the billionaire’s son-in-law, said the airport will honor the Mexican flag’s coat of arms, which has an eagle on top of a cactus that is devouring a snake and is a reference to Tenochtitlan, the pre-Columbian city where the capital is built on. Mexican officials said they hope the new airport becomes the main air hub in Latin America.įoster, who has received some of the world’s top architecture awards, including the Pritzker, said the airport will have spacious halls that can be used for art exhibitions. It will be “a modern, on the vanguard (project) that will have a great dose of Mexican symbolism and that without a doubt will be a reference around the world and a great door” into Mexico, Ruiz said. The airy, lightweight, membrane-roofed terminal is designed in the form of a giant “X.”
Ruiz denied that and said impact studies have already been conducted and that there are plans to set up areas where rain water can be harvested to avoid floods. “The new airport will be a grand work, a symbol of modern Mexico,” Pena Nieto said.Ĭritics of the massive project say the land where it would be built is not suitable for a new airport.įormer Environment Secretary Jose Luege told Radio Formula that that part of Mexico City is prone to flooding.
President Enrique Pena Nieto said three runaways are expected to be up and running by 2020 and handle 52 million passengers per year.
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