The mixed-use tower at Ferrocarril de Cuernavaca 780 in Mexico City runs deep but not wide.
Credit: César Béjar/Rory Gardiner/Sarah Schumacher for Bloomberg
This Skinny Mexico City Tower Is Just 14 Feet Wide on One Side
The mixed-use building Ferrocarril de Cuernavaca 780, designed by the architecture firm HEMAA, rises on a sliver of a parcel between a street and a rail line.
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A tiny sliver of land between a one-way street and a railroad track isn’t the most obvious place for an office tower. But the super-skinny parcel was only one of the constraints for Ferrocarril de Cuernavaca 780, a new mixed-use project in Mexico City.