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Hotel Continental Hilton

Av.Paseo de la Reforma e Insurgentes, Col. Juárez, Cuauhtémoc
Mexico Mexico

Status:
destroyed
Construction Dates
  Began1946
  Finished1955
  Destroyed1986
Floor Count16
Basement Floors1
Units / Rooms395
Building Uses
 - hotel
Structural Types
 - highrise

 Heights ValueSource / Comments 
Roof197 ftUnconfirmed
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Description
Architects: Fernando Parra Hernández
Developer: Miguel Alemán Valdés / Enrique Parra Hernández

Concrete structure covered with a glass curtain facade and a composite art wall made with venezian mosaics.
The building was damaged by the earthquakes of july of 1957 and september of 1985, repaired on 1960 but demolished on february of 1986 with explosives.


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