President Pena Nieto, and British architect Norman Foster looking at the mockup of the future airport of Mexico City. "Once we have an adequate base, we will in the longer term issue up to 30-year bonds," he added. "The strategy includes short and medium-term financing." "The airport infrastructure cost is around $10 billion, and we are going to raise $6 billion in financial markets," Patino said. Mexico’s government will finance the first stage of the new airport and aims to issue up to 30-year bonds to finance later stages, according to a senior project official.įederico Patino, financial director of the project, told reporters it would initially be financed from operating cash flow generated by Mexico City’s current airport, which totals around $634 million a year. The new airport will also be the first one outside Europe to include "neutral carbon footprint," a system to generate renewable energy and remove the carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
He cited challenges that include frequent earthquakes and the fact that the capital lies on a lake bed. It doesn’t have columns in the normal sense." "It doesn’t have a conventional roof, it doesn’t have vertical walls. "This airport is the first of its kind in the world," Foster said. The design for the new facility revolutionizes the way that airports are conceived – the entire terminal is enclosed within a continuous lightweight gridshell, embracing walls and roof in a single, flowing form, evocative of flight. 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. Mexico City, Mexico - Mexico’s government recently 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 $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.
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