Pedro Moctezuma Díaz Infante designed the tower for Pemex, the state petroleum company, and Robledo Construcciones e Instalaciones was the developer. Construction ran from 1979 to 1984. The article gives the style as International.
It has 51 floors and is 693 feet (211.3 m) tall in the infobox, or 211 meters in the text. Floor area is about 1.78 million square feet (165,000 m²), and it has 27 lifts. The foundation uses 164 concrete and steel piles driven to 35 meters, and the X-braced frame has 90 shock absorbers.
An explosion in 2013 killed 37 people and injured about 126. About 7,000 Pemex employees work in the office tower. The article says the surrounding plaza was never completed.
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