

“The best public business we’ve done has been not to build the Texcoco airport, estimated at 300 billion pesos,” Obrador claimed, at a recent press conference, about his decision to cancel the US$15 billion project. The first phase was expected to open in 2020 that would feature three runways and include a terminal to accommodate 68 million passengers per year. Work commenced on the New Mexico City International airport project at the site of an ancient lakebed in Texcoco, with 30% completed before it was abandoned. What happened to the New Mexico City airport project?

Their design proposal, serving six runways, for a lightweight gridshell structure that forms the walls and roof of a 555,000m2 terminal. Foster, a key figure in British modernist architecture, and Mexican businessman Romero designed the airport in response to a competition and were selected as winners in 2014.
