The Hotel de México was to have been the largest hotel in the Americas, a huge project started by the entrepreneur Manuel Suárez y Suárez in 1966 in Mexico City, Mexico.
The project ran out of control and was never completed.
After Suárez died in 1987 it stood unfinished for several years before being converted into an office building named the World Trade Center.
Suárez (right) with López Mateos
World Trade Center in 2013
The Polyforum. A statue of Siqueros and Suárez stands in front.
Manuel Suárez y Suárez was a Spanish immigrant to Mexico who became a successful entrepreneur and patron of the arts.
He is known for the Casino de la Selva in Cuernavaca, the Hotel de México, and the adjacent Polyforum Cultural Siqueiros.
Detail of a sculpture of David Alfaro Siqueiros and Suárez outside the Poliforum Siqueiros, Mexico City
Fragment of the mural "La Hispanidad" by Josep Renau, salvaged from the Casino de la Selva
Dining room in front of the auditorium at Casino de la Selva
World Trade Center, Mexico