The Plaza Carso building of the Museo Soumaya in Nuevo Polanco was designed by Fernando Romero's practice, FR-EE, for Carlos Slim, whose son-in-law Romero is. The text credits engineering with Ove Arup and Frank Gehry. It was inaugurated on February 28, 2011 and opened to the public on March 28, 2011. The infobox gives no construction dates.
The asymmetric form is clad in about 16,000 hexagonal aluminum tiles over a steel exoskeleton of 28 curved columns and seven encircling beams. Marble floors are imported from Greece. The building is 151 feet (46 m) high with about 170,000 square feet (16,000 m²) of floor area. Each floor has a distinct shape, the top floor is skylit, and a 350-seat auditorium is included.
The building cost $70 million, while the whole Plaza Carso development cost almost $800 million. The text calls it six stories, though the level list has an entrance plus levels 1 to 6. Admission is free.
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