The Torres de Satélite, or Satellite Towers, stand in Ciudad Satélite in Naucalpan, State of Mexico. Luis Barragán and the sculptor Mathias Goeritz created them, with the painter Jesús Reyes Ferreira contributing ideas. Groundbreaking was in 1957 and they were inaugurated in early March 1958. They were restored in 2008. The article names no client and no style, calling them an early large-scale urban sculpture.
The plan called for seven towers, the tallest 200 meters. Budget cuts reduced it to five, the tallest 52 meters (171 feet) and the shortest 30 meters (98 feet). Goeritz first wanted orange, but the final scheme used red, blue and yellow, plus two white towers.
The towers became the symbol of the new Ciudad Satélite. They appear in Alejandro Jodorowsky's film The Holy Mountain from 1973.
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