page_title: Hotel de México
section_title: Polyforum
hierarchical_section_title: Hotel de México / Polyforum
caption_attribution_description: English: View of the Polyforum Cultural Siqueiros in Mexico City
context_page_description: 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.
context_section_description: Suarez first approached Siqueros in 1960, and in 1965 commissioned him to paint a mural for his Hotel de la Selva in Cuernavaca. 
  In 1966 the mural plan was expanded and transferred to the Hotel de Mexico, where the mural would become a tourist attraction pulling customers to the hotel.
  President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz may have suggested the change to make the mural as accessible to tourists as possible.
  The architects Rossell and Ramón Miquela Jáuregui worked with Siqueros to design a diamond-shaped building that would present a huge surface for his mural.
  Inside there were areas to stage plays, dance performances, concerts and art exhibitions.
  The Polyforum was started early in the 1970s and completed before Siqueiros died in 1974.
  The building's exterior is a dodecahedron, while the interior is an octagon.
  It was built by the architects Guillermo Rossell de la Lama, Ramón Miquela Jáuregui and Joaquín Álvarez Ordonéz.
  The Polyforum mural of the "March of Humanity" by Siqueros acknowledges the potential of technological progress but is critical of the failure of the Mexican Revolution to achieve freedom and social justice.
caption: The Polyforum. A statue of Siqueros and Suárez stands in front.
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