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Trees, Birds, Ponds: Mexico City's Ancient Lake Reclaims Scrapped Airport

Reuters

   TEXCOCO, MEXICO - Bright green stalks of weeds are sprouting from the
   ground where planes were supposed to take off at a new Mexico City
   airport as officials let nature take over in their bid to transform the
   marshy swath of an ancient lake into a giant park.

   The ghostly skeletons of a partly built control tower and flight
   terminal are recognizably in the style of Norman Foster, the British
   architect commissioned by Mexico's last president to build a futuristic
   international airport at a cost of $13 billion on 4,800 hectares just
   east of the capital.

   Upon taking office in December 2018, President Andres Manuel Lopez
   Obrador axed the project, citing the results of an informal referendum,
   after arguing it would be costly to prevent sinking on the waterlogged
   soil.

   Instead of the slick design from Foster, whose award-winning glass and
   steel weblike buildings dot the globe, Lopez Obrador opted to expand an
   existing military airport.

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