Zaha Hadid Architects has unveiled renderings for a striking mega-development in Yucatán, Mexico.

Images for the Alai development feature a collection of sculptural towers decorated with ancient Mayan architecture-inspired motifs. The project comes on the heels of surging population increases for the region, which has doubled in its number of inhabitants in recent years. It features intensive landscape remediation strategies aimed at restoring native habitats surrounding the forthcoming complex. Those naturally landscaped areas will be crisscrossed by a series of wooden paths, paseos, and walking trails designed to minimize adverse impacts on the habitat.

The towers themselves feature sinuous latticework along their balcony-studded facades. The development is the latest Mexico-based project for ZHA and builds on a growing trend of global architecture firms pursuing massive projects in the country. New York City-based SHoP, for example, is currently at work on a large, multi-tower project in Tijuana, Mexico called Bajalta.

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For more information on Alai, see the ZHA website.