The 2nd place winning entry for the Santa Maria del Mar Basilica in Malecon Tajamar, Cancun, Mexico went to Mexico and Spain-based firm sanzpont [arquitectura]. Cancun is a city of sun, beach and tourism so the architectural project though of religious character had to fully respond to these 3 key elements and their correspondent transcendence, which when combined with the religious concept generated a sacred space able to provide purity, protection and serenity which could only be achieved by a standard of top aesthetic beauty, symmetry and proportion.