Back to the Future: A Retro take on Modern Architecture

Bonifacio Global City Series: North-Central Part

The Fort. It was a dream, or at least it started with one. A modern city that would represent a part of the future for this country. There are still challenges of course, but see, you won’t find an ounce of tradition here. It’s all progress, passion, art, business and money. This city reeks of so.much.money.

I lived for 2 years in the North Triangle area, that was 2014–2016. Back then there were more green spaces than buildings and I got to enjoy seeing towers at their glory without any backdrop of another building out shadowing it. Then I moved to another city 3 years ago, I missed the rapid development of Fort Bonifacio. Just last Sunday I went for a walk with my camera, not surprisingly, there are more buildings now, more people, more cars, more restaurants, heavier traffic, and practically more everything except space.

Anyway, I won’t bore you with so much rhetoric. The shots here are just some of the buildings that I think creates a feeling of excitement either for working and living our lives in it. Meantime, the retro filter is an artistic hunch. Take it or leave it.

Enjoy!

Ore Central Building, 31st St. corner 9th Ave., Bonifacio Global City

The Clipp Center, 11th Ave cr 39th St, Fort Bonifacio

Uptown Parksuites, 8th Avenue, Bonifacio Global City, Taguig,

CITI Plaza, 34th St, Bonifacio Global City, Taguig

W City Center, 7th Avenue, Bonifacio Global City

…and lastly

This is my favorite building in all the Fort, the Grand Hyatt Hotel. Designed by the architects from Wong + Ouyang firm and proofed by the engineers from Ove Arup + Partners. The building reminds me of Howard Roark and his unyielding commitment to a kind of art that redefines things, opinions, and civilizations.

The filter was inspired by Batman (movies). The Wayne Tower was similarly designed as well.

Grand Hyatt, 8th Avenue corner 35th Street, Bonifacio Global City

“Men have been taught that the highest virtue is not to achieve, but to give. Yet one cannot give that which has not been created. Creation comes before distribution — or there will be nothing to distribute. The need of the creator comes before the need of any possible beneficiary. Yet we are taught to admire the second-hander who dispenses gifts he has not produced above the man who made the gifts possible. We praise an act of charity. We shrug at an act of achievement.”

-Howard Roark, The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

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