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Project • By PNLO • Cultural Centres
Avid Bluprint Philippine National Pavilion Competition
The sights, the sounds, the feeling.
What we aim to show is a modern interpretation of our treasured attractions that invoke different feelings-- of pride, adventure and progression. By treasured attractions we do not only mean traditional aspects, like natural formations and man-made structures. In the bigger schema of things, it is our people that make this place unrivaled. Hence, we would like to showcase the Filipino psyche - fun loving, talented and with great capacity to withstand hardships and improvise.
The design concept is based on the whale shark, a magnificent creature locally called “Butanding”.
The use of the creature’s aesthetic qualities of size, color and texture connotes the Filipinos’ larger than life persona... More