http://www.cyburbia.org/gallery/data/500/1605ayalapano.JPG?4765

http://www.cyburbia.org/gallery/data/500/1605buendiapano.JPG?493

http://www.daaaaa.com/kkk/kkk374.jpg http://www.daaaaa.com/kkk/kkk266.jpg

http://www.cyburbia.org/gallery/data/500/1605Makati_view.JPG?6841

http://www.cyburbia.org/gallery/data/500/1605ayalaave.JPG?6709

thanks to boybaha, greyx and yomiuri_giants for finding and taking those photos

Thanks for the pics..the 3rd, 4th and 5th ones are superb:okay:
The skyline kicks ass big time!

That building in the last pic looks like Gas Co. Tower in LA too.

nice collection. i think it's the right time to have such thread.

http://www.daaaaa.com/kkk/kkk374.jpg
i like this view;)

Tight...Is the definition for this city!

Excellent pics .... but where the f**k is Makati ?!?!?!?

Originally posted by samminn

Excellent pics .... but where the f**k is Makati ?!?!?!?

Philippines. neighboring city of Manila, the capital

Awesome! Lotsa green too!

that was funny

nice view of Makati.
still there are many green area for the city to expand in the future. Makati is not as dense as i thought though.

if you look at makati from the north or north-west... it would look denser and there are less green. the south and south-east (the pictures on this thread) are usually golf clubs, ultra-expensive subdivisions and of course, fort bonifacio which has yet to be developed.

i cannot see the pics.... well, let me attach this photo i found on the web

http://www.thorsten-besse.de/photography/manila/october/makati/images/Makati%20City.jpg

http://homepage.uibk.ac.at/homepage/csaa/csaa2824/makati.jpg

http://www.touristcenter.com.ph/information/images/makati.jpg

some more :)

http://www.dannysantos1.com/Misc_Pix1A/images/Makati7.jpg

http://www.dannysantos1.com/Misc_Pix1A/images/Makati6.jpg

http://www.dannysantos1.com/Misc_Pix1A/images/Makati5.jpg

http://www.dannysantos1.com/Misc_Pix1A/images/Makati2.jpg

http://www.dannysantos1.com/Misc_Pix1A/images/Makati1.jpg

makati subdivisions....w/ makati skyline on the background

http://www.makati.gov.ph/contents/images/makati1.jpg

Nice pics.

yea they are nice ones. keep posting new ones.

http://www.geocities.com/mikerasalan/MTmakatisunset.txt

Not so new... But it's a rare view.

note: there really isn't a giant mango in Makati.

lol! I thought I'm experiencing hallucination for the first time when I saw that Mango.:D @boybaha, I guess you don't like that bldg that's why you edited it. But of all the things...why Mango? (because it's the Phils. National Fruit?:? haha).

Anyway, pretty cool pictures! Keep on posting, especially the night pictures.

I've never seen this thread before. Great pics! Especially from Renell and Luis...

Makati looks awesome with all the green, open space and the Skyway (?) running down the front. And it looks amazingly dense in Luis' photos... Sweeeeeet!!

saw that one before. boybaha's good at such things. that was cool dude.

Even though i've seen these pics, they are still as awesome as i first saw them...:cool:

hmm.. so what's the function of this thread? compared to the normal Makati thread. i don't want this to rot.

i think this will be the normal makati thread. since i do not see any normal makati thread, or any other makati thread here.

@ Boybaha...thanks mike for helping figure it out...now let's try this one...

http://www.geocities.com/franciss_19/74100001EDITED.txt

Do you want me to change the name of this thread? "Makati City...atin ito!!" hahaha..

Here's that amazing aerial from the other thread. Credit to Adrian Falconer from airliners.net for this picture:)

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/photopost/data/500/93mmaerial.jpg

OMG!!! THAT AERIAL IS JUST F*CKING GORGEOUS!!! You can see how well planned the Makati CBD is and the pattern of the residetial areas is so naturally organic! Its hard to believe Makati City progressed so much! Too bad Ortigas and Fort Boni wasn't included in the pic. But awesome pic indeed! :okay:

Yup it is amazing...:cool:

Nice pic, Francis. Detailed and massive. I like the lighting. but its pretty big, hehe

its quite amazing, u can see naia the two runways and the 3 terminals and makati look awesome from the top

so, how about that name change?? what will it be? "Makati City...atin ito!" hehehe...

how many Makati threads to we have so far?

anyways, you can also see there the vast emptiness of the future Bay City space

Nice photos, luis4083!

Does the "crown" on the building on the far right light up at night? (http://www.dannysantos1.com/Misc_Pix1A/images/Makati7.jpg)

afternoon photo taken last December i guess...atop the Magallanes MRT walkway.
http://www.geocities.com/franciss_19/makatisky02.txt
http://www.geocities.com/franciss_19/makatisky01.txt

Originally posted by renell

how many Makati threads to we have so far?

anyways, you can also see there the vast emptiness of the future Bay City space

what's Bay City supposed to be? Is it the big, empty area of brown grass near the bottom left corner?

OT: and where's the Mall of Asia supposed to be put up...? can the location be seen from aerial?

yep.


that's an interesting photo francis. what are those buildings in front of GT? there's a glassed building i haven't seen before, and an u/c too..

there are actually two u/c's on that photo Renell... they were just superimposed. the taller one is One Legazpi (with the visible crane), and the other one (lower) beside that green tower (which i suppose is Somerset) is Greenbelt Radissons, which is now on the finishing stage of construction. i think u missed that on ur u/c list renell. this is just a large version of photos that has been posted before.

what a great aerial shot!

any updates on bay city? it's a huge empty lot for great development!

Originally posted by Edmundtanso

what a great aerial shot!

any updates on bay city? it's a huge empty lot for great development!


yeah.. true... but lets wait.. maybe it will boom soon.. :colgate:

Originally posted by Francis20

there are actually two u/c's on that photo Renell... they were just superimposed. the taller one is One Legazpi (with the visible crane), and the other one (lower) beside that green tower (which i suppose is Somerset) is Greenbelt Radissons, which is now on the finishing stage of construction. i think u missed that on ur u/c list renell. this is just a large version of photos that has been posted before.

i actually see only 1 u/c....:?

Renell, the two overlapped in the photo...the one in front is lower than that one 'behind' it.

oh right. :D

i'm imagining Shang Tower and all the other u/c's in that view.

anyone wanna do a rendering of Makati's future skyline?

Yeah that would be cool...i'm not good at photoshop so i cant, who would be able to do that? Its a cool idea.

Here's an old old, Makati postcard.
any idea where it was taken from?
http://planethuddleston.com/postcards/phil_makati.jpg

i'd say that was taken from Rufino Pacific, pre-2000. i see Cityland Herrera there, which is beside PBcom, which i don't see...

Found on the net.
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid109/p8d667a8cf12621420b6f63ebef050c9c/f930496c.jpg

P.S. We should change the name of this thread to "The Makati Thread" or something.

ryan said makati thread was too dull.. he wanted something more creative, but both of us lack the creative minds, haha

hahaha, yeah...any ideas for a new, more creative name?

Nice picture, boyflood. How did they make it greenish?:D

how about makati backwards?haha...

i think thatwas converted to grayscale...or greenscale...:S

http://www.geocities.com/mikerasalan/philippines03/buendiapano.txt
Again, taken from a certain famous box with the help of a certain famous Francis.

The skyline looks so 3D from that view. With dense cluster on the left, ORT right in the middle, and BGC and Ortigas in the distance.

there goes that pano again. of course im not famous. only Citibank is famous. prestigious address probably? maybe that's the reason why all floors are occupied. good amenities, good food (there's an economy, class A and business class restos). hehe..nway, off-topic.

hey guys, i took 150+ pics in Makati this morning. i was clicking everywhere inside the car:D with my friendly tour guide taking me around the CBD. that was all in an hour. and that's just in day two. soon we'll be creating more discussion in this thread:)

Sweet...150 pics is more than i took last summer!! I'm looking forward to them. Dont forget to take pics of the u/c's too! And take pics of that E-services thingy in Ayala Gateway.

well i took 150 pics in an hour this morning:D

btw, Gateway isnt all occupied by eservices..

Just part of it?? I hope so coz then we could still see BPI rise on the gateway site! Take pics of Gateway to end the confusion!:D

hahaha...im hoping it wud only just be the podium. but i dun think e-services was on the original plan. maybe they're replacing the plan of building a retail services bldg with this one.

Maybe...I hope there is still the proposal to build the BPI HQ... There should be enough room. We need pics to clarify.

Its time for more pics...Some of these have been posted before the hack.

http://www.horon.com/images/solutions/makati.jpg
http://www.btinternet.com/~philpages/pics/lem-photos/makati.jpg
http://www3.ocn.ne.jp/~cig/realestate/img/makati.jpg
http://www.arrakeen.ch/philmar02/802%20%20view%20to%20Makati.JPG
http://blogged.the-protagonist.net/images/makati_greenbelt_arcade.jpg
http://ph.fujitsu.com/img/profile/fpi/Makati_Skyline.jpg

http://www.worldtrip.de/Asien/Philippinen/Manila2/makati5t.jpg
http://www.dinsworld.com/Photos/008coolpix/400-050203-006.jpg


OMG!
http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/images/news/newspics/07-27-2003/coupdetat75.jpg
http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/images/news/newspics/07-27-2003/coupdetat47.jpg

Rich vs. Poor
http://rsi.com.pl/~jrojecki/filipiny/f23.jpg

Nice shot of Export Import Bank in here:
http://www.trekearth.com/gallery/Asia/Philippines/photo5295.htm

Other nice pics in here:
http://www.trekearth.com/gallery/Asia/Philippines/NCR/Manila/Makati_City/

hm.i just checked all my pics. they number 270, majority from Makati, but only about 50 are 'good' in my perpective :(


great little pics btw

Yeah, thats normal... Less than 50% of shots taken will be "good"

Yeah, thats normal... Less than 50% of shots taken will be "good"

well most of them are really either reflecting my hand or the camera, a tree is blocking, it's too dark, or the pollution shows and it looks like it's cloudy.. so you think it was raining, when it wasnt. like here
http://rsi.com.pl/~jrojecki/filipiny/f23.jpg

That's a pretty well done picture!

My one tip is that (and Ryan has shown us that taking in-car pictures yields beautiful pictures) to get a higher success rate for photographs, you actually should stand on the street and compose a shot. This takes away the risk of having a reflecting flash, or a window reflection, or even motion blurring (though as weirdo has shown us, motion blurring can be a useful tool). Just be careful and make sure there are no camera snatchers around.

you took that one? beautiful.

renell! thats a great shot. you showed the contrast of the poor and rich. it's so depressing to see the poverty :(

That picture is disgusting.The government should work hard to fight poverty.I know, it depicts reality but it is rather sad than beautiful.Hopefully, in upcoming year,poverty will be reduced.

u took that one Renell? maybe last year? Manansala is nowhere to be found in it. if ur using an automatic digicam...i think it's better to take pics when there are less light, say early in the morning or right before sunset. but if u cud set ur cam so it would have faster shutter speeds, thens thats good,u cud take pics anytime.

Want to share some photos taken from my june 2000 trip to the philippines, some are good and bad :)

GT Tower - Exterior
http://edmundtanso.smugmug.com/photos/3301729-M.jpg

http://edmundtanso.smugmug.com/photos/3302092-M.jpg

GT Tower - Interior Light Fixture
http://edmundtanso.smugmug.com/photos/3302035-M.jpg

GT Tower - Interior Escelator (blurry)
http://edmundtanso.smugmug.com/photos/3302037-M.jpg

RCBC - Exterior
http://edmundtanso.smugmug.com/photos/3302057-M.jpg

http://edmundtanso.smugmug.com/photos/3302061-M.jpg

http://edmundtanso.smugmug.com/photos/3302039-M.jpg

RCBC - Interior
http://edmundtanso.smugmug.com/photos/3302081-M.jpg

http://edmundtanso.smugmug.com/photos/3302069-M.jpg

SWEET!!!:eek2: Awesome pics, man. You went inside GT? How? It looks nice inside. How did you go inside RCBC and GT? You have a friend working there or something? You should have taken skyline shots from the upper levels of both buildings....

btw guys, renell did not take that rich vs. poor shot. If found it on the internet.

Those are great pics Edmund! I love how the exterior design of GT Tower is mirrored in the interior, down to the light fixtures!

RCBC. Taken in 2003.
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid77/pf3c5f5e3820c455f4d316f8d9880d90d/fb3011da.jpg

nice photos Edmund. my faves would be the the 6th, last and 2nd to the last pics. how did u get that 2nd to the last pic? (RCBC interior?) i can't think of any location that would give u that view.

Mike, dun let us waiting and wanting for more...pls post all u got man...hehehe...:D

nice angle of RCBC...you dont see it from that angle a lot.

great pics, very artistic. i wish mine is as good as those.

btw, i took a lot of different angles of RCBC. so watch out



-- to powerline haters--

there IS indeed overhead powerlines in the Makati CBD. i saw some hanging about in HV Dela Costa i think.. but there are still some.

yeah there are overhead powerlines in Salcedo Village. Some in Legaspi village as well. But there are none in Ayala Ave, Buendia, Makati Ave and Paseo de Roxas.

thanks guys! :)

i was able to get in to GT tower because a friend's dad work on one of the office there. i have to hide the camera because they wont let anyone take pictures. i just cought couple of times :)

with RCBC palaza, a friend did a restaurant there so i was able to get in and take photos. would try to go there again and take better pictures.

good job everyone!
now we are waiting for Renell's tons of MM pics...and hey Renell, the skies are clear today...the best time to take skyscraper photos. maybe bec its holiday and there are few cars along the roads.

Its a holiday over there? The whole holy week is holiday? nice...

Thats pretty cool, Edmund. Yes, if you can, go back to GT and take more pics of not only the interior but also the skyline from GT:) Try not to get caught this time;)

Amazingly modern.The very first interior pics of GT I ever saw.I think one of u guys posted interior pics of RCBC once,didn't you?

Amazingly modern.The very first interior pics of GT I ever saw.I think one of u guys posted interior pics of RCBC once,didn't you?

Its a holiday over there? The whole holy week is holiday? nice...

Thats pretty cool, Edmund. Yes, if you can, go back to GT and take more pics of not only the interior but also the skyline from GT:) Try not to get caught this time;)

yes right!!! very right..u should really do that.
plus if u go to RCBC again, make the most out of it. go to tower 1 or 2, then sneak thru the higher floors which aren't occupied yet. im guessing the 40/41st floors of Tower 2 arent done yet, so go up, then on a haste, take photos of metro manila on a 360 deg view. and also take photos of the very top of GT Tower. but note, do this within few minutes. 5 minutes will do. hehehe...thats too much tho.

Hahaha...but dont go into the extremes. If you get caught, ur in deep shit...:D

today i was out-of-town, so no MM pics today here.

last tuesday i was in rockwell and i took a pic in front of this security personnel, and a couple of meters away from some SWAT crew.. haha.. :D

im hoping for more good weather. i have a lot of cloudy shots:(

yes you guys bet i will try to get to some high-rise buildings and take photos, i'll try to make it quick so i won't get cought =)

just some info:
LKG - went to do a site visit when it was under construction years ago and the contractor told us that each curtain wall costs like Pph 500,000 or something and showed us how strong the glass was, he let us step on the glass, it was amazing!

Tower 1 - went here also when it was built already. very nice interior. the lobby have an imported wood (cherry i think) which requires air-conditioning 24-hr a day, amazing. the top 5 or so floors have an atruim in the middle and there's a walkway around the atruim of every floor, really cool. there's a board room on top floor with a deck that have a panoramic view of makati! just awesome.

these aren't so good, but they are new. taken just few minutes ago.

ROCKWELL...was taken from loc where Manansala isn't visible.
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid110/p06349b511031f8c1782f78dc4bbaf23c/f915285c.jpg

Fort Boni, notice Penhurst between BOni Ridge and Kensington nearby.
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid110/pdb965e131167440c07bd94af78395793/f9152873.jpg

Salcedo Village again....
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid110/pbaa3fd6df3d640c5a66c94d9ca5ece98/f915284f.jpg

nice pics francis they look like digicam quality.

Les photos ci-dessus sont prises par camera digitale. A propos je m'appelle Leah, une collegue de Francis. On s'ennuie ici au bureau alors il m'a demande de vous ecrire en francais. Il ne comprend pas un mot francais. Je peux dire n'importe quoi et il ne peut pas le comprendre. He he :)

what are you saying there francis? =)

Les photos ci-dessus sont prises par camera digitale. A propos je m'appelle Leah, une collegue de Francis. On s'ennuie ici au bureau alors il m'a demande de vous ecrire en francais. Il ne comprend pas un mot francais. Je peux dire n'importe quoi et il ne peut pas le comprendre. He he :)


Alors, let me try to translate. Il y a 5 ans que je ne parle francais.

The photos here were taken with a digital camera. And my name is Leah, a coworker of Francis. He was bored in the office here and so he asked me to write in French. He doesn't understand a word of French. I can tell that it's not important to him and that he cannot understand. He he. :)

=) cool! thanks boybaha

hahah...francis starting to post in french.:D

Sorry but i cant see Kensington and Penhurst in the BGC pic:(

Alors, let me try to translate. Il y a 5 ans que je ne parle francais.

The photos here were taken with a digital camera. And my name is Leah, a coworker of Francis. He was bored in the office here and so he asked me to write in French. He doesn't understand a word of French. I can tell that it's not important to him and that he cannot understand. He he. :)


haha...good job. i asked Leah...u did it right except the last sentence.
She said "i can write anything in French and he wouldn't understand"...something like that. i dunno.

GreyX, Kensington is quite obscure. Penhurst is behind the middle of the Boni Ridge Twins. Kensington is on the right of Boni ridge. not so visible tho.

tell her to take pics on better days:D hehe

Oh ok...I can see both buildings now.

manila look cool too!

yeah it does...
Renell, i took those photos using my workmates digicam. we had pictorials here during that day (Black Friday as u call it)...and there we are, doing our stuff almost midnight.

francis, what line of work are you in? =)

try to figure it out...u can do it by looking at those comments im posting all my life. :D can u? no cheating! errr...i think my profile tells what my work is?

All i know is that he works for this French firm in the Citibank building.

Swiss(?) company.

Swiss? or Swedish?:D

I dunno. I even got confused of which spelling to use because we had this Swish program of the Macromedia Flash5 back in college.

He's working at SGS~ Societe Generalle de Surveillance. astig!

SGS is Swiss. Based in Geneva. :yes:

SGS is Swiss. Based in Geneva. :yes:

And what do they do? What kind of company is it? hmmm, so Francis works in SGS. What position are you, Francis?

sgs before was doing the customs clearance services for bureau of customs

just a plain Trade Analyst. a superordinary employee. hahaha...so if u are expert on other languages other than English, i might help u get a job here. permanent or not. French, Mandarin, Spanish, Japanese, Italian...and hey, they give high pays to them. and not to me. :D and yes Greg, it's based in Geneva. u know where the HQ is? Skyline, are u in any way connected with Customs? the contract was terminated during Erap's time...and the RP govt owes about Php 6 billion to SGS.


if you wanna kow some more...visit
SGS Website (http://www.sgs.com)

how come that website says that the SGS Philippines headquarters is in 2/F Alegria Bldg., 2229 Chino Roces Avenue, Makati City? When you work in Citibank building?

maybe it hasnt been updated for a long time. that was probably they're old address.


anyways, i'm back in belgium. expect this place to be fill with my pics

here's a preview of what's to come
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid112/p59822de466f38cf157ea2ec8f022be5d/f8fb9459.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid112/pa65fb9c3d85f2ed3bac90258fc88f083/f8fb943c.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid112/p4a851fa13ca70d4f9be36d6e20da9ea4/f8fb9452.jpg

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid112/padb350a4b2831155a2e2ee7d114cecef/f8fb9433.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid112/pc6b59da7a1164967e978481339f917d2/f8fb9461.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid112/p326b185ea2f7e522a0f00ff03ffe61ce/f8fb9472.jpg

more to come soon.

Nice pics, renell! All in rare angles (except for Rockwell). Great job. I love the lighting in your Rockwell pic.

if im not mistaken, that was the pic i took meters away from the SWAT personnel and the Nestle security staff.

hehehe, so that pic is worth it. Why were there SWAT personnel in Rockwell?

hehehe, so that pic is worth it. Why were there SWAT personnel in Rockwell?


security reasons. remember they were guarding office buildings (Nestle and Phinma)

Oh. Thats pretty tight.
Did you go go-karting?:D Its right beside Nestle and Phinma.


Lets see some more of your pics;)

yeah rare CBD angles. those are a nice start Renell. so dun prolong the suspense. and hey, dun forget to save the bests for last, alrighty? i wana see ur signature shots this time. okei? i just wonder what would it be.

...don't know who took these pics...but I saved some of them... so thank you and I credit all of this pics too all of you... hope they bring back memories :cheers:

Not sure about this one...if it has been posted b4 here in skyscrapercity.com...the bad thing is...i tried posting it as original picture...but it takes a while to load..or does not load at all... it would have been a great shot.
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid112/p481c001fa0145a984165ab2f1c4dbd23/f8f8c39f.jpg


http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid112/p6ac83629e436220013ff1a336e3eafd4/f8f8c3a3.jpg

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid112/pd0070c95ce5ff0fc759266b64bdec045/f8f8c3ab.jpg

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid112/p646861bc5fe4a1e1ebde21fa3e05024f/f8f8c3b0.jpg

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid112/p35a7d43f0c969a71a5f97a71da359901/f8f8c390.jpg

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid112/p6a7130406b58860273d9b00d1fad3c96/f8f8c394.jpg

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid112/pcdd0382d969086a8baeac83ca7b97850/f8f8c3c7.jpg

These ones I think is Renell Lope's....thank you...i saved it...enjoy!
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid112/p04b16da7e91ec1b65c675eabb9fe15f9/f8f8c3b1.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid112/pe336622c1f8522e62f78ecd0fc1c0676/f8f8c3b9.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid112/pa517f59da83280f42cb77c8b022898b6/f8f8c3ca.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid112/p74fbe13c5bee51869295887475762858/f8f8c395.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid112/p02bd943b11d6254fd6dfc480d994ecea/f8f8c398.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid112/p7292f45ee484092a015e2148d339ef27/f8f8c3be.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid112/p500a107d724bb89548758cca2b668ba2/f8f8c3d0.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid112/p7c2220d51e9c2ab9dca6e8f9da3369bf/f8f8c3d1.jpg







Okay...since I think these upcoming pics...I believe have not been posted... I will post them now...thanks yahoo and google

i dunno where this is but I am posting it anyway..."SUNOG SA LUNSOD"
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid112/pce29ec076814e1cd221a01e6116fe375/f8f8c39b.jpg

Map of Makati
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid112/p64ed9b575667a4c054a78a343516ddcb/f8f8c38d.jpg

looks like an old pic of an intersection somewhere in metro manila.....(circa late 80's early 90's, there's one of those mitsubishi vans there that makes me think its early 90's) http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid112/p8f21ca58de459ae877fb7089985ecd1c/f8f8c393.jpg

I LOVE THIS PICTURE>>>doesn't it look great!!!
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid112/p59bd980c133085abe812f1de066140c3/f8f8c3af.jpg


..okay this is definitely a view of makati...very far away....even beyond that...you can see ortigas skyline.... i wish this was bigger
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid112/p631a9a0491cab020d6fc3c5c5df962c9/f8f8c3c2.jpg


Okay...not sure about this computer generated image..but they said it was makati..forgot the site....but yeah...it does not look nothing like makati at all!
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid112/p58c9c53d63265101994a5e3ddd50f9ce/f8f8c3ce.jpg

Brunei's Flag, flying with some sort of parol...which i doubt it is..let us just say decoration?
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid112/p095f7feddf28e9c9daa2e997724e530b/f8f8c3cf.jpg

Millenium Plaza Hotel...don't know if that's in makati or not... haven't been there in years
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid112/p1b2b0ef746fa109e7fb10828c131b62e/f8f8c3d2.jpg

Oh my gosh...I love this picture too...i just hoped it was bigger....it shows...most of metro manila...i don't know if it should belong here...but the makati skyline dominates all....includes Laguna Bay (I believe), Manila(which i think is to the far left...please correct me if I am wrong), Makati and Ortigas...not sure bout the buildings imbetween..is it BGC?
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid112/p46aee53ade5bdafd4dd236bdb4fd5a8b/f8f8c3d5.jpg

I know this next pic belongs to BGC thread..but i think its never before seen...well i think atleast..so i am posting it here
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid112/p481d1c62318b9406fcea7070d6c69af6/f8f8c3d7.jpg

Wow! I dont recall seeing that picture before the hack! Too bad imagestation shrunk the pic. Thats a nice picture:okay: I might host some of your pics once photopost is back up and running.

heres the pic above that didnt work:
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid112/p481c001fa0145a984165ab2f1c4dbd23/f8f8c39f.jpg

hmm... enoz try editing your post and removing every .orig.jpg.
:)


haha, some of those are my pics!

those i havent seen this before
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid112/p59bd980c133085abe812f1de066140c3/f8f8c3af.jpg

yeah rare CBD angles. those are a nice start Renell. so dun prolong the suspense. and hey, dun forget to save the bests for last, alrighty? i wana see ur signature shots this time. okei? i just wonder what would it be.


well i have to say those are among the best. lol. i didn't really bother on the order, but i have more good shots to come. though i have to say they look best in high-res

ang ganda ng kuha mo sa pbcom. astig.

you can check my imagestation gallery for more pics. im slowly uploading them one by one.

Hey...Renell...kamusta...yeah... mga pics nang mga tao, the one I am uploading...b4 got hacked... so I will upload them... so thank you to all for the pics....

I think that picture of the old intersection was how Ayala Ave. cor. Makati Ave. used to look like in the 80s. Don't ask me how I know this. I don't. I just have a feeling.

This is a picture of Manila:
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid112/p92bd39c2c69abc4e34853b4b0f666ef9/f8f8c3c0.jpg

This is Robinsons Equitable in Ortigas Center:
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid112/p7610d1280cf1008c5ac75cd2609f91a9/f8f8c3aa.jpg

And yeah the intersection in one of those pics was taken during the 80s or early 90s. The cars look like 80s cars.

i'd say that pic is around 1989-1996. i don't remember Makati having that much cars during the 80's, from what i've heard.

Makati had plenty of cars in the 80s. You were too young (like negative years) to remember. I remember being stuck in massive traffic jams there when we picked my mom up from work after I was fetched from school. And this was mid-80s, in the waning years of Marcos's regime.

I do think that the upper right corner is the corner of Manila Peninsula. I remember its opposite having the traffic light control booth, as pictured in the picture.

P.S. Does anybody remember or have pictures of Manila Peninsula's waterfalls before the installation of the current one? One of my earliest memories of Makati was of the previous incarnatiion of the waterfall. I used to think it was so cool and wanted to take a bath in it.

hmm.. if i'm not mistaken, there's none of those "shortcut things" in Makati ave/Ayala ave interchange anymore. you have Manila pen in one side, Shangrila in another, PLDT in the third, and i think it was Silang, or Lapu-Lapu, in the Ayala triangle side

btw, any fans of my pics, if there are any, can see the rest at http://www.imagestation.com/album/?id=4291110731

hi, im kinda new here... just to share a bit of history. did u know that the present makati cbd was originally intended to be the site of our very 1st intl airport? that's part of the master plan w/c was approved by former pres. quezon during the commonwealth period, but didnt anymore pushed through coz WW2 alrdy broke out. as u noticed the intersection of ayala ave. & ( im not quite sure if paseo de roxas or makati ave) looks like an airport runway right? & the ayala triangle where the Phisix is currently situated is supposedly the original site of the passenger terminal...so yun lang alam ko. the ayalas only entered the picture in the 1950s w/ d development of posh subdivisions like forbes park & dasma, then finally w/ d growth of the new central business district in the 60s. many urban planners were now finding the faults on the cbd, as most of them say the villages nearby is the main cause why the cbd has been halted to its potential expansion, and even caused the class gap bec. of its very exclusive location that isolated the masses. as the main cbd gets more crowded, its been a perfect timing that other potential sites developed like the ortigas in the east, eastwood in the northeast, rockwell & global city in makati, madrigal buss. park & filinvest corporate city in alabang & the asean buss. park in the reclaimed lands accross manila bay. but it myt take decades pa to make them fully developed coz property & construction sector here is currently on its downside. ryt now, rentals in the cbd offices is on its 50% discount vs. the 1996 levels, but vacancy is getting high but still manageable at 25-35%. so the trend now shifts to mix.-meaning combination of residential/office w/ konting retail(like the podium) para profitable pa rin. ayala corporation is stil the most trusted & the strongest property co. until today.

That's right... In fact, the original airport is still in Makati to this day. It's a low building across Makati Ave. from the Manila Peninsula Hotel. It now houses the Filipinas Heritage Library.

Here's some info about the history of the Philippines' first international airport, the Nielsen Airport.

Nielson Airport

The Nielson Airport was built on a 42-hectare piece of land in Makati owned by Ayala y Cia. Originally, the property was part of the vast Hacienda San Pedro de Makati owned by the Spanish-Filipino Ayala family. The hacienda encompassed most of what is now the city of Makati. When Enrique Zobel de Ayala (1877-1943), then a senior managing partner at Ayala y Cia. and a special aide to President Manuel L. Quezon, found out about the Nielson group’s proposal to the government to build an airport on a turnkey basis, he immediately offered a portion of Hacienda San Pedro as a possible site for the facility. It was an ideal location for the airport because Makati was then just a sparsely populated town adjacent to the capital Manila. The site was located on a hard tract of land jutting from rice fields, clearly visible from the air, allowing clear approaches from all sides. Nielson’s group took up the offer and the airport was eventually inaugurated in July 1937.

The Nielson Airport became the base of the American Far Eastern School of Aviation. More importantly, with the introduction of commercial air services at the airport, it became the primary gateway between Manila and the rest of the country and, later, between the Philippines and the world. The Philippine Aerial Taxi Company (PATCO), the first airline company in the Philippines, and the Iloilo-Negros Air Express Company, the first Filipino-owned air service, started operating from the Nielson Airport. When Philippine Air Lines was established, its very first flight took off in March 1941 from the Nielson Airport for Baguio.

Soon, however, the expansionist plans of the militarists in power in Japan became evident and began to pose a serious security threat to its neighboring countries. One of the responses of authorities in the Philippines was to set up the Far East Air Force (FEAF) headquarters at the Nielson Airport. Commercial flights at the airport were halted in October 1941 and the private carriers were asked to relocate their services to make room for the U.S. Army Air Corps.

When Japanese planes finally attacked the Philippines on 8 December 1941, the planes were actually spotted by a radar station in Northern Luzon, which immediately alerted the FEAF headquarters at Nielson. Unfortunately, by the time FEAF officers were finally able to get through to Clark Air Base in Pampanga, it was already too late and Japanese bombs were already dropping on Clark. By December 9, Nielson Airport was also under siege. After the Americans were forced to retreat from the Philippines and the Japanese occupation forces took over, the latter sequestered Nielson and turned the airport’s radio tower and passenger terminal into one of their headquarters. It wasn’t until the liberation of Manila that the Americans were again able to wrest control of the airport from the Japanese. The partially damaged airport and its facilities were fully restored and commercial air services, including international flights, resumed in 1946.

In 1948, when the airport finally ceased operations in Makati to relocate elsewhere, ownership of the airport’s permanent facilities was passed on to the owner of the land, Ayala y Cia. Although the runways were eventually converted into roads and other airport structures were sacrificed to give way to the development of the Makati business and commercial district, the owners took extra pains to preserve the airport’s passenger terminal and control tower, which came to be known as the Nielson Tower.

In the succeeding years, various uses were found for the Nielson Tower, a two-story concrete structure wittily designed to resemble an airplane from a bird’s-eye view. At one point, it served as the headquarters of a police detachment. It also housed the offices of the Ayala-owned Integrated Property Management Corporation for several years. From the late 1970s up to April 1994, a group of Filipino investors leased the Nielson Tower and turned it into a semi-private, first-class club/restaurant. In 1996, after almost two years of renovation work, the Nielson Tower finally and officially became the permanent home of the Filipinas Heritage Library.

I love that pic of the Robinsons-Equitable tower!! hve to see the other pics on the previous pages.... and that Makati pic in Renell's post looks nice!! small cluster of towers from that view. what is that big silver tower in the middle? never seen before.. or is that a rendering???

Here's a pic of the Nielson Airport in the 1930s.
http://www.unescobkk.org/culture/images/nielson3.jpg

Another.
http://www.unescobkk.org/culture/images/nielson2.jpg

Airport entrance today.
http://www.unescobkk.org/culture/images/nielsonjpeg.jpg

How interesting. Thank you so much for that article and pics, mike:) Now i feel like visiting the heritage library.
Maybe these posts belong to Airplane and Airline. But i guess i'll leave them here for now because they are about Makati's history.

that building is really a different sight in the middle of all these modern buildings.

if you don't know the existence of this tower, i'd reckon one would never know Makati has buildings dating back to 1930

One could say that it's not just a footnote in Makati's history... the airport is central to the Makati CBD, if not instrumental to Makati CBD. I believe two of the streets around Ayala Triangle were runways 1 and 2 as Mysaong posted above. I believe they're Ayala Ave and Paseo de Roxas now.

BTW, Nielson Tower is not only a libary today. The Tower Room (at one point one of the tallest buildings in Makati-- funny because it's a squat two story building) is now used as a function room. They rent it out for anybody who wants to hold meetings and the such. WHen I worked in the Philippines, I attended a couple of events there. As my boss was in the meetings upstairs, I went through some of their books. It's a very nice meeting room.

The Filipinas Heritage Library in the Nielson Tower is located just a few meters behind the old Makati Stock Exchange Building.

that building is really a different sight in the middle of all these modern buildings.

if you don't know the existence of this tower, i'd reckon one would never know Makati has buildings dating back to 1930

Maybe the oldest building in the CBD. But Makati has buildings dating back to the 1800s.

yeah, Makati CBD, sorry, i meant that.

the Our Lady of Guadalupe Church dates back to Spanish times. i dunno if there are other churches like that in Makait

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid112/p4a851fa13ca70d4f9be36d6e20da9ea4/f8fb9452.jpg

what building is this??? never seen it before... in fact, haven't seen many of the buildings posted here... and to think that I live in Manila - that's sad. hehehe... looks like a pretty cool low-rise though... and I love the two other pics on the same post as the pic above... especially the one with the sunset/rise. awesome job Renell!!

I believe Makati's skyline and individual buildings can easily compete with those from all other countries... after seeing these pictures. Vancouver's skyline just looks a bit better cause it's pretty new still and there aren't 30+ y/o buildings like Makati's got. same with Hong Kong. but compared to Vancouver scrapers, ours look wway, way taller!! can't wait for the next office boom. hope more call centers and ther expansions will do the job.

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid112/p4a851fa13ca70d4f9be36d6e20da9ea4/f8fb9452.jpg

what building is this??? never seen it before... in fact, haven't seen many of the buildings posted here... and to think that I live in Manila - that's sad. hehehe... looks like a pretty cool low-rise though... and I love the two other pics on the same post as the pic above... especially the one with the sunset/rise. awesome job Renell!!


That building is the base for the Rufino tower on Ayala (I think corner Herrera). Rufino would be a cool building except that it's two buildings in one. The base alone is kind of funky looking and was designed by national artist for architecture, Juan Nakpil. It's a classic Philippine modern building from the 60s. I guess that's why they didn't demolish it when they decided to expand Rufino building by turning Nakpil's work into a podium for the tower above it. The result was that now we have a podium that doesn't match its tower-- and so they look like independently, they would be beautiful, but together they're kind of awkward. But it's all good. I like the creative way they decided to preserve the work of a national artist.

You see the tower above it here in the middle of this picture:
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid112/p59bd980c133085abe812f1de066140c3/f8f8c3af.jpg

i have a good set of Rufino pics, knowing that we in SSC lack good Rufino pics.

cool... you really can't tell that the two are one building from those two pics... hehehe.... so when they decided to build the scraper, they just redid the base part of Nakpil???? I guess that's a pretty good way of preserving and refurbishing old works of architecture...

well both the base and the skyscraper are both very interesting in paper. one's a work of a national artist, the other is the tallest steel skyscraper in the country

Yeah tallest completely steel structure or something... I agree the combo is good on paper, but in reality they dont match up too well. Looks quite vapid.

indeed both do not look good in real.

i think it was the tallest structutal steel and glass skyscraper "when it was built". and the very first of its kind when it was constructed.

i think it was the tallest structutal steel and glass skyscraper "when it was built". and the very first of its kind when it was constructed.

hmm.. meaning something it's type is taller now?

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid113/pf754c81b3bbaef7ef616112c6ec03ec0/f8f4bc78.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid113/p7f44ab93118fb8709895dbfe0d477998/f8f4bc40.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid113/p819402819b0ed6fbbd6c4d7f3aa70449/f8f4bc6c.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid113/pd642c8e729cc86f1b0ef1daafa7cbb60/f8f4bcf7.jpg

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid113/p3cb460936e804cca318728d10fb80474/f8f4bc64.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid113/pe2cc8d65ab1728424037fc3175bcb890/f8f4bca2.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid113/p475ca7fb9e27428f4836083f127c4d3e/f8f4bc4b.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid113/p99a4c67a5de5b16b6d822c0bf9d3e332/f8f4bcb0.jpg

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid113/pf81dfe85b03466125a8fa52086caca5a/f8f4bccd.jpg
last pic. have to upload more.. it's RCBC btw

Nice pics, renell!

Nice pics renell.

@ Francis... Rufino was the tallest skyscraper in the country when it was completed. But it is still currently the tallest completely steel frame skyscraper right now.

oh, im sorry. thanks for that Ryan.
now i know. does that mean there's no concrete used in constructing the building? :D
nice photos Renell, makes me love RCBC even more. maybe i should tell our CEO, that's its time to move there while there's still space available. or else, i will leave the company. and his expense. hahahaah....:D the guts!

no idea...there should be concrete.:D

hehe, do that and you'd find yourself on the streets the next day.

....i think u've seen this all b 4..but here it goes anyhow...


Makati SKYline behind NAIA....u can see our flagship airline... and four of its wonderful flying machines...woo hoo...oldest asian airliner!!!

thanks jack herrera for this pic..from airliners.net

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid113/pe581fae09e945c1bb473e3dec049c8a8/f8e4af10.jpg

thanks for airliners.net...mr. buenaventura
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid113/pf96df2e6911657d6852fd9a3fde2bfc7/f8e4ac67.jpg

speaking of Rufino, more pics of Rufino and Ayala ave
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid113/p745cde209937f5c3fa561ef951ee51d3/f8e6f20b.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid113/p1bd4c549fcef6435f26d283eec872184/f8e6f210.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid113/p747e11db0b0f7af144f8267c061b6452/f8e6f215.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid113/pe6a56231a5ea88f5d8578e2c54b13974/f8e6f21b.jpg

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid113/p26046dfd79eb9b91a64a1f0fe9a48c23/f8e6f222.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid113/p9a7d0640f26af3e762b3d607e1a4582c/f8e6fc43.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid113/pc884a7e0cb68b164ba42a58ff955415b/f8e6fc4a.jpg

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid113/pfe45c1843e856689d7fbc5d122e4acda/f8e6fc53.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid113/pc8e53fa7a32eb35164608265b2edf639/f8e6fc58.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid113/p9f6dabffc6ed35f218966c9942ff1523/f8e6fc66.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid113/p369ec8f50370ab962ca28bf2508ab036/f8e6fc69.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid113/p6cc56f9518b16d5a21670d41f99dc309/f8e6fc75.jpg

Nice pics, renell! We finally have good pics of Rufino!:D
Some classic angles, nice.

Nice pics, renell! We finally have good pics of Rufino!:D
Some classic angles, nice.

you should see some in high-res :guns1:

most of them are tried and tested angles, but you can't really get enough of them.
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid113/pb1ef4da8c9cb0c4ebf2876e1c4f675c2/f8e6fc7d.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid113/pebdc0f1e1b56e09214e06971d8f23244/f8e6fc85.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid113/pbd1d7b03e25774fe924873ebbc43d101/f8e6fc89.jpg

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid113/p6bd0c92c5293dbc761601d91fe9654b5/f8e6fc92.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid113/p06da0ef6619a9b4a298c13d793b04361/f8e6fca2.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid113/pd23be8c5425a53177fdab9a28808c66d/f8e663df.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid113/p1a0fc9e525b90649816c6ac4c41a4a76/f8e663ed.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid113/pa20ed0fb88afef4e07c991c059e7dea6/f8e663f1.jpg

this will be the last set of pics, again, before saturday.
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid113/pc040f71c74e0b94cc0b37498284ec9e9/f8e663f8.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid113/p6344e91dd86e19830956123c3bda9a97/f8e663fa.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid113/pd9da453c1f59df506da3f0e95d89c6d2/f8e663fc.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid113/padf55482261d8fdbc34f406de4a9a57f/f8e66404.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid113/p7f33a657cdb953c529836bbf18a4f97a/f8e66406.jpg

Those pictures are b-e-a-utiful! Thanks renell!

What's the UC (or abandoned construction) in the set above?

What's the UC (or abandoned construction) in the set above?

thats.. umm.. Jaka Tower 186m/610ft. it's been abandoned for years now.

renell, great!!! :applause: :applause: :applause:

Sweet pics, renell. You are the master of individual, street level skyscraper shots:D

lol, thank you all. bear in mind that i have just started:D that second cd still hasn't been uploaded to imagestation.

and again, no more new pics until next weekend, or even maybe more later

great...so hav u chosen ur signature shot/view yet?

i dunno, and i don't think i'll ever find one. it'd be best if you people decided it

I really wish Jaka gets re-started...Somebody buy it and finish it! It has a pretty good design by HOK, although the base is quite dull. But if it gets built, it will block the front views of GT and RCBC:cry:

maybe someone will buy it soon, but i don't see it being continued to the maximum 186m.

but it better finish soon, it's ugly :bash:

yeah, hopefully the office space get a boom and we will see the reconstruction of jaka.

yeah, it is a nice designed building by HOK =)

demolish it!

you dont like jaka tower francis? why? =)

i dont like the unfinished jaka. i remember when i was still freshman in college...1997, when this proposed tower claimed a fame to be the Philippine's Tallest...but PB Com was erected...whilst this one is still a u/c. an eyesore indeed.

I agree with Francis. I think they should demolish the Jaka shell. Other than the fact that chances of the building reaching its full height given the years of structural neglect, one thing that bothers me about it is its located between two vacant lots. Say if Jaka does get built even to its original height, what is stopping other developers from building office towers of the same height beside it, hence resulting in the dreaded Burgundy/West of Ayala scenario. I think a developer should buy the two lots beside Jaka, demolish the shell, and build a much nicer and possibly taller building. Perhaps even adjust the location so the GT International won't be blocked.

Besides, notice Jaka having bare walls on the sides. UGH!!!! :rant:

I guess i'd have to agree with you after that one. The structure should be quite weak now after being left out for so long. It would be better to demolish it (its so ugly!) now and start all over with a new, clean design.

I think Jaka's bare walls is only on the base. The rest of the building will not have bare walls on the sides.

but its almost 1/3 of the structural height. btw, the entrance looks grand...collosal columns. too bad it was halted for quite a long time now. 7 years? i guess construction was started along with LKG tower.

Nah, not 1/3...More like 1/5 or 1/6, at best 1/4....its a pretty tall tower, and so far only the base and a few floors are built. It does seem that it will look grand with its columns but i think the structure has decayed and the metal struts have rusted. They would have to reinforce them if they are to continue, better yet, demolish and start all over.

i've always ruled out demolition. developers in the country usually don't demolish unless it's really needed. and lately the only things i've seen demolished are old Art Deco buildings or classic buildings in Manila. there's more chances of this one finished with it's current height than it being demolished. unless though, the structure is really deteriorating. we might see it gone.

Well, if you guys really want the JAKA tower to be finished then I guess we all ought to vote for Enrile. Hehe. :-)

By the way, is there any news at all about the planned monorail around the Makati CBD? I last heard about it years ago in an article discussing the pedestrian walkway system. When the walkway network is done raw they plan to put up a monorail. I think this'll be a great hi-tech alternative to the "Makati Loop" vans.

I dont think Enrile will finish Jaka. Some other firm should buy it and start all over again.

Absent said something earlier about that monorial. Mayor Binay proposed a loop around Makati CBD and into BGC...that all i know though.

There's a similar system in Seattle, I think it might be an efficient means of travel between business districts, they could even have a park and ride to decongest the streets.

if i'm not mistaken, Enrile was trying to sell that lot to fund his other projects..

monorail... i'd prefer a subway..

^^ That is correct, Renell. Enrile was trying to sell the unfinished Jaka Tower so he can complete his Splendido Golf Course. Colliers International also keeps saying that Jaka will continue soon but they haven't been so accurate lately because they said the same thing about the AIC Empire Tower in Ortigas (another eyesore that needs to go but its bigger and taller....). :ohno:

As far as the history of Philippine developers never demolishing anything except for old buildings in Manila, well, the only reason why they rarely demolished buildings before is pure economics. The need wasn't always there before but they can be there in the future. But also note that quite a few Makati City buildings, some being still functional, have been demolished to make way for taller ones in periods of economic boom. Its all about location and notable buildings like PhilamLife, GT International and PBCom (not sure but I think there was a building on its site before) had fully functional buildings in their place. Enterprise is also another complex built on a site with an existing building but the former corporate HQ of San Miguel was structurally damaged during the July 1990 earthquake. Makati Stock Exchange building and the Benguet Corp building in Ortigas are also slated for demolishion if the Ayala Triangle and SM-KS proceeds. :yes:

One thing that disturbs me about this trend is how they want to demolish classics like InsularLife and the fear of them demolishing the Madrigal building which can result in the much dreaded Burgundy/West of Ayala scenario right beside the tallest building in the country. Ugh! :ohno:

Nice pics from your last trip renell!

I notice that many Makati scrapers look so blue.

hmm.. they do? must be the blue sky. in real life most of them, side by side, contrast each other

which one is AIC Empire in Ortigas? is it the middle tower? bec ive seen this middle tower being finished up...and the height was stopped from where it is...maybe it's half or less than half the supposed to be height. and now, it's considered topped off. at only about 20 storey for that matter. or less.

lol, a bit off topic there francis?

which one is AIC Empire in Ortigas? is it the middle tower? bec ive seen this middle tower being finished up...and the height was stopped from where it is...maybe it's half or less than half the supposed to be height. and now, it's considered topped off. at only about 20 storey for that matter. or less.

AIC Empire is not the one in the middle. it is the tall big one beside City and Land MegaPlaza and the Robinson's Galleria Complex. The one in the middle is the AIC Grande Tower and it is suppose to be 52 stories. AIC Empire is suppose to be 54 stories and the lot between it was suppose to be where AIC Crowne Tower is, at 57 stories. They did the excavation for AIC Crowne but they seem to have filled it up when the project was put on hold or cancelled. Thank God for that and I'm not too sad that the AIC complex was incomplete (wall to wall big fat 50+ storey buildings....ugh!). If the AIC Grande stops at 20+, then I'm fine with that. But I hope AIC Empire does reach its full height of 54 storeys with a plaza or low rise annex at the site of AIC Crowne because at 30+ (its slightly taller than the City and Land Megaplaza, which is 37 but it has higher ceilings), it looks kinda stumpy like a squat Vancouver office tower in steriods.

sorry renell for the out of place u/c discussin :D
so that's AIC Grande...and i guess the u/g parking spaces are being used...with this sign "Park at your own risk"...construction was on full swing when i visited the site. no construction for the AIC Empire. A tall AIC Grande tho should have looked nice...with columns, just like NYSE Bldg in NY. this is an office tower right? i guess its parking levels are deep down there. maybe more than 8 levels? ok, bk to the topic. which is? errr....Jaka Tower!

No, its residential. And AIC Crowne would have been a hotel. AIC Empire is an office tower.

its a residential? it looks more like an office tower Queetz. maybe i need to revive my pphoto career at the moment to get a photo of this one :D

Well, I'm curious now so post a pic. AIC Grande is suppose to be a residential and it could still be. But so is Paladium Summit until Enrile turned it into an office tower and renamed it Summit One.

it would be nice if we make a separate thread exclusive for rockwell center

you think so? i dunno... let the mods decide

Makati Stock Exchange building and the Benguet Corp building in Ortigas are also slated for demolishion if the Ayala Triangle and SM-KS proceeds. :yes:


my uncle works for Benguet and I remember him saying that one thing that can prevent the Benguet Building from being demolished is that it was designed by a Philippine National Artist (I forgot who that was though...) :dunno:

The Benguet Buildng is one of my favorite buildings in Metro Manila. It's the perfect counterpoint to the SMC Headquarters across the way. I'm already sad about its impending doom, as cool as the SM KS project will be.

I know, the Benguet building is a classic. its short but nice. But since i'm all worked out for SM-KS, its gotta go...

@ renell and ronnaveth - if you guys wanna start a Rockwell thread, go ahead. you dont need the mods to decide that:D As long as it will create lots of discussion.;)

The Benguet Buildng is one of my favorite buildings in Metro Manila. It's the perfect counterpoint to the SMC Headquarters across the way. I'm already sad about its impending doom, as cool as the SM KS project will be.

i've seen that building in a photo, the material it's built out of seems weird.... the facade...

hey guys... do you know what structures in two areas in Makati are being built.. one is at the corner of Edsa and Arnaiz Ave beside Slimmers and Dusit... and the other at the corner of Arnaiz and Chino Roces (former area of WalterMart)?

I dunno what the u/c in EDSA corner Arnaiz...There is? Wonder what it is, probably somebody here can tell us.

As for Arnaiz corner Pasong Tamo (Waltermart), the u/c is a new Waltermart! They are doing a major renovation and building a bigger, better Waltermart:okay:

uhh.. ok... so its a new WalterMart... I thought that there would be a new high rise on that spot

actually one on Edsa...I thought I was something that was halted... but this evening I saw that the construction crane of that big dig is operational... :D

hmm... i don't remember seeing a big blank lot near Dusit.. but i could be wrong..

the lot is fenced.... i only noticed that it was dugged up was when i went to Slimmers Gym across the street...:D I think it was on hold for some time....

i know that one Pau...
that's the one across Dusit. not really wide area. i didn't mind posting it here since i dunno what's up down there. the next step for you now is to ask the construction people what is happening. but most of the times, these guys dunno what are they up to. nkkatuwa. dapat alam nila, just like the construction people of Residences...they got a photo of the tower right at the site, where everyone could see...at least, me inspiration and self-esteem booster...naks....

hehehe... oki.. i'll try to get and see what is that structure being built... :D at first I thought it was just an abandoned construction area... until I saw last night that the crane is operational.... :D

the foundation might give you an idea if it will be tall or not. a deep foundation usually means it's going to be tall... :)

its a deep one... i think its around 3 levels deep at least....

haven't checked it closely yet. but i don't think something tall will be built on that location. or would it be a hotel or something? haha...Pau, better yet, consult the construction people when u go there. i remember one time, when i was checking Radissons construction site...no one on site seemed to know the project. so i never got any info.
btw, the location is quite out of way for me @ Pau. u work along Arnaiz, yeah? then u could check it on your way home. if the foundation is 3 level deep,then it would be something like 15 storey high, at least.

well.. I passed through the construction area this evening on my way to the office and they have no markings of what is that construction for... and no one is working on the area... maybe I'll try another day when I'm in my regular morning shift...

that means you're at work right now?
same here...been here since 11 am, and im planning to go home tomorrow at 6, so i won't be working during the weekends, then i can listen as Jason Mraz sings "Sleep All Day..."....:D

yup... i'm on night shift 9pm-6am today... on tuesday i'm back to my 830-530 shift... we're just communicating with our Austin counterparts...

Austin, Texas? naksss...astig. buti kaw Austin lang...kami, all around the world. but that's thru letters, they seldom call. kung upset lang at very urgent. :D

wat do you do?... Dell Inc (Austin ang HQ) ang client nmin kasi today... we're doing customizations for their system....

were into imports and exports facilitation for third world african and latin american coutries (3rd worlds mostly), but were not a humanitarian firm. we only got close links with government agencies specially Customs and Finance. and since imports by such coutries come from anywhere else in the world, we deal with a lot of regional offices worldwide. depending where the goods are exported from. for US and Canada exports, they're handled by a similar office in Miami...there's another in Chile and some self-standing offices (since they got high volume exports) like France, India, and formerly Italy. Italy has already moved their processing here. Ahhh...pagod na ako. consolation na lang sa akin, yung thought of working up here at Citibank tower. :D

hehehe... so bc nga kayo kasi you deal with different time zones... :D

me.. I'm here not doing much... actually naglaro lang ako kanina ng simcity.. hehehe...

yeah, different time zones. that's very stressful to a 22 yr old guy like me. :mad: :sly:
my real shift is 6-3, but i have to change shift to do some things out of work.
most of the times, my teammates leave the office past 12 midnight. nobody works in graveyard shift like you do. i can't imagine myself doing that either.
ahhh...miss ko na kama ko.

Pau, you're a Simcity fan? So are a lot of us, including me!!:D There is even a simcity forum in SSC. Its in the world-forums;)

Well, you guys continue to work hard...its earning you some good cash!:D

yeah... I saw that forum when I was lurking around yesterday... i am a BIG fan of it... I even bought the original copies of simcity from SimCity3000, SimCity4 upto RushHour.... :D

well... I think that most people who liked the game... like cityscapes and high rise structures.... :D

used to play SC3K a heck lot. but my computer cant support the 4th..:( oh well, i just look at my loads of Makati pics

still playin SC3 wen i hav spare time.. i have 10 Megacities and they are making surplus of bout 12,000 evry yr :D:D.. for sum reason all my Megacities highly resemble MM.. theres 2 main business districts (one Makati one Ortigas), malls, condos, promenade and slum like areas with flyovers etc.. maybe its my longing to bring MM to dreary London! haha

can u believe that i STILL havn't got SC4.. i'll prob get it 2moro! :).. i'll make an SC4 version of Makati City haha

i tried making Metro Manila out of SC3k.. didnt look so good though:D

I also bought original CDs of SC4 and SC4: Rush Hour.:D
I've made a big city and i'm working on an even bigger one. I just havent had the time lately... It takes lots of time...

I made some Philipipine skyscrapers for the Simcity 3000 BAT. If I recall, they are the PhilamLife Tower (did it window by window), Rufino Pacific Tower, LKG Tower (was called ICEC back then), a poor copy of Robsinson's Summit (was JG Summit back then), the PS Bank tower, Petron Megaplaza (the model is nice but I missed the annex, hence not too accurate), Wynsum Corporate Plaza, Strata 2000 and Tektite Towers. Unfortunately, I can't find them anymore... :cry:

What I'd really like to see if someone can do BAT buildings of Philippine skyscrapers.....cough GT International.... for Simcity 4! :yes:

http://www.geocities.com/todi_pogy/SREPInternationalTower.txt

here's my Gt from paint

woww ren! r u sure u drew that GT in MSPaint haha! ure truly skilled :D.. actually i tried doin a random building (NOT GT International :D) for that "your-skyscraper" thread thing.. turned out like it was drawn by a drunkard HAHA:D.. heres my monstrosity called Maharlika Tower (haha)
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid115/p3771013bf496186097796491ed18bc18/f8be3b66.jpg
WAH :( Panget e!
so considering that my monsrosity was made in MSPaint in an hour (i think) how long did it take ya to put up the GT Int. onto Paint?? :D:D

(whats BAT??? i'm not an architect :D haha)

Rennel, any chance you of playing Simcity 4 Rush Hour, learning how to use GMax and make the GT International into a BAT building for us to use? Its a very complex program though and does takes weeks to do one building...

pls naman mag post kayo ng mga latest na pics on makati

:eek: Wow, thats awesome, renell! Looks really nice, much better than the GT in the skyscraperpage diagram. Great job, how long did it take you to do that?

ronnaveth, well we dont have any. Not unless somebody that lives in MM will take some;) Francis, SunKing, JudeD all have good cameras. I will take MM pics, but only on July when i get there.

wow renell... that was a very nice GT Tower.... :D yeah I hope someone could make Philippine Towers for SC4.... wow... mukhang tama ang napadparan kong board ahh.... same interests... :D

hopefully one of these days.. I'll purchase a DGCam so that I could share pictures here... :D I just recently lost my 3650 fone so I wasn't able to take some.... hmm... maybe I'll try to load some that I have taken and loaded in my PC at the office... can anybody tell me where can I load a picture so I can post some... :D

Rennel, any chance you of playing Simcity 4 Rush Hour, learning how to use GMax and make the GT International into a BAT building for us to use? Its a very complex program though and does takes weeks to do one building...

yep, all in MS Paint;) took me weeks though.

@queetz, i don't play SC4 unfortunately...

yep, all in MS Paint;) took me weeks though.

@queetz, i don't play SC4 unfortunately...

:cry:

wow! nice @renell. mahusay! :bow:

@pau_p1..you can upload your pictures at www.imagestation.com :)

wow! nice @renell. mahusay! :bow:

@pau_p1..you can upload your pictures at www.imagestation.com :)

salamat...:D

renell, your gt tower drawing is great. maybe you can make a diagram on ssp. and then make some more on makati and ortigas (maybe even manila) buildings that dun have diagrams yet. hehe. ok i'm too demanding and yea i forgot you're into 3d illustrations.

renell, i think weirdo's suggestions are quite good. Your 3D drawings are awesome, you should make more, and showcase them to the world:D

i'm not into 2d illustrations, but i continued to base my 3d works on Makati skyscrapers

Some Makati City pitures:
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid116/p1737bbc684079f6980d7870872f4e2d1/f8b8fe0a.jpg http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid116/p0398ade1e73da12a5748b9eb86696b49/f8b8fea7.jpg http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid116/p6fda19c0ebb6242a66a87267b6b9734e/f8b8fe31.jpg http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid116/p2228fcbb7e84e0f08c003941db6c634d/f8b8fe83.jpg http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid116/p22dc9eb12324f18daedcee6ac87c3b55/f8b8fed8.jpg

Sweet pics, Sunking. You just gotta love RCBC's glassy curves.:cool:

sweet pics. :guns1: gotta post mine soon...especially the u/c ones, they'll get outdated pretty soon

Here are some old panoramas that i found, and boybaha stitched:

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/photopost/data/500/93hugemakatipano.jpg
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/photopost/data/500/93makati_pano.jpg

nice pics! :eek2:

i like the second one better, with all the green and stuffs!

nice. thanks for stitching.

Too bad the cross-hatching showed up. I don't know why it's there. The orig pics didn't have the cross-hatching. It must be jpeg artifacts or something.

arghhh...there goes Citibank again.
btw, Enterprise had lighted up again. ive seen it twice, but im guessing they're doing that every night now. i dunno till when. they only do that every Dec to 2nd week of january. if u dun know how it looks like when lighted up, look at my avatar...i took that pic last December. :D

yeah... Enterprise looks nice lighted... like a New York tower....:D

do you guys think the time would come when those rich people living in rich mansions in makati would move elsewhere so we can build more buildings, more parks in that area?

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/photopost/data/500/93makati_pano.jpg

then again, those mansions are what makes our skyline different from skylines from other asian cities. instead of parks, we have trees from lots of rich people. :D

Hard to say...i doubt it though. Many rich people move to AAV, residential complexes in QC, etc while maintaining a house in Forbes Park, Dasmarinas, etc...