NEW MILLENIUM

- Exemplified by the garish application of pastel colors and the mixing and matching of ornament
styles
- Skyscrapers adopted the tripartite division of columnar architecture (tower – on – the- -
podium) : the podium , the shaft and the crown.
- TRIPARTITE - a method of visually organizing the facade of the building by dividing it up into
three sections, similar to as found on a Classical column (base, shaft, capital)
- Rise of master planned micro-cities like Bay City, Eastwood City, Fort Bonifacio Global City and
Rockwell Center, retail environments SM Mall of Asia, Gateway Mall, Trinoma, and Greenbelt
Mall; and gated communities of suburban pretensions.
- Global architectural firms bestow “designer labels” to megastructures like
 Michael Graves’ World Trade Exchange, - is a 35-story mixed-use tower
located in Metro Manila's historic district near Manila Bay designed by
Michael graves - New JerseyAmerican architect and designer, one of the
principal figures in the postmodernist movement. born July 9, 1934,
Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.—died March 12, 2015, Princeton,
 I.M. Pei’s Essensa Towers, which is designed as a world – class
residential address for a new urban center adjacent to forbes park and
the manila golf and polo clubs designed by I.M Pei , Chinese-born
American architect noted for his large, elegantly designed urban
buildings and complexes.
 Arquitectonica’s Pacific Plaza Tower, - The Pacific Plaza Towers are
high-end residential condominium skyscrapers located across One
McKinley Place in Bonifacio Global City, Philippines. The twin 53-storey
buildings, the North Tower and South Tower, were completed in 2001
and rise to 179 metres from the ground to their architectural top.
 Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates’ LKG Tower, - The LKG Tower is an office
skyscraper located in Makati, Philippines, and is one of the tallest in the
city. Standing at 180.1 metres, the building has 38 floors above ground,
and 5 basement levels for parking
 Skidmore and Owings & Merill’s Yuchengco Tower. - RCBC Plaza
Yuchengco Tower Architects: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, LLP, and W.V.
Coscolluela & Associate RCBC Plaza Yuchengco Tower is a corporate
skyscraper in Makati City. The building stands 192 m (629.92 ft) and
houses 46 floors above ground and 7 floors below ground. It is a popular
landmark to tourist and commuters being located at the corner of Ayala
Ave. and Buendia Ave. in Makati

- Architects were labeled as “late modernists” and, later as “neo-modernists” and “super
modernists.”
- Inspirations were drawn from aircraft technology, robotics and cyberspace as demonstrated by
the One San Miguel Building, the PBCom Tower, and the GT International Tower.
- Reflective blue or aquamarine curtain walls, aluminum cladding, metallic sun visors, and metal
mullions are mainstays of millennium skyscrapers.
- Presence of architecture of deconstruction, which is characterized physically by controlled
fragmentation, non-linear design processes, stimulating unpredictability, asymmetric
geometries and orchestrated chaos like the works of Alexius Medalla, Eduardo Calma and Joey
Yupangco.
ALEXUS MEDALLA
- is the Design Principal of ARkinamix - a collaboration of three passionate minds in the practice of
Architecture in Cebu City - Alexius B. Medalla, Janet Go Medalla, and Ryan Denver C. Rasines.
- ARkinamix has its beginnings in the year 1997 when Alex Medalla, with spouse, Janet Medalla
returned home to Cebu City, Philippines, after 12 years of experience with, influence by, and
mentorship under various architectural practices in Manila and Hong Kong
- Cebuano modernist architect, believes that modern architecture is the “spirit of an age”
- famous work of arkinamix - The Tinderbox, a café-restaurant famous for its humidor and deli,
has undergone an unprecedented facelift without closing its doors. The original store opened 30
years ago, one of the first in Cebu to offer wine, cheese and cigars. It operated from an old
house with timber framing and a six-meter frontage to the road. Arkinamix’s initial design
challenge was how to maximize the frontage to give Tinderbox a more expressive look and
design identity. The store was last renovated by Ed Calma before the turn of the millennium.
Medalla describes Calma’s work as “a modernist box with Neutra-ish vertical strip window
renditions.” The design was born out of the original house structure, and wasn’t built to last
because of the materials used then.

Eduardo Calma

- A multi-awarded architect, Eduardo Calma is known for designing luxurious homes in upscale
communities in the Philippines. He was awarded the TOYM (Ten Outstanding Young Men)
Award for Architecture in 2002 for his contribution to Philippine Contemporary Architecture
- 3 of his building, The Mind Museum, College of Saint Benilde School of Design, and the UP
Manila Museum of A History of Ideas were among the 20 designs nominated for the “Haligi ng
Dangal” awards by the National Commission on Culture and the Arts.

Joey Yupangco.

- is the Design Principal of Joey Yupangco + Associati, the former Dean of the De La Salle College
of St. Benilde School of Design and Arts, and a Design Consultant at the Office of the President
of De La Salle College of St. Benilde.
- A prolific and award-winning architect, Architect Yupangco has placed first in the LIMN Furniture
Competition in San Francisco, USA and won the Design Award in 2008 from 100: the Magazine,
among others. Relied on for his expertise in the field, Architect Yupangco has also sat as Design
Juror in Cebu X, the CITEM Awards, and the Japan G Awards.
 - New millennium architecture Advances in computer-aided design (CAD) and computer-aided
manufacturing (CAM) technologies.
- Implementation of “green architecture” to reverse the negative impact of buildings on human
health and on the environment by enhancing the efficiency and moderating the use of materials,
energy and space.
- The clamor to fight climate change has generated “green architecture” to minimize the negative
results of modernity and building high rise structures. The current trend is to improve efficiency
of constructed buildings while moderating the use of energy.

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