Petition updateDismantle Torre De Manila Jail Manila Building Officials and DMCI Consunji photobombing desecrated JoseRizal MonumentPark view and violated 2009 NHCA (RA 10066) Manila Ordinance 8119 Resolution 121, 7-storey building height limit in historical sites2012June8 Horrible precedent - every home developer to just park their butts in historic landmarks
Jam FlorDapitan, Philippines
Jul 22, 2015 — http://theguywithablog.blogspot.com/2012_06_01_archive.html Friday, June 8, 2012 I See Rizal From My Bedroom Window Why, hello there, Dr. Rizal. (Photo courtesy of Carlos Celdran/Facebook) https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.338730946130.197062.329069471130&type=3 If you plan to buy a condominium unit at Torre de Manila, DMCI Homes latest project, you could be saying that yourself. You can quibble that technically, you'll only see a small portion of Rizal's back from your future property. This sets a horrible precedent - yes, I went there and I said it out loud - if we allow every home developer, coffee chain and mega-mall to just park their butts wherever they please, who cares if the site they plan to build on is unmissable from a culturally significant one; or one that gives us our strongest ties to our past, colonial or otherwise. I'm assuming that since DMCI Homes has a website and some "artist's rendition" mock-ups already online, the permits for this project have been approved and deemed "okay" by the city government of Manila. (See more at this address: http://www.torredemanila.com/?gclid=CMeTiMWwvrACFUNMpgodsQiVog) If this project pushes through, all tourism pictures of Luneta Park will now be inextricably inseparable from a glossy, new condominium from one of the largest developers of the country. The builders must be patting themselves on the back for such a marvelous coup, getting free publicity by way of Rizal himself. Just one question. Surely, our supposed heroes and our cultural/national heritage deserve better treatment than this?
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