desirePlate 191 · Manila, Philippines

Cultural Center of the Philippines

A floating concrete volume, a late-modern theatre of a dictatorship's culture.

1969 · Leandro Locsin · Asia

The chamber score

Dandansoy

Visayan folk · Philippines

A baroque church in earthquake country: a farewell song that returns.

An original chamber arrangement in the climate of the work. The recording is not a copy. It is the room answering.

Why it is here

Locsin's CCP, a landmark of Philippine modernism.

Commission the full chamber

This monument is in the atlas. The rebuild can be written for you.

Ask the studio to reconstruct Cultural Center of the Philippines through desire — or shift it into another corridor.

Open a commission

Shift the feeling

What if Cultural Center of the Philippines was rebuilt as something else?

Ask the architect

One question. Stay in the room.