![]() The austere architectural design, lack of entrances and the placement of the clock tower, it all didn’t make sense in the beginning years. The Manila City Hall received unfavorable reviews back in the day it was built. Is it really intended to make it look like a coffin? And although I never experienced it first hand, I can clearly remember all the ghost stories surrounding the City Hall that was published in horror books. Paranormal believers thinks that it is the perfect place for spirits to dwell. The City Hall is infamous for its stories of the paranormal, which starts from the casket-shaped building plan. to Taft Avenue, and although the architecture is very familiar to the neoclassical style, it lacks the common symmetry required for a neoclassical structure, having an irregular hexagonal shape with which it resembled a casket. The Manila City Hall, built in 1939 and was planned and designed by Architect Antonio Toledo, is one of the oldest neoclassical structures along the area of Padre Burgos St. ![]() It’s like we’re going to visit the Parthenon. Tall columns that rise full height of the building, doomed roofs, triangular pediments, flat walls, ionic capitals and clear designs. Seeing neoclassical structures reminds me of the Greek culture, especially those with regards to Greek mythology. ![]() In form, Neoclassical architecture emphasizes the wall rather than chiaroscuro and maintains separate identities to each of its parts. In its purest form it is a style principally derived from the architecture of Classical Greece and Rome. According to wikipedia, Neoclassical architecture is an architectural style produced by the neoclassical movement that began in the mid-18th century, manifested both in its details as a reaction against the Rococo style of naturalistic ornament, and in its architectural formulas as an outgrowth of some classicizing features of Late Baroque. Just last Friday, me, along with fifteen other classmates, traveled to Manila to visit the metro’s most prominent historical institutional buildings.
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