With the recent appointment of twin brothers—architects Gil and Gary Coscolluela—as senior partners of WV Coscolluela and Associates, expect the 55-year-old firm to dish out strikingly beautiful and highly sustainable and useful buildings in the coming years.
As the Philippines positions itself as the regional hub of multinational corporations (MNCs), the demand for environment-friendly smart buildings is gaining traction.
It can be quite intimidating. As more and more buildings turn out to be green, or at least try to be green, as you have seen in clever and creative advertising, you wonder how your conventional building can ever keep up with this rapid pace of technical development.
The race to being green is on. While the development of green buildings in the Philippines is regarded by some analysts as still being on its pilot stage, a great number of industry players have already begun to incorporate the so-called “green features” to tap the numerous benefits that sustainable structures can bring.
The strongest argument today for the need for green buildings is the possibility of storm, flooding and power blackout. There is also the possibility of terrorist attack that can destroy electric power distribution.
If the world wants to do something about global warming then we need to change more than just how we live: We also need to improve our work places since these buildings are not just where we work, play and rest—they are where we invest most of our financial and natural capital.
One color has been changing the way buildings and their components are now being made. It is, undoubtedly, green. But whereas before that color represented money and unbridled profits, and which had ironically cast a gray pall over the environment, today’s green stands for environmental sustainability.
On paper, it looks radically different, ecologically and socially responsible. And the company that will develop the project from the ground up guarantees that the reality will live up to the promise. A “green” tower is being trumpeted as ideal headquarters for multinationals, and not just because its location is at the heart of the [...]
