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Coconut Palace Architecture Overview

The Coconut Palace is located in Manila and is shaped like an octagon with a roof shaped like a traditional Filipino hat. It is made from Philippine hardwood, coconut shells, and coconut lumber. Each suite on the second floor represents a different Philippine region and its handicrafts. Notable features include a 101 shell chandelier and a table made of 40,000 coconut shell pieces. The Philippine Arena in Bocaue, Bulacan can seat up to 100,000 people inside and outside. It was designed by Populous to resemble a Greek amphitheater with tiered semi-circular seating divided into green, white, and red sections representing the Iglesia Ni Cristo flag colors.

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Coconut Palace Architecture Overview

The Coconut Palace is located in Manila and is shaped like an octagon with a roof shaped like a traditional Filipino hat. It is made from Philippine hardwood, coconut shells, and coconut lumber. Each suite on the second floor represents a different Philippine region and its handicrafts. Notable features include a 101 shell chandelier and a table made of 40,000 coconut shell pieces. The Philippine Arena in Bocaue, Bulacan can seat up to 100,000 people inside and outside. It was designed by Populous to resemble a Greek amphitheater with tiered semi-circular seating divided into green, white, and red sections representing the Iglesia Ni Cristo flag colors.

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Coconut Palace

The Coconut Palace is made of several types of


Philippine hardwood, coconut shells, and a specially engineered coconut
lumber apparently known as Imelda Madera. Each of the suites on the second
floor is named after a specific region of the Philippines and displays some of
the handicrafts these regions produce. The palace is located on F. Ma.
Guerrero Street at the Cultural Center of the Philippines between the Folk Arts
Theatre and the Sofitel Philippine Plaza. Before becoming the official
residence of the Vice President, the palace was used for wedding receptions.
The palace is shaped like an octagon (the shape given to a coconut before
being served), while the roof is shaped like a traditional Filipino salakot or hat.
Some of its highlights are the 101 coconut-shell chandelier, and the dining
table made of 40,000 tiny pieces of inlaid coconut shells. Highlighted as one
of the Cultural Center of the Philippines most striking structures for its
architecture and interiors, the palace celebrates the coconut as the ultimate
Tree of Life. From the coconut's roots to its trunk, bark, fruit, flower and shell,
the palace's design, form and ornamentation echo these elements.

Philippine Arena
Populous, a global mega-architecture firm, designed the arena through
their office in Brisbane, Australia. The arena has been master planned to
enable at least 50,000 people to gather inside the building and a further
50,000 to gather at a live site or plaza outside to share in major events. The
arena is a one-sided bowl. The lower bowl will be the most frequently used
part of the building and the architectural design allows for easy separation of
the lower bowl from the upper tier, by curtaining with acoustic and thermal
properties. The seating layout of the arena is different from that of a standard
arena where the stage is at the middle and is surrounded by seats. The
seating of the arena closely resembles that of a Greek amphitheater, built in a
semi-circle with the seats at the sides and front of the arena stage. The
seatings are divided into three sections. Each of the sections are colored
green, white and red the colors of the Iglesia Ni Cristo flag.

Malacaang Palace
The original structure was built in 1750 by Don Lus Rocha as a summer
house along the Pasig River. It was purchased by the state in 1825 as the
summer residence for the Spanish Governor-General. After the June 3, 1863
earthquake destroyed the Palacio del Governador (Governor's Palace) in
the walled city of Manila, it became the Governor-General's official residence.
After sovereignty over the Islands was ceded to the United States of America in
1898, it became the residence of the American Governors, with [Link]
Merritt being the first.

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