The Tektite Towers in Ortigas Center, Pasig City houses the Philippine Stock Exchange. It was designed by architect Rogelio Villarosa and built in 1989 as the new home for the Manila Stock Exchange, featuring a ziggurat-like facade inspired by falling tektite rock. The towers appear lighter at the top with reflective glass versus heavy concrete at the bottom.
The Tektite Towers in Ortigas Center, Pasig City houses the Philippine Stock Exchange. It was designed by architect Rogelio Villarosa and built in 1989 as the new home for the Manila Stock Exchange, featuring a ziggurat-like facade inspired by falling tektite rock. The towers appear lighter at the top with reflective glass versus heavy concrete at the bottom.
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HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE: POST MODERNISM BUILDING EXAMPLE IN THE PHILIPPINES
The Tektite Towers in Ortigas Center, Pasig City houses the Philippine Stock Exchange. It was designed by architect Rogelio Villarosa and built in 1989 as the new home for the Manila Stock Exchange, featuring a ziggurat-like facade inspired by falling tektite rock. The towers appear lighter at the top with reflective glass versus heavy concrete at the bottom.
The Tektite Towers in Ortigas Center, Pasig City houses the Philippine Stock Exchange. It was designed by architect Rogelio Villarosa and built in 1989 as the new home for the Manila Stock Exchange, featuring a ziggurat-like facade inspired by falling tektite rock. The towers appear lighter at the top with reflective glass versus heavy concrete at the bottom.
MODERNISM TOWERS TEKTITE TOWERS Right at the heart of Ortigas Center, the Pasig side of Ortigas Center in particular, lies the nerve center of commercial activity in the country. The Tektite Towers, also known formally as the Philippine Stock Exchange Centre, where the country’s national bourse, the Philippine Stock Exchange or PSE currently holds office. The PSE actually has it roots from way back, August 8, 1927 in particular when the Manila Stock Exchange was established in Binondo, Manila, becoming the first bourse to be established in the Philippines. That war also left Manila heavily destroyed and efforts to rebuild it were difficult to say the least.
At the same time, a new business district was
rising outside Manila, the formerly rural town of Makati was being developed by the Ayala family and attracted businesses who wished to start anew in a fresh environment, away from Manila and the memories of destruction caused by the war. This would lead to the establishment of a new bourse in the country as the Makati Stock Exchange was established on May 27, 1963. TEKTITE TOWERS Meanwhile, the Manila Stock Exchange grew out of its Binondo trading floor and by the 1980s was seeking a new home. At that time, Philrealty, a newly-established real estate company was building its first office building complex at the heart of Ortigas Center, a two- tower, each being 33 storeys in height, office building complex with 4-level podium connecting the two towers at the base. Philrealty offered the complex which was to be known as the Tektite Towers to the MSE to be the site of its new home, an offer the bourse accepted. Thus in 1989, the Manila Stock Exchange moved to the 18+ hectare Tektite Towers, also known then as the largest office building complex in the country. TEKTITE TOWERS ARCHITECT Architect: R.Villarosa Architects
The Tektite Towers feature a ziggurat-like
facade reminiscent of those in Manhattan skyscrapers. At night, the towers are made more iconic by the dramatic lighting and enhances the buildings’ capitalist imagery.
Rogelio Villarosa’s design concept for the
Philippine Stock Exchange (or Tektite Towers) in Ortigas Center, built in 1990, is inspired by tektite rock falling towards the earth. He wanted the buildings to appear lighter at the top, so the lower levels feature heavy concrete while the upper levels use reflective glass. WHO IS? Rogelio Villarosa founded Rogelio G. Villarosa Architects in 1972. From a sole proprietorship, he transitioned to a partnership with his son, Roy, in 1983, and shortened the firm’s name to R. Villarosa Architects.
One of the more recent major projects of the firm just
completed is the GMA Network Offices and Studios which is one of the top TV Network company in the country. RVA also designed the Tektite Towers Building in Pasig City, one of the biggest private office building complex in the country with a total floor area of approximately 250,000 square meters. Tektite Towers also houses the Philippine Stock Exchange Centre. INFORMATION NAME: TEKTITE TOWERS ALTERNATIVE NAME: PHILIPPINE STOCK EXCHANGE CENTER ADDRESS: EXCHANGE ROAD, ORTIGAS CENTER, PASIG CITY YEAR BUILT: 1994 FLOORS: 33 STOREYS (per TOWER) HEIGHT: 124 meters TOWERS: ◦ 1 – TEKTITE TOWERS WEST ◦ 2 – TEKTITE TOWERS EAST ARCHITECTURAL STYLE The Tektite Towers depicts a ziggurat-like style mixed with modern glass façade that portrays a Manhattan skyline. It portrays a post-modernist style where art and functionality are merged into one broad concept. REFERENCES ohttps://www.pinterest.ph/pin/457959855848443448/#:~:text=Tower%20Architect%3A%20R.- ,Villarosa%20Architects%20Currently%20housing%20the%20Philippine%20Stock%20Exchange%2C%20the%20Tektite,of%20those%20in%20 Manhattan%20skyscrapers.
