THE Iloilo City Government will receive the commemorative plaque to be installed at the Esplanade after winning the Haligi ng Dangal Award for best landscape architecture.
This, after Mayor Jose Espinosa III received the congratulatory letter from project director Gerard Rey Lico.
The awarding ceremony will be at Marble Hall of Ayuntamiento de Manila on Saturday, November 24.
A pioneering landscape work to redevelop a once neglected riverbank, the Esplanade generates a vibrant, walkable and memorable open space vital in today's urban civic life.
The Esplanade reclaimed a major thoroughfare for the benefit of pedestrians, creating a space of civic empowerment. It provides a space for leisure and tranquility, and revitalizes the connection between river, city, and people.
The Haligi ng Dangal is a biennial award conferred by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts through the National Committee on Architecture and the Allied Arts upon completed/executed works in Architecture and its Allied Professions namely, Landscape Architecture, Interior Design, and Environmental Planning.
The recognition aims to acknowledge exemplary works and to encourage the sustenance of the Filipino spirit, the development and improvement of the Filipino built Environment and enhancement of the awareness of the role of design and designers, particularly that of architecture and its allied profession in the social, economic and environmental development of the Philippines. (PR)