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NOT one to ride on its previous accomplishments, architect-led
property firm G&W Architects, Engineers, Project Development
Consultants (G&W) is all set to push its high rise development
projects in Fort Bonifacio Global City a notch higher with a new
residential condominium that promises to be loaded with unique
features the company has come to be known for and more.
To be situated in a prime piece of land along
the Burgos Circle of the former military enclave, G&W recently
launched its 28-story Crescent Park Residences: the firm’s seventh
project in the area, which will offer buyers a welcome reprieve from
the typical “boxed-up” feel condominium living usually entails
through another one of the company’s trademark innovative designs.
“Every time we design a project in Fort
Bonifacio we always try to make it special. Aside from the use of
panoramic windows and multi-cornered units, we are now introducing
wide fronts for the Crescent Park Residences,” Terence Daniel Yu,
G&W chief executive architect and senior partner, said.
This new concept in condominium design G&W
has come up with, he affirmed, will see to it that Crescent Park
Residences’ units are well lit and ventilated by designing living
and dining areas along their perimeter; allowing each area to have
separate windows.
“Always, you have the dining and the living
and they’re all sharing one narrow window. Typical condo, it’s
always like that. But now, we’ve made it so that these areas will
now have ambient air because the wide fronts allow air to come in
and out for better air circulation,” he added.
Another feature that sets G&W’s Crescent
Park Residences apart from typical condominiums in the country is it
offers the convenience of low-density living at only four to eight
units per floor. The proposed floor area of the building will also
cover only a third of its total lot area, providing wide spaces for
residents to enjoy. Podiums in upper floors will house the
condominium’s amenities.
Besides G&W’s innovative design for its
new project, the company will also be bringing back the use of wide
floor-to-ceiling windows for the Crescent Park Residences from its
previous multi-cornered residence projects—guaranteeing would-be
tenants a sweeping view of the Manila Golf Club and the Burgos Park,
which sandwiches the site of the building, from most of the rooms.
Yu explained, “Usually in a condominium
there is only four corners but only one room has a corner with a
window. So what we did is we designed the configuration of the rooms
so that all these areas are corners. Because of this you will not
feel boxed up inside the room.”
The last time the company employed these
features, which it pioneered in the country, was in its Sapphire and
Blue Sapphire projects that preceded the Crescent Park Residences.
The two residential condominiums were so well received that they
were completely pre-sold three months before the start of
construction.
However, the G&W official said that despite
the company’s previous successes they would rather not rest on
their laurels because coming up with new ideas for condominium
development is a “challenge we put on ourselves.”
“Sapphire and Blue Sapphire were big hits. It
would have been easier for us to do another Sapphire-type
multi-corner type design and we are sure it would have sold well.
But we wanted to try create something different because we have lots
of ideas on how we want to improve condo design,” he said.
But this early, G&W’s move to come up with
fresh concepts for its new projects is again proving to be
successful as three-fourths of the Crescent Park Residences units
are already pre-sold in less than two weeks of soft-selling. The
project’s construction is scheduled to commence by April of this
year while its completion is targeted two years afterwards.
G&W’s other development projects in Fort
Bonifacio include Penhurst Parkplace, Kensington Place, and The
Grand Hamptons Tower 1 and 2. The architect-led property development
firm has done over a thousand projects across the country in its
more than 35 years in the industry.
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