The home of Philippine Culture and the Arts. An example of early application of pre-cast and pre-stressed concrete.

From pile driving and almost 90% pre-cast, this 10,000 seating capacity theater was built for the 1974 Miss Universe Beauty Pagent, and other performances succeedingly. It was completed in only 77 days.
DMCI ability to finish tightly-scheduled projects on time made a big impression on Mrs. Marcos and convinces her to entrust other projects like the PICC and the Philippine Plaza Hotel to DMCI.

Originally built before the war, and from the original 5-storey structure, a 21-storey concrete building was added to accommodate 630 luxury rooms. It is the oldest premier hotel in the Philippines, restored with the best of Philippine wood (Narra). The total floor area of the new hotel, including the renovated original structure is 68,000sq.m.

This state of the art facility designed by Leandro Locsin was built on 20,000 pre-stressed piles, considered to be most in one single project. The sprawling convention center is made up of a number of interconnected structures. A project of this size would normally take three years or more to finish, considering that DMCI was also doing two large hotels at the same time. The PICC was undertaken in only 23 months.