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In High Regard

“Give me a blank wall,” says Carmen Jimenez-Ong, “and I’ll put art on it or create art with it. It’s my life.”

One might be forgiven for thinking the dynamo CEO-slash-developer of Metro Manila’s Menarco Tower skyscraper is indulging in a little PR spin. That impression lasts only until you step through the glass doors of the slender, silvery building in the Philippine capital’s swanky Bonifacio Global City business district, and encounter a giant aluminum diptych

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