In an extension of their Coming to Our Senses Instagram series, JOS Mundo takes their guests on expeditions around the city and beyond. In theory, the Ramon Magsaysay Center is a large travertine tree. Established in 1967 and designed by architect Alfredo Luz and Associates, it is composed of an 18-storey building called the Commercial Tower, and a two-storey L-shaped complex called the Foundation Building.
According to Marie Perez, the Ramon Magsaysay Foundation’s chief librarian and archivist, the tower’s large pillars serve as deeply-rooted tree trunks that maintain the structure’s integrity by allowing it to sway with the wind and earthquakes. Like any other day, Manila Bay’s winds blew straight to the RMC, greeting JOS Mundo ’s handpicked guests as they arrived. “We were trying to think of people who would be really into seeing a building, because not everyone would be down, to be honest,” laughs creative director Karen Bolilia.
While curating the guest list, they were guided by a simple criteria: Who is design-minded? Who’s design-obsessed? Who would appreciate this? The RMC tour is the first edition of JOS Mundo’s Senses in the City, a sequence of field trips dedicated to imbuing the fashion brand’s ethos of uplifting local culture. It’s an inquiry into the cities we live in and provinces far flung; a three-dimensional extension of their ongoing Coming to Our Senses series on Instagram Stories, which began in 2020. “Regional expressions from hom.