modern school building

This is the campus of supposedly a premiere university in the city located just at the edge of Claveria St. It now presents an elegant and contemporary facade, which was a relief. About a decade ago its campus used to be, in my opinion, a drab, coldly utilitarian, seemingly art-clueless structure complex protruding from out of the downtown area. More than two decades ago it was a hotspot for idealistic radical students and academia critical of a dictatorial era.

There's an added scene at the lower left corner of the picture. It portrays the diversity of the local populace as one can trace Spanish, Chinese, Malay and Indigenous races intermixed in the Dabawenyo blood. I wonder what the scenario was all about, the sunglass peddler probably tried to convince a senior citizen that he looks pogi (handsome in local dialect) if he buys his shades.