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Manila
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Newly-installed ornate lamp posts that line Jones Bridge in Manila are catching the attention of commuters and pedestrians.
The street lights were reportedly designed and built by Jerry Acuzar, the architect behind Las Casas Filipinas de Acuzar in Bataan. He was hired by the City’s administrator as a consultant.
Manila Mayor Isko Moreno earlier said that Chinese businessmen gave him P20 million to rehabilitate the bridge near a heritage site in the Pasig River.
The rehabilitation is part of the Manila administration’s push to preserve the city’s historical sites.
While commuters are amazed by the design, some netizens expressed concern over the city government’s capability to secure the lamp posts from vandals and thieves.
“Let’s see how long those lamp posts last before it gets cannibalized,” netizen Robert Po said.
-Tempo
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Brief History: 100 years of SERVICE
William Atkinson Jones Memorial Bridge. William Atkinson Jones (March 21, 1849 – April 17, 1918) was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1891 to 1918 from the first district of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
In 2019, the City Government of Manila began a rehabilitation project to "restore" the Jones Bridge to its near-original design using Beaux-Arts architecture similar to that of Pont Alexandre III in Paris and the return of the three original sculptures.
The William A. Jones Memorial Bridge, commonly known as the Jones Bridge, is an arched girder bridge that spans the Pasig River in the City of Manila, Philippines. It is named after the United States legislator William Atkinson Jones, who served as the chairman of the U.S. Insular Affairs House Committee which had previously exercised jurisdiction over
the Philippines and the principal author of the Jones Law that gave the country legislative autonomy from the United States. Built to replace Puente de España (Bridge of Spain), the bridge connects Quintin Paredes Road at the Binondo district to Padre Burgos Avenue at the Ermita district.
Originally designed by Filipino Architect Juan M. Arellano using Neoclassical architecture,
the first incarnation of the bridge features three arches resting on two heavy piers, adorned by faux-stone and concrete ornaments, as well as four sculptures on concrete plinths allegorically representing motherhood and nationhood.
The original bridge was destroyed during World War II by retreating Japanese troops and was reconstructed in 1946 by the U.S. and Philippine public works. The reconstructed bridge retained the three arches and two piers but removed all of the ornaments.
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