THE National Quincentennial Committee (NQC) has announced the grand prize winner of the Lapulapu National Monument Design Competition to be an architect of the Tarlac-based Sicat Design Services.

Rex B. Sicat Jr., 26, principal architect of Sicat Design Services, will receive P300,000, a certificate of recognition, and other commemorative items from the NQC and the National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NHCP).

The HQC said Sicat’s work “is envisioned to serve as basis for the Lapulapu National Monument,” which will be enshrined at the proposed Lapulapu Memorial Shrine and Museum in Mactan, Lapu-Lapu City.

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Competition

‘The Watch of Mactan’

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Elements of the monument