SM Seaside City Cebu

This guide to SM Seaside City Cebu starts with the reclaimed land itself: three hundred hectares of fill dumped into the Mactan Channel starting in the late 1990s, financed by a Japanese loan, that sat empty for years before anyone built on it. It follows the engineers who broke ground here in 2011 and had to design for typhoon country on ground made of loose fill, and the choices that shaped the building's unusual form. Listen for what still lies beneath the floor you're standing on.