High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! This is a list of shopping malls in Metro Manila, Philippines. The first enclosed shopping mall in the metropolis was Crystal Arcade located along Escolta Street in the downtown district of Binondo. This art deco building designed by Andres Luna de San Pedro y Pardo de Tavera also housed the Manila Stock Exchange and was the Philippines` first air-conditioned building inaugurated on June 1, 1932. Prior to the Pacific War, Escolta Street was also home to the city`s first standalone department stores which opened in the 1920s and 1930s including the upscale La Puerta del Sol and Estrella del Norte. The first shopping mall of the enclosed, automobile-centered design type was Ali Mall in suburban Quezon City which opened in 1976. This was followed by Harrison Plaza in Malate district which opened later that same year.