The UP Oblation has been reinstalled in front of the Main Building (Old Iloilo City Hall) with a fountain surrounding it. The Main Building designed by Juan Arellano in the 1930s has been restored and gloriously frames the statue that symbolizes the national university. UP Professor Emeritus Grace "Gigi" Alfonso designed the interactive pedestal for the Oblation.
Starting out its life as Iloilo’s City Hall, the neoclassic main building of the Iloilo City campus was designed by National Artist for Architecture Juan Arellano. His frequent collaborator, an Italian sculptor named Francesco Ricardo Monti, crafted the two bronze figures at the entrance named Law and Order.
In complete contrast to the cacophany outside its walls, the soundtrack inside the Iloilo City campus is composed of the wind tickling the leaves of the narra, acacia, mango, and mahogany trees and the constant chirping of the pied triller, golden bellied gerygone, olive backed sunbird, chestnut munia, and Eurasian tree sparrow.