Manufactured culture in San Fernando

The photo above was taken in the city of San Fernando, Trinidad. The building shown is the National Academy of the Performing Arts, South; it was built by the government of Trinidad and Tobago as a home for the development of talent in the performing arts with a main focus on the national instrument, the steel pan.
My intention was to show the presence of government influence of culture to the urban lifestyle. This building was designed to be the cultural icon of the south but is it really? or will it ever be?. This building was completed for months and it has rarely been used for its purpose. Will this building ever have the same cultural meaning to the urban people as the San Fernando hill?

This building is a representation of manufactured cultures in San Fernando as described by Hall and Barrett(2012,pg 168), they describe this concept as the manufacture and manipulation of culture for some external economic or social development. This may be done not only to promote culture that is seen as a good but it might be bound with the cultural economy of the city, part of its cultural policy or strategy whose aims are in part to boost the city's economy by visitor spend and perhaps to enhance its external percieved image.

The following link shows the government's economical aim of NAPA:
http://www.news.gov.tt/index.php?news=11758