Ciudad Amurallada: Intramuros de Manila

[Hawayano]

Originally Posted by wein16

Convent of Sto Domingo Church, Intramuros

Wow--I rarely get to see photos of the prewar Dominican convento. I can only imagine the unrecorded architectural details of that whole complex.

[Alitaptap]

Intramuros as shown in this 1965 Filipino Movie (Portrait of the Artist as a Filipino). In English but with Spanish subtitles.

[wein16]

Intramuros

[Hawayano]

good timing for the Manila Hotel centennial, considering the vantage point from where this photo was taken, Wein16!

[TheAvenger]

[sicnarf]

Originally Posted by TheAvenger

Ano yung nire-repair sa loob?

[tigidig14]

ung a/c...jk

[Wolfranz]

Originally Posted by sicnarf

Ano yung nire-repair sa loob?

Here's the answer:

http://lifestyle.inquirer.net/34839/...d-for-one-year

[newromanticism2005]

yung ceiling,etc...

[johnmizer]

talagang may info agad for donations

[TheAvenger]

I forget the name of this structure built during the Spanish era.










This is the Almacenes which is being reconstructed and the view is hidden
from public view. I managed to take photos from the gap in the fences.






The Almacenes being reconstructed.
















Puerta Isabel near Letran University.







Pls see the other photos in the thread : Manila.

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showth...9#post93336049



http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showth...9#post93336049

[reyvil888]

is the reconstruction of Almacenes still on-going ? looks like it was stopped, dami na kc damo.

[Sky Harbor]

Originally Posted by j01

... right now, I think only "Heritage Conservation Society" has the VOICE big enough to be heard,
as evidenced by its May2012 "Letter to Mayor Alfredo S. Lim re: City of Manila's continuous violations of Heritage Law":
http://www.facebook.com/notes/ivan-a...37909482888136

Uh, this is Mostar, not Sarajevo.

[wein16]

[wein16]

[wein16]

[wein16]

San Francisco

[noli-kun]

I love how they make low thick walls that don't do not stick out like a sore thumb but still delineates the property just like that in the picture. If only the destroyed churches of Intramuros get rebuilt in their original places. Wishful thinking.:ohno

[wein16]

Magallanes Monument & Aduana

[mean machine]

News on the transfer of informal settlers in Intramuros:

http://opinion.inquirer.net/35688/a-novel-ppp-effort

Policymakers and urban planners have long called for a long-term, comprehensive and innovative approach to this problem, and not mere palliatives. One such recent initiative deserves an earnest look: The Intramuros Administration and Gawad Kalinga have announced a program that would resettle the urban poor now squatting on private and public lands inside Intramuros. Over the next three years, some 3,400 families will be relocated outside of the historic, 64-hectare Walled City, first to a Gawad Kalinga village in Trece Martires, Cavite, on a piece of land donated by the Catholic Church. The community will be the first of three planned “Kalinga Intramuros” (KI) villages outside of Metro Manila.

The move aims to decongest Intramuros and allow, at last, its rehabilitation into the heritage and tourism jewel that it should have been but for the official neglect it has suffered through the decades. However, the joint Intramuros-GK project hopes to achieve this not by the usual ways of local governments—by casting the settlers out and leaving them twisting in the wind.

Notable are some thoughtful, carefully considered elements in the program: A shuttle service between Intramuros and the KI villages will bring workers to their daily jobs. Those who need to stay in the city on weekdays can bunk in a hostel that Gawad Kalinga is planning to build inside the Walled City. And a showroom selling products made by Gawad Kalinga beneficiaries to tourists and visitors will help augment the incomes of families and livelihood practitioners.

The KI villages will, in the beginning, be able to accommodate 100 families—a small number, but certainly a good enough start, and more importantly, one that offers a constructive and humane way out of the morass. If this program is successful, not only will it improve lives—and Intramuros, for that matter. It will also point the way for the kind of novel public-private partnership efforts that the government should encourage more of.