Philippine National Heritage Watch

[Parchie]

Originally Posted by j01

legality or illegality of Torre de Manila:

Let's stop the debate on Legality because laws can be amended anytime.
Let's start a discussion on what is Public Right.

Yeah, that's why I was asking some about who will shoulder the costs related to your assertion that it is a public right not to have the a structure near the heritage site. It has nothing to do with legality, it's about people's rights: one --> the public's right to an unobstructed view of the monuments versus the property owner's right to profit from his/her activities on said property!

[joks_25]

I never knew we have these preserved town, specially in this part of mindanao. i'm quite amaze
Jimenez Misamis Occidental

by Vince Putis-Malon Millante

[ark]

I'll just share some of Iloilo's heritage buildings/structures


Casa Real de Iloilo (Old Provincial Capitol) Restoration
The new Provincial Capitol is at the background

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One of the restored buildings in Iloilo's Calle Real
Currently the city government is restoring the old buildings of JM Basa Street (Calle Real)
Most of the buildings date back to the American period

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Aduana de Iloilo (Customs House)

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Molo Church and Plaza, Iloilo City

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Jaro Cathedral and Belfry (detached, across the cathedral, at the plaza), Iloilo City

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St. Clement's Church (Redemptorist Church), Iloilo City

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Carpenter Bridge (Taytay Parian), Iloilo City

[j01]

Philippine History...

Originally Posted by the glimpser

Good news on some heritage structures in Manila.There's hope after all.

Old Senate Session Hall restored to prewar glory


THE RESTORATION, funded mainly by Pagcor, costs P20 million. CHITO VECINA

Hope for heritage: Quiapo resident renovates Hidalgo house into art gallery


UNADORNED posts, clean lines and organic shapes on the grills depict geometric style of the Padilla ancestral home.

[j01]

In Dresden, they turned their ruins into hotels.

We can learn from them.

I prefer to stay in hotels with history, than some business hotels with no story to tell.

Originally Posted by White Light

1990 and 2004

After the war


image hosted on flickr


And now
<deleted - picture of restored Hotel>

[mahadlikha]

reposted here:

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showth...399351&page=11

[red_jasper]

The tragedy of Bahay Alberto
BY PIA RANADA
Posted on 11/03/2012 4:24 PM | Updated 11/05/2012 11:47 AM

FALLING APART. Alberto House as of October 22, 2012 with three-fourths of its roof caved in. Photo by BJ Borja

In the 1800s, it was hard to miss the Alberto mansion in Biñan, Laguna.

Aside from being large and stately, it stood right beside the town plaza which tells everyone who listened to his or her Philippine history class that the Albertos were a prominent family.

For sure, they were wealthy; but as the decades rolled on, they became prominent in a different way.

The Albertos count national hero Dr Jose Rizal among their progeny and no less than his mother, Teodora Alonso, grew up in the Alberto house.

Rizal himself spent a year of his youth in the ancient bahay na bato while studying at a nearby private school.

Fast forward to today and the mansion is still hard to miss.

This, however, is not due to its stateliness and grandeur.

The roof has all but completely caved in, exposing its gutted insides to the cruel elements. Below lies an avalanche of wood and metal totally laying waste to rooms where Rizal may have slept, studied or eaten a hearty breakfast.

The once gorgeous ventanillas hang precariously by rusty hinges, some lie shattered on the ground below amidst broken pieces of capiz. In truth, the house can come crashing down any moment due to its decayed foundations.

A monument of our national history, a relic from our hero’s past is now an eyesore.


Desperate owner

In 2011, the Biñan local government pulled together P20-M supposedly to expropriate the house so that restoration efforts could begin.

But this came to nothing because of the lack of response from Gerardo Alberto, owner of the mansion.

Yet Alberto has just sold the house to real estate developer Jose “Jerry” Acuzar, owner of New San Jose Builders. It was Acuzar’s company who gutted the Bahay Alberto, taking its original wooden planks, doors and stairs to his resort in Bagac, Bataan.

Those who can afford the steep room rates in the Las Casas Filipinas de Acuzar Heritage Resort get to spend a night in glorious replicas of Spanish-period mansions.

But the “replicas” are more than that.

They are, in fact, the real houses themselves, transplanted from their original locations in Escolta, Binondo, Pampanga, Nueva Ecija and Bulacan, among others.

It is said that the Alberto house is set to be the newest addition to this collection; so while the original house languishes in Biñan to the dismay of locals who have considered it a local landmark, its spruced up clone in Bataan will house the wealthy.


Wrong idea of restoration

Jerry Acuzar has incurred the wrath of many heritage advocates who condemn his version of “restoration.”

Read full story here

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Iloilo City
This antique chimney was relocated and made into a monument/focal point and as a rotunda of a new commercial complex.

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University of San Agustin, Iloilo City
The oldest university in Western Visayas

[j01]

Originally Posted by jcdak

90-year-old Binondo building to be turned into call center
By Erika Sauler
Philippine Daily Inquirer
3:17 am | Monday, November 26th, 2012

MANILA, Philipines—A 90-year-old building in Binondo, Manila, is set to house call center locators with the prospect of starting the ball rolling for the revival of the historic Escolta commercial district.

The heritage building where the First National City Bank used to be is being restored and will be open for marketing as Juan Luna e-Services Building in a couple of months.

the rest of the article can be viewed here:
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/313009/...to-call-center

Binondo district in Manila: Rife for redevelopment PHOTO BY RICK ALBERTO (Philippine Daily Inquirer)

[Kim Bol Jon]

Vista del Volcan de Albay y la Yglesia de Oas
(View of the Volcano in Albay and the Church of Oas)



This watercolor painting is part of an album entitled 'Vistas de las islas Filipinas y trajes de sus habitantes' by José Honorato Lozano, published in 1847.

Source: Biblioteca Nacional de España

[j01]

Party for heritage city.

Originally Posted by j01

Grand ball to raise funds for Intramuros renovation

http://lifestyle.inquirer.net/83697/...ros-renovation

Last year’s ball raised funds for the poor communities of Sulu.
The 2013 GK Hope Ball will help raise money for the rehabilitation of Intramuros, the Old Walled City.

“Intramuros is truly the soul of our people, and yet here, we have informal settlers who are living under subhuman conditions,” said Gawad Kalinga founder Tony Meloto at the GK Hope Ball press launch. “This is a poor reflection of our soul as a nation.”

Moi found out that working together with the Intramuros Administration, Gawad Kalinga began the Kalinga Intramuros campaign, with the goal of restoring the radiance of the Walled City by relocating families to a GK Village in Trece Martires; the village will be funded by the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines, to be built on a piece of land donated by the Cityland Development Corp.

“Ultimately, the campaign aims to generate enough support to transform the slums of Intramuros into beautiful and sustainable villages, provide the relocated families with sustainable means of living, and reestablish the old capital as a center of business and great culture,” said Amor Maclang.

[j01]

posting here:

Originally Posted by j01

The economics of heritage
By Jasmine T. Cruz
Posted on 05:31 PM, December 27, 2012
bworldonline

http://www.bworldonline.com/weekende...t.php?id=63464

TO PRESERVE heritage sites for the next generation, one can&rsquo;t just passively admire these structures -- then helplessly protest whenever one is bulldozed into oblivion. Heritage advocates have to be proactive in taking concrete steps to save these culturally significant structures. Thus, knowing the pragmatic costs of preservation is critical, and this is what the Economics of Heritage Summit focused on when it was held in Batangas City in November.

Organized by the Heritage Conservation Society, a non-profit organization devoted to preserving cultural and historical sites in the Philippines, the summit tackled financial incentives and working business models that can help heritage investors to actualize their dreams of protecting historical sites.

INCENTIVES FOR PRESERVATION
Mark Evidente, president of the tourism development consultancy TwoEco, Inc. and the lead drafter of the Tourism Act of 2009, talked about how the bill can be applied by those who want to turn heritage sites into profitable tourist destinations. Although the law is three years old, he said, only a few players in the tourism industry have understood its provisions.

Also known as Republic Act No. 9593, the law gives tax and other financial incentives to those who invest in tourism zones-- and one way of attracting tourists is to preserve and invest in the local culture.

These incentives are: a six-year income tax holiday -- and after the six years, investors then are charged a 5% gross income tax rate which is lower than the regular 32% on net income, 100% off on duties and taxes on importation of capital and raw materials, a 100% tax credit on locally sourced raw materials, and a 50% tax credit on preservation work and corporate social responsibility projects.
&ldquo;Investment in heritage can pay for itself down the line,&rdquo; said Mr. Evidente.
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[wanimeni]

I'm new to these pages, and the first thing I like to do is thank you for your commendable work by the amazing and abundant information you offer everyone about all kinds of topics.

Took a few months gathering information about Manila and the Philippines due to a family heirloom that has become my quest on a great adventure.

I found among the old pictures of my family a couple of paintings attributed to the brilliant Luna. Such has been the surprise that I'm hooked on the artist's work and I've even created a web page as a tribute. Unfortunately, I think there are no really good sources to find the old master´s works on the web and any effort would be appreciated.

Anyway, fact missing from the web, information about character, and books with all the tremendous work of the author are unattainable, especially to try to see if works are cataloged.

I think it's interesting book Santiago Albano Pilar, The Filipino As Painter.

I thank God for having found the destination, and I send greetings to all.