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    The document summarizes key details about The Coconut Palace building in the Philippines. It was designed by renowned Filipino architect Bobby Mañosa. The palace earned its name because it extensively features coconut lumber and parts in its construction, including a roof made of coconut wood shingles, columns made from inverted coconut trunks, coconut wood parquetry floors, coconut fiber carpets, and a massive chandelier and dining table featuring over 40,000 coconut shells.

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    The document summarizes key details about The Coconut Palace building in the Philippines. It was designed by renowned Filipino architect Bobby Mañosa. The palace earned its name because it extensively features coconut lumber and parts in its construction, including a roof made of coconut wood shingles, columns made from inverted coconut trunks, coconut wood parquetry floors, coconut fiber carpets, and a massive chandelier and dining table featuring over 40,000 coconut shells.

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    The document summarizes key details about The Coconut Palace building in the Philippines. It was designed by renowned Filipino architect Bobby Mañosa. The palace earned its name because it extensively features coconut lumber and parts in its construction, including a roof made of coconut wood shingles, columns made from inverted coconut trunks, coconut wood parquetry floors, coconut fiber carpets, and a massive chandelier and dining table featuring over 40,000 coconut shells.

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    UNIVERSITY OF THE CORDILLERAS THE COCONUT PALACE

    DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE The Coconut Palace was designed by


    Filipino Architect and National Artis, Francisco
    AR 323 “Bobby” Mañosa. The building is called Coconut
    HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE 4 Palace, or Tahanang Pilipino, because of the
    MTH 5:30-7:30PM extensive use of coconut lumber and various
    parts of the coconut tree in its construction. The
    STUDENTS: AQUINO, SHIENA LYN roof is made from coconut wood shingles, while
    the columns are inverted coconut trunks, with
    BIBAT, ALLYSON
    their distinctive bulge at the root end forming
    CAROLINO, JANE
    the capitals. Coconut wood parquetry covers
    FERNANDEZ, DARLENE
    the floors, carpets are made of coconut fiber
    RAYMUNDO, JENNIFER and wallpaper from the fibrous sheath. The
    SOTELO, LOVELYN massive chandelier made from 101 coconut
    shells is worth seeing, and so is the dining table
    INSTRUCTOR: ARCH. ROBERT V. ROMERO of 40,000 tiny pieces of inlaid coconut shells.

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