The Architectural Heritage that being demolished in the Philippines

In 2001, the Manila Jai Alai Building was demolished by the city government to make way for a Hall of
Justice. In 2010,

In 2010, a real estate developer bought the ancestral house of the mother of Philippine national hero
Jose Rizal with the plan of relocating it to his resort in Bataan. The resort was actually a collection of
other houses he bought from different parts of the country in an effort to preserve them

The house of Teodora Alonso

The Insular Ice Plant and Company in Manila, among the first structures built by the Americans in
Manila, was demolished to give way for the Light Rail Transit line in the 1970s. Many stand-alone movie
theaters built in Manila after the war by reputed Filipino architects were either left to decay or used as
malls.

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Many government structures were also not spared. For example, in Pasig City the first provincial capitol
of Rizal, believed to be built in the 1920s, was left abandoned. Meanwhile, the second capitol was
demolished following the move of the provincial government to its new capital at Antipolo.

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another sad case, the Metropolitan Theater which

was destroyed in the Second World War was
reconstructed after the war. It was abandoned but
restored in the 1970s. Unfortunately, it has not been
used for many years and is slowly decaying.

In 1996, the demolition of the old Paco Train Station in Manila was cancelled when it was declared a
historical landmark. In 2008, the recently restored provincial capitol of Pangasinan was renovated by
the new governor, much to the dismay of heritage conservationists. In 2012, the old city hall of Agoo, La
Union which was then used as a museum was dramatically renovated to accommodate a branch of a
fastfood chain.