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FLATIRON BLDG. AR. DANIEL BURNHAM , 1902 THE DISTINCTIVE TRIANGULAR SHAPE. OF THE FLAT - IRON BUILDING, DESIGNED BY CHICAGO ARCHITECT DANIEL BURNHAM AND BUILT IN 1902 ALLOWED IT 70 FILL THE WEDGE - SHAPED PROPERTY LOCATED AT THE INTERSECTION OF FIFTH AVENUE AND BROADWAY. THE EVILDING WAS INT “ENDED TO SERVE AS OFFICES FOR THE GEORGE A. RULE COMPANY, A MAJOR CONTRACTING FIRM. AT 22 STORIES £ 307 FEET, THE FLATIRON WAS NEVER THE CITY TALLEST BUILDING, BUT ALWAYS ONE OF ITS MOST DRAMATIC - LDOK ANG, AND ITS POPULARITY WITH PHOTOGRAPHERS AND ANT! “ST HAS MADE IT ENDURING SYMBOL OF NEW YORK FOR MORE THAN A CENTURY. THOUGH THE FLATIKON BUILDING IS OFTEN SAID 10 HAVE. FAMOUS NAME FROM ITS SIMILARITY TO A CERTAIN HOUS E-HOLD APPUANCE ,THE TRIANGULAR REGION CONTAINED Br DROADWAY FIFTH AVENUE AND 72rd AND 2ni ST. HAD INFACT BEED KNOWN AS THE “FLAT IRON" PRIOR 1D THE BUILDING'S CONSTRUCTION. BUILT AROUND A SKELETON OF STEEL THE FLATIRON BUIL. “DING |S FRONTED aH LIMESTONE AND TERRA - COTTA AND DESIGNED IN THI BEAUX -ARTS STYLE FEATURING FRENCH AND. ITALIAN TRENASEANCE INFLUENCES AND OTHER TRENDS seen AT 1899 MEASURES ONLY SIX FE -ET ACROES THE NARROW END. MALACANANG SA SUEBO FIR. WILLIAM E. FARSON , 1910 THE MALACAHANG SA SUGBO 19 ALSO REFFERED To AS MALACANANG OF THE SOUTH IS THE OFFICIAL OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES IN THE WH “OLE VISAYAS AND NAMED AFTER THE PRESIDENTIAL HOUSE. IN MANILA MALACANANG FALACE. IT's FOND AT PIGAFETTA ST, CEBU cry. BEFORE IT BECAME THE OFFICIAL RESIDENCY OF THE PHILIPPINE PRESIDENT THE BUILDING USED 10 BE CALLED THE ADUANA OF CUSTOMS BUILDING WHICH WA ORIGINALLY BUILT IN 1910. THE BUILDING WHICH WAS DESIGNED BY WILLIAM E. PARSON, HOUSED THE OFFICE OF CEP CITY'S BUREAU OF CUSTOMS. IT WAS THEN IN 2004 WHEN EX - PRESIDENT oe MACA PAGAL AnmOYO DECIDED To CONVERT THE BuILDIN INT CERU's VERY DAN MALACANANG, REGU TO_THE MOVING OUT OF THE BUREAU OF CUSTOMS OFFICE ANO TRANGEERRING TO THEIR PRESENT OFFICE NEAX THE FORT. NATL MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS AR. JUAN ARELLANO , 1926 THE NATIONAL MUDEUM OF FINE ARIS 15 AN, ART MUSEUM IN MANILA, PHILIPPINES THAT HOUSES A COLLECTION OF PAINTINGS AND SCULPTURES BY CLA “SICAL FILUIPING ARTISTS FOUNDED IN 1988 IT WAS FORMELLY KNOWN AS THE NATIONAL ART GALLERY, AND 1S OWNED AND OPERATED Dy THE NATIONAL M USEUM OF THE PHILIPPINES. IT IS LOCATED ON FAGRE BURGOS AVENUE ACROSS FROM THE NATIONAL MUSE. cUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY. 1S COLLECTION INCLUDES WORKS BY ARTISTS SUCH AS JUAN LUNA, FELIX RESURRECCIGN HIDALGO AND GUILLERMG TOLENT sINO- DICTATES OF PROPORTION SYMMETRY AND ORDER FROM THE TRABEATED ARCHITECTURAL INTERIORS. ATH ORNATE NEDCLASSICAL ENTADLATUNE ENRICH By We USE OF LocAL MOTIFS. THE INTERIORS EX cHIBIT THE SCULFTURAL WORK OF THE TAMPINC 705 ISABELD AND HIS CONS, ANGEL AND VIDALs} HICH ARTICULATES JUAN Arte.LAaN's DESIGN. | CREATIVE DUEeWe Mane Dict BITING BY THEN. CORPORATION OF NATIVE ELEMENTS. HILTON HOTEL FIR. ANTONIO TOLEDO , 1967 THE MANILA HILTON OPENED IIS DOORS IN 1953. IT LATER BECAME HOLIDAY INN FROM 1995 TO 72002. AFTER WHICH IT WAG AQUIRED BY THE GATCHALIANS' WATERFON PHILIPPINES AND TURNED INTO MANILA PAVILLION. ORETA ALSD CONSTRUCTED THE MANILA HILTON HOTEL IN 1967 - A COLLABORATIVE WORK BETWEEN ARGUELLES AND WELTON BECKETT. IT WAG AWESOME AT 22 STOREYS AND IT GNNED FAME AS THE TALLEST TOWER OF ITS TIME.THE ROOF TOOK THE FORM OF OUR NATIVE SALAKOT AND WAS CONSIDERED A COMPROMISE BETWEEN TRADITIONAL AND MODERN CAPABILITIES « THE HOTEL HAS SEEN MANY INCARNATIONS - THE LATEST. ONE DEIGN THE MANILA PAVILLION HOTEL. JUST THE YEAR 2018 THE BELEAGUERED HOTEL BATILED A RAGING FIRE - WHICH ONLY MEANS THAT THERE'S NO TIME LIKE THE PRESENT 1 REMEMBER HS FORMER GLORY AND TO DREAM IT FORWARD INTO THE NATIONS FUTURE. THE MAN| LA He yaeeoe MAJOR AFURDISHMENT ee BEING GOUGHT BY WATERFRONT WITH CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMELT BEING DONE TO MTS 400 ROOMS. STANDARD FEATURES t0d INCLUDE 40-INCH FLAT SCREEN LED TVs BATHROOMS WY A SEPARATE. SHOWERS. LA GOTA DE LECHE . ARCADIO ARELLANO , 194 AFTER THE PHILIPPINE - AMERICAN WAR IN 19027 A BERI- BER| (THIAMINE DEFICIENCY) EPIOEMIC INFECTED MOTHERS AND CONTAMINATED BREASTFEED MILA. THIS LED 1D HIGH MORTALITY RATE AMONG NEWBORN INFANTS. THE GOTA DE LECHE (DROP DF MIIK) NAS A PROJECT OF LA PRO TECLION DE LA INFANCIA ING A HUMANITARIAN ORGANIZATION WHO CAMPANGED AGAINST HIGH INFANT MORTALITY RATES. THE ORGANIZATION IS DEDICATED 10 PROVIDING NUTRITION AS “SISTANCE TG IMPOVERISHED CHILORED AS WELL AS PROM -DTING JHE HEALTH AND WELL-BEING DF MOTHERS AND CH cILDREN. THE FIRST BUILDING WAS INAUGURATED BY WILL tIAM HOWARD TAFT IN OCTOBOR OF 1907 IN EVANGELISTA, STREET (FORMERLY SAN PEDRO STREET), RUIAPO. THE NEN BUILDING WAS CONSTRUCTED IN 1915 IN SERGO H. LOOA STREET (FORMERLY LEPANTO STREET) IN SAMPALOC. COMPLETED IN 19/7,LA GOTA DE LETHE IS DESIGNED BY ND TTABLE, ARCHITECTS” ANO BROTHERS, ARCADIO AND JUAN ARELLANO TAKING INSPIRATION FROM THE OSPEDALE DEGU INNOCENT! (HOSPITAL OF THE INNOCENTS), AN ORPHANAGE CR TEATED BY RENOWNED ITALIAN ARCHITECT FILIFD ERUNEL fe IN [419 70 142% LOCATED IN FLORENEE, TAL. CENTRAL POST OFFICE AR. TOMAS MAPUA , 1926 THE MANILA CENTRAL POST OFFICE 16 THE HE TAD OFFICE OF THE FHIUIFTINE POSTAL CORPORATION. IT 1$ LOCATED ON THE BANK OF THE FASIG RIVER IN THE HISTORIC FORTIFIED PART OF THE PHIUPPINE. CAPITAL CMY. THE STRUCTURE NAS BUILT IN 1926 BUT SUF ERED SEVERE DAMAGES DURING THE SECOND HORWD WAN. ARCHITECT JUAN M. ARELLANO DESIGNED TT IN NEDCLACSICAL STYLE. THIS GRECO ROMAN STYLE BU TIMING IS A CLASSIC EXAMPLE OF WESTERN ARCHIE CGURE THAT EXSTED BETWEEN THE TWO WORLD WAS THANKFULLY THE EDIHCE WAS RESTORED 70 IIS OR ‘GINAL SPLENDOR AFTER THE WAR AND HAS INSPIF, 7ED LOCAL STUDENTS OF ARCHITECTURE AND THOSE AROUND THE WORLD WITH ITS IMMACULATE. DESIGN EVER SINCE. SERVI ne AS. a ae OFFICE OF THE COUNTINYS POSTAL OPERATI THIS FACIUTY HANDLES THE MAIL SORTING AND DISTRIBUTION OPERATIONS. JT ASO HOUSES THE FHILATELLIC SECTION. _REGINA BLDG. FR. ANDRES LUNA DE SAN PEDRO, I9I5 THE BUILDING WAS DESIGNED BY TNO ARCHITECTS, FERNANDO H. OCAMPO AND THE GREAT ANDRES LUNA DE SAN PEDRO. OCAMPO WAS CREDITED IN DESIGNING AND RENOVATING THE EXISTING CONCRETE BUILDING WHILE LUNA WAS THE ONE WHO DESIGNED THE BUILDING (NEW) FACING THE ESTERO AND PLAZA STA. CRUZ. ONE OF THE. TENANTS OF THE BUILDING WAS PACIFIC MOTORS, DEALER OF GENERAL MOTORS VEHICLES IN MANILA. IN 1934 THE NEW BUILDING WAS COMPLETED. DESIGNED IN A Mix NEO- CLASSICAL AND BEAUX - ARTS STYLES. BY ANDRES LUNA DE SAN PEDRO. THE NEW BUILDING ANNEXED THE OLD BUILDING FACING THE PASIG. THE BU “ILDING WAS RENAMED AS THE REGINA IN HONOR OF JOSE LEONCIO DE (EDN'S WIFE HEIKES REGINA JOVEN, GUTIERREZ HIZON DE. LEON. THE BUILDING BECAME THE OFFICES OF THE DE LEON BUSINESS OF PAMPANGA SUGAR DEVELOPMENT @. (PASUDECO) AND NATIONAL LIFE INSURANCE CO. THE FOST WARS YEARS SAW A NEW ERA FOR THE REGINA BUILDING. MOST OF THE DE LEON BXEINESSES WERE HO USED INTHE REGINA BUILDING AND IS S6TER PROPE CRTYsTHE NATIVIDAD BUILDING. TODAY, THE BUILDING IS STILL OWNED BY THE HEIRS OF DON JOSE LEDNCIO DE LEON OF THE PASUDECO WEALTH. : INC F. MANALO- SHN JUAN AR. JUAN NAKPIL , 1952 THE IGLESIA NI CRISTO LOCALE OF F. MANALO- SAN JUAN FORMERLY LOCALE OF RIVERSIDE 15 A CHAPEL AND FORMER CENTRAL OFFICE COMPLEX OF THE PHILIPPINE - BASED CHRISTIAN SECT IGLESIA NL GRISTO. LOCATED IN BARANGAY SANTA LUCIA, SAN JUAN sIT WAS COMPLETED IN 1952, AND IT 5 THE FORMER CENTRAL OFFICE @OMPLEX AND MAIN HOUSE OF MORSHIF OF THE CHURCH. THE ART DED ENGEMBIE WERE DESIGNED BY THE NATIONAL ARTIST OF ARCHIT SGURE JUAN WAKPIL LH) ALCO EXILT OF THE STANDALONE THESTHERS IN RIZAL AVENUE. ,UP DIL) “MAN CAMPUS BUILDING, AND QUIAFO CHURCH. JN EARLY 1950's MANALO HIRED ARCHITECT JUAN NAK oPIL 10 DESIGN THE MAIN HOUSE OF WoRSHIP CENTRAL OFFICE BUILDING ANO THE PASTORAL HOUSE WHICH BE -CAME. ene 1 sie AND HIS FAMILY. THE COMPGK FEATURES SCULPTURES BY FRANCISCO MONTI,LUSH GA ROENS AND LANDSCAPES AND A FUTURETIC WATER TANK.

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