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Casa Gorordo of Cebu, heritage icon (2pm 3/23/07)   Category: Villalon, Augusto F. (Pride of Place)
By Augusto VillalonPublished on page C1 of the September 25, 2006 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer.CASA GORORDO IN CEBU reopened recently after being closed for a y [...]
Pasig church conservation unites tradition and technology (2pm 3/23/07)   Category: Villalon, Augusto F. (Pride of Place)
By Augusto VillalonPublished on page D1 of the October 2, 2006 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer.MANY FILIPINOS HAVE BEEN around churches since childhood, attending [...]
By Augusto VillalonPublished on page C2 of the August 28, 2006 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer           &nb [...]
Those Gabaldons (2pm 3/23/07)   Category: Araneta, Gemma Cruz (Landscape)
By Gemma Cruz AranetaPUBLIC schools were to the American colonial regime what Baroque churches were to the Spanish period. In their time, both were the most imposing stru [...]
RP 61st state to join UN convention on heritage protection (2pm 3/23/07)   Category: Philippine Daily Inquirer
By Veronica UyPhilippine Daily InquirerTHE Philippines has become the 61st state party to the Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage of the Unite [...]
Lust for silver triumphs over Filipino heritage (2pm 3/23/07)   Category: Lim, Alfredo S.
By Sen. Alfredo S. LimThe brilliance of gold is dazzling and blinds the eyes of those who may gaze upon it. Indeed, it corrupts in much the same way as power, to which hi [...]
The arrogance of dimwits (2pm 3/23/07)   Category: Harper, Bambi L. (Sense and Sensibility)
By Bambi L. HarperMalaya, March 7, 2007This is really all thoroughly beyond me. Some weeks ago Joy de los Reyes of Malaya asked whether I knew about a structure that was [...]
Heritage movement restores schoolhouses nationwide (2pm 3/23/07)   Category: Villalon, Augusto F. (Pride of Place)
By Augusto F. VillalonInquirer News ServiceA PIONEERING partnership by the Department of Education (DepEd) and the Heritage Conservation Society (HCS) has been implementi [...]
Benchmarking Philippine architecture (2pm 3/23/07)   Category: Alcazaren, Paulo G. (City Sense)
By Paulo G. AlcazarenThe first year of the new millennium was a year of trauma, reflection and re-orientation for the Philippines and Philippine architecture. Little came [...]
by John L. SilvaIn the March 21, 2007 issue of the Philippine Inquirer, Metro section, the headline reads: NLEX billboards illegal, to go down next week–DPWH. Upon [...]
Monumental legacy (11am 3/19/07)   Category: Villalon, Augusto F. (Pride of Place)
By Augusto VillalonPhilippine Daily Inquirer, 03/19/2007MANILA, Philippines - The Manila Polo Club in Makati, a heritage structure completed in 1950 by National Artist Pa [...]
Ugly side of Tourism Authority revealed (1pm 3/18/07)   Category: Manila Times
By the case of a disapproved sports complex project that desecrates the Fort Santiago shrineManila Times, Sunday, March 18, 2007 By Katrice R. JalbuenaThe walls of Intram [...]
What is behind Barbers’ insistence on this project? (1pm 3/18/07)   Category: Manila Times
Manila Times, Sunday, March 18, 2007 Observers are wondering what is behind PTA General Manager Barbers’ insistence on building this sports complex.But no one can g [...]
Former PTA heads want Gen. Mgr. Barbers charged (1pm 3/18/07)   Category: Manila Times
Manila Times, Sunday, March 18, 2007On March 14, two former general managers of the Philippine Tourism Authority, Lito Banayo and Nixon Kua, called on Tourism Secretary J [...]
Intramuros a warehouse? (6pm 3/17/07)   Category: Araneta, Gemma Cruz (Landscape)
By Gemma Cruz AranetaLAST Tuesday, a good fifteen minutes before my radio program ("Krus na daan" DZRJ 810 khz) began, I decided to wait at the AM booth even if [...]
Ex-tourism chiefs protest Intramuros construction (6pm 3/17/07)   Category: Philippine Star
By Helen FloresThe Philippine Star 03/15/2007Former Philippine Tourism Authority general managers yesterday called on Tourism Secretary Joseph Ace Durano to file appropri [...]