RECENTLY HERITAGE structures were among those condemned by DPWH Western Visayas because of apparent failure to meet Building Code seismic requirements. DPWH Secretary Singson responded, “If designated as cultural heritage structures, they should be preserved, provided they do not endanger lives....
RECENTLY HERITAGE structures were among those condemned by DPWH Western Visayas because of apparent failure to meet Building Code seismic requirements. DPWH Secretary Singson responded, “If designated as cultural heritage structures, they should be preserved, provided they do not endanger lives....
SO ENCOURAGING is the swiftness of national authorities to take a second, close look at Philippine buildings in the wake of the devastation caused by the recent disaster in Japan, reassessing existing structures to determine how they will stand up to the next earthquake. Unofficial reports have...
GUS (AUGUSTO) Albor creates cerebral abstractions. He layers and overlaps color on his canvases with effortless accuracy, achieving gossamer transparency which takes his work beyond the material. “Immaterial” is his aptly titled and long-overdue book that illustrates his four-decade journey of...
THE IDEA of giving back Cebu’s Main Street, commendable as it is, must go beyond face-lifting, which is the most obvious and easiest part of the equation to achieve. But the question must be asked: Will it last? Making sure that the restored Jones Avenue (now Osmeña Boulevard) lasts brings us to...
IT’S A GOOD beginning, one that tells of better things to come. Mayor Michael Rama of Cebu, a staunch heritage advocate, has asked prominent Cebuana philanthropist Mariquita Salimbangon Yeung to chair a campaign to beautify the city.
WHAT I REMEMBERED seeing on a trip to Riyadh 30 years ago I saw again this time around, a black and white world of women fully cloaked in black abayas from head to foot and men in floor-length white thoubs with heads veiled in white or red-checked gutras. Nor had the landscape changed that much. ...
SET TO BE INAUGURATED THIS WEEK IS the newly conserved Kugita Elementary School, a landmark Gabaldon-type schoolhouse on Camiguin. What makes the inauguration significant is that the conservation was a joint effort of the Philippines and Australia, signaling for the first time foreign interest in...
