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.