Bahay-Na-Bato Archives | Lifestyle.INQ

How Taal ‘bahay-na-bato’ is made to live into 2020 and beyond

While heritage towns and cities are now being identified and designated for protection and preservation, historic overlay codes and regulations are still overruled by individual

Why Batangas has more stories to tell

Despite its numerous beaches and other attractions, Batangas isn’t as popular a tourist destination among today’s youth as it was in previous generations.

Looking back on our ‘bahay-na-bato’–in Nick Joaquin’s ‘Portrait of the Artist’

My earliest fascination with and exposure to the ilustrado lifestyle and bahay-na-bato architecture and interior design were from summers spent in the ancestral Santos Joven-Panlilio
house of my paternal grandparents in Bacolor, Pampanga.

Educators, planners feted by top insurance firm

Championing hard work and discipline, Fortune Life gave out this year’s edition of the Ambassador Antonio Cabangon Chua Gintong Parangal para sa Edukasyon.

TOP: “Pabalat,” folk art of cutting paper to use as wrapper for “pastillas de leche.” Above: “Inukit,” fruit carving using “dayap” which is sweetened—as demonstrated by Naty Ocampo Castro, who learned the skill from her mother, Luz Ocampo

‘Tinola’ for Rizal, ‘nilitsong manok sa saha’ for Bonifacio–our heroes’ favorite food

Café Maloleño in Bulacan recreates the dishes our founding fathers feasted on

The ‘bahay-na-bato’ goes global

For the first time, a Filipino is on the shortlist of this year’s World Architectural Festival (WAF), the world’s largest annual gathering of architects and interior designers.

House of childhood memories

The Bahay-Na-Bato that we lived in during my childhood (1930-1943) was not the romantic and gracious queen of the antique books. Constructed in the late 1800s, by the time we got to live in it, the house was already shabby and old, with peeling paint. Someone said my grandfather on mama’s side had sold it to my daddy for a song when he married my mother.