Experience National Artist for Architecture Pablo Antonio’s home
The sunbean falls across the pond, touching the surface until it sparkles like metal. The gentle ripples then cast a pattern of moving silhouettes on the corner of the living room.
The sunbean falls across the pond, touching the surface until it sparkles like metal. The gentle ripples then cast a pattern of moving silhouettes on the corner of the living room.
With heartbreak of the Jai Alai building’s demolition a decade ago still fresh in their minds, heritage conservationists are hoping that the Philippines would finally take on the global wave of adaptive reuse of old buildings and houses, instead of leaving them to the mercy of the wrecking ball.
The Heritage Conservation Society (HCS) Summit 2013 will be held in Quezon City on Nov. 9. Theme is “Heritage and Real Estate Development.” Objective is to discuss the current state of heritage preservation and the best practices of adaptive reuse in the Philippines and Asia.
“It’s like making a copy of an Amorsolo [painting] and then destroying the original Amorsolo,” a heritage conservationist described the fate of “The Furies” of Italian sculptor Francesco Riccardo Monti.
First it was the jai alai aficionados who cried foul after the sport was first banned in the Philippines in 1986 amid allegations of game-fixing. With the game gone, the building was foreseen to be the next casualty.
It’s countdown time for Escuela Taller de Intramuros, which exhibits its students’ work until June 30 at the Lobby of Greenbelt 3, Ayala Center, Makati. Exhibition partners are the Heritage
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