Ten years after the enactment of Republic Act No. 10066 or the National Cultural Heritage Act of 2009, demolitions of the country’s cultural patrimony continue.
With its fast-changing landscape now dominated by skyscrapers and residential buildings, the district of Binondo in Manila has again lost...
Chair William “Butch” Ramirez of the Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) does not bother to hide his excitement about the planned...
The National Commission for Culture and Arts ordered the Department of Public Works and Highways, on Wednesday (March 18), to stop its road project in Sariaya, Quezon, that could affect several heritage structures in the locality.
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.
Not since the Jai Alai Building was bulldozed in 2000 has a demolition in Manila gotten as much attention. Just like the Jai Alai Building, the Meralco Head Office along San Marcelino is one of the finest Art Deco buildings ever built in the country.
Good intentions mark the passage of the National Cultural Heritage Act of 2009, but legal fester points abound. With not...
MANILA, Philippines—“We’re not out to get your property,” said Trixie Angeles, legal counsel of the National Commission for Culture and...
