Met theater: From ‘grand old dame’ to gross squalor
THE NATIONAL Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) conducted last Saturday the third and last clean-up drive for the Manila Metropolitan Theater (Met), and the activity afforded the media
THE NATIONAL Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) conducted last Saturday the third and last clean-up drive for the Manila Metropolitan Theater (Met), and the activity afforded the media
NOW LINED with a brilliant blue incandescence, Our Lady of Remedies Parish (also known as Malate Church) commands attention from afar come nighttime, its newly restored façade made even more
AS THE FIRST phase of the restoration of the historic Malate Church in Manila has ended, priests of the Society of St. Columban who have been administering the church since
The restoration of the Metropolitan (Met) Theater in Manila kicked off on Saturday with a clean-up drive led by volunteers and the Bureau of Fire Protection.
The controversial retrofitting and widening of the 200-year-old Dampol Bridge in Dupax del Sur, Nueva Vizcaya, will no longer push through after the Department of Public Works and Highways heeded
ERECTED in the early 1930s, razed by World War II, rehabilitated and restored in the late 1970s, and neglected once more in the late 1990s up to the present time,
The Met abides. Like a derelict old carnival queen, once the belle of the ball, now fallen on hard times and forced to live amid
One man’s dirt is another man’s patina. Quite often, what we have come to define as the “character” and “charm” of an old building is nothing more than
Renovations on the ceiling of the Tayabas church in Quezon province have caught the ire of local heritage advocates, who questioned the conservation approach employed by local church authorities.
The general sentiment is that Bohol churches devastated by the recent earthquake will rise again from the rubble, reconstructed faithfully, patiently, carefully rebuilt stone by stone, until each damaged structure returns to what it used to be.
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