The National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) could claim a moral victory in the Torre de Manila controversy when its power to issue cease-and-desist orders (CDO) in the name of heritage conservation was upheld by the courts.
Fr. Harold Rentoria, OSA, head of the Subcommission on Cultural Heritage of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts(NCCA),...
GERMAN Moreno called for the conservation of the Metropolitan Theater while actor Xian Lim proudly posed before a large fantasy...
Where has Jose Rizal gone? He's photobombing.
HERITAGE advocates want to topple it while the Supreme Court seeks to rule definitively on its legality (or illegality). Until...
NATIONAL Museum (NM) Director Jeremy Barns has criticized the Supreme Court for its handling of oral arguments during the Torre...
AN IMPORTANT advisory body to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco) has passed a resolution stating that...
THE INTERNATIONAL Committee on Monuments and Sites (Icomos) notes two examples from Turkey as the “most similar” to the Torre...
Torre de Manila was cleared for construction by the National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NHCP) and Manila City Hall despite being located in a virtual “heritage zone” and surrounded by several structures declared as national historical landmarks by government itself, for which, according to the NHCP’s own guidelines, they should be protected from “visual obstruction” and aesthetic “competition.”
Moreover, such landmarks, according to the NHCP guidelines, should be protected from such threats as “adjacent construction activities that may adversely affect historic sites/structures.”
Culture heritage activist Carlos Celdran does not want people to buy units at Torre de Manila, the one-tower condominium project of DMCI Homes under construction near City Hall.
