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In Philippine architecture, the ventanilla is a small window or opening below a larger window's casement, created—often reaching the level of the floor—to allow either additional air into a room during hot days or some air during hot nights when the main window's panes are drawn. [1] [2] [3] It also allows for more light to strike the floor ...
The Rizal Shrine in Calamba is an example of bahay na bato.. Báhay na bató (Filipino for "stone house"), also known in Visayan languages as baláy na bató or balay nga bato, and in Spanish language as Casa de Filipina is a type of building originating during the Spanish colonial period of the Philippines.
The handbook aims to provide comprehensive information to house owners, designers, builders, and building monitors to teach principles of good design and construction in natural hazard-prone areas such as the Philippines.
The structure is the only remaining example of the French Renaissance architecture with Filipino stylized Beaux-Arts architecture in the Philippines to date. Other notable American Architects in the Philippines was William E. Parsons (a consulting architect trained by Daniel Burnham) who is known for the Manila Hotel, The Mansion, Baguio and ...
[1] [2] The two-story house combines the Colonial Plantation architecture and the American clapboard style that was popular in the Revivalist era of the American period. [3] In 1992, the family sold the house to an individual, who later sold it to the government of Silay. Eventually, it houses the Office of Culture, Arts and Tourism of the City ...
The Pascual House is a modernist style house built in April 1948, using a mixture of reinforced concrete, masonry and wood. A notable feature of the exterior are the three reinforced concrete pylons on the façade of the house. The mirador or watchtower is also a notable feature of the exterior that adorns the corner mass of the whole house.
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At the turn of 20th century, the Philippines was conquered by the United States from Spain, along with Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Guam.The American colonial government wanted to "modernize" the capital city of their newly acquired territory, and the mountain city of Baguio, which was designated as the summer capital.