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The Good Building Design and Construction in the Philippines is a handbook developed in cooperation with the German Technical Cooperation (GTZ), UNDP Regional Center in Bangkok, and the Secretariat of the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction. [1]
Snippet of the Google Street View, showing the house under construction, 2014. Originally named as the "Quezon City Executive House" [1] meant to serve as an official residence of the Mayor of Quezon City and host foreign dignitaries and other guests of the local government, work on the property formally broke ground on April 5, 2013, and covered two stages.
The Bahay Pangulo's original structure was built in the 1930s by the Bureau of Public Works and was designed by architect Juan Arellano and Antonio M. Toledo. [2] [3] [1] It was originally built as a rest house of the Malacañang Park for informal activities and social functions of the president.
Bahay kubo, a type of stilt house indigenous to the Philippines especially in rural areas. Developed by the exchange of ideas within different ethnic groups of the christian lowland Filipino population from ancestral knowledge originated from the prehispanic Austronesian architecture , it integrated with the new Christianized lifestyle of ...
A closed ventanilla below a capiz shell main window.. 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.
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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.
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