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Ateneo Municipál de Manila, Intramuros: A Jesuit school for boys.

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A glass palace in the middle of Madrid, built for the Philippines. Click the link to read more: https://sabayanmag.sslsvc.com/

In a parallel universe, with a Manila that never got destroyed in the war we take the tranvia from Intramuros through the neoclassical Jones Bridge, we get off at Plaza Lacson, Manila’s little Times Square... we head down for a stroll on a pedestrian-only Escolta. Lined with luxury shoppes, iconic Filipino brands, dine at high quality restaurants then grab some refreshments from ice cream parlours, like Clarke’s. We walk through Crystal Arcade that is now a city museum, then... walk past all the heritage-listed buildings. We head down to Muelle dela Industria, which is now a picturesque quay, where people relax at this waterfront park and see the El Hogar Filipinas, which is now also a gentrified building. We can catch a gondola, like Venice’s, down Estero de Binondo and get off at the station near Plaza Calderon de la Barca, where Manila’s Hotel de Oriente still operates as the most luxurious hotel in the city. Next to it is the La Insular, now a beautiful shopping arcade. We stop by at the well-preserved Church of Binondo then after a relaxing time listening to Kundiman buskers at the plaza, we take calesa ride from the plaza straight back to our accommodation at the Old Town district of Intramuros. A Manila with culture, with love for green outdoors, heritage. A city full of history and harmony. A wishful thinking that could’ve been our reality. @hyperzombie Follow us on instagram @filipinasnostalgia

"If only there was a way that we can travel back in time and see Manila in all its beauty..." Renacimiento Manila is currently planning and making several 3D mo...dels of Manila. These models include Spanish period Intramuros (1863), Prewar Intramuros and Prewar Downtown Manila (Escolta - Binondo - Avenida), and the Renacimiento Vision Model which is a glimpse into a Manila that could be. We are also exploring ways by which people could "walk" and explore the models. Bringing to life a Manila that we've seen in pictures and videos. Watch the full walk through video in our Youtube channel by following the link below. While you're there, feel free to subscribe to our channel! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dxb1wVBxdM With your patronage and support, Renacimiento Manila would be able to continue this digital model project. #RebirthManila

Tranvia Electric Streetcar remnants after the Battle of Manila. March 20, 1945. Manila Hotel is out of the picture to the left, Legazpi-Urdaneta Monument to the... right. During the Japanese occupation as the tranvia cars broke down they were parked lined up together. There were no repair parts available to get them going. This picture is a month after the Battle for Manila showing the war damage to the cars. The tranvia served as the first railway transport to run in the Philippines, inaugurated on April 5, 1905. Owned and operated by the Manila Electric Company (Meralco today), the Tranvia was left to a state of beyond economical repair. The tracks has since been dismantled, the remaining fleet scrapped, and the transport system within the metro shifted to automobile dependence and jeepneys. - simoun Colorization by Jay Jay Arenas. image: Photographer: Tec. 4 R. Wendlinger US Signal Corp photo, US National Archives via John Tewell

Army Navy Club (1909), Manila William Parsons Dubbed as the most important construction of 1909 in the city of the Manila, the Army Navy Club was one of Parson...s private commissions. Burnham’s plan had zoned an area for a small boat club, a casino, and public baths on a 100 m by 200 m space opposite the hotel across the Luneta Extension. The site would be occupied by the building of the Army and Navy Club with a price tag of 300,000 pesos. The plan provided for three buildings composed of the club proper, a dancing hall, and a separate structure for kitchen and servants’ quarter, following the general outline of the letter H. Made of reinforced concrete utilizing the Kahn System, the building had a flat roof, which Parsons avoided in his later works as he got acquainted with the torrential rains of the tropical colony. High ceilings for maximized ventilation, a series of large windows spanning from column to column, an imposing arched entrance, deep loggias that surround the building were some of the architectural features that were to comprise Parsons’ architectural idiom in his succeeding projects. See more

SAVE SAN SEBASTIAN CHURCH! SAVE MANILA HERITAGE! "...While the pandemic wreaks havoc across the land, a plague of heritage destruction has also infected the ci...ty of Manila with heritage structures such as the PhilAm Life Building, Sunico Foundry, and Paco Public Market being the latest casualties. And now, San Sebastian Basilica’s neighborhood and the basilica itself are at risk of being the next victims of cultural vandalism." Text and moral grounds here >> http://bit.ly/RM-SaveSSB #SaveSSBasilica #notosansebastiancondo #savemanilaheritage #savesansebastian We are Renacimiento Manila, ushering for a cultural rebirth of the Pearl of the Orient. #RebirthManila Isko Moreno Domagoso National Commission for Culture and the Arts National Historical Commission of the Philippines San Sebastian Basilica Conservation and Development Foundation, Inc.

A Filipino theatrical troupe, circa 1910s

WHO IS REALLY PROTECTING OUR BUILT HERITAGE? Another important Binondo landmark is silently being removed to make way for a real estate development. The histori...c house will be relocated in Bataan with the explicit endorsement of the cultural agencies! There is nothing but silence in the heritage fronts as the pandemic provide the perfect cloak for the heritage terrorist to take action. The House and Foundry of Hilario Sunico Chanuangco. As the former home of one of the Philippines’ foremost metalworks companies, the Sunico House and Foundry in Binondo, Manila stands as a testament to one of the most prominent industrial enterprises, which played a significant role in the economic, religious, and revolutionary history of Binondo and the country. In the 1858 census of Binondo, ten Chinese foundries were reported to be located in Calle San Fernando in the barrio of San Nicolas in Binondo district. It was not specific though if these foundries solely produced bells or grillwork since cannon-making was also the metalsmith’s work. One of the famous 19th century bell makers was the Fundicion de Hilario Sunico, owned by Hilario Sunico Chanuangco (1847-1918), who was also a Gobernadorcillo de Chinos or Capitan Chino, and paternal grandfather of philanthropist Conchita Sunico. Hilario worked for his father’s foundry enterprise Chanuangco e Hijos, until he inherited the business and established it under his own name. His foundry produced bells for different churches in the Philippines including Binondo Church, the Agaña Cathedral in Guam, and the Cemetery Chapel of Dilao, the grillworks in the Tutuban Station, and ship parts and cannons. The foundry was later renamed after Sunico and his brothers who joined him in the business. After his death, the business was later managed by Valentin Sunico, his nephew, who was married to Josephine Bracken’s sister Georgina Taufer. The house which sheltered the foundry in Binondo was sold later to Leon Miguel Heras. The foundry was instrumental in the Philippine Revolution, as it was where General Jose Ignacio Paua, the only full-blooded Chinese general in the Katipunan, apprenticed and learned the art of forging weaponry. This skill proved essential in the Revolution against Spain and later the United States, as General Paua led the establishment of a foundry and arsenal in Imus, Cavite for creating the necessary armaments. This was where cannons called lantakas, and mausers seized from the enemy were repaired; and guns, bullets, and other munitions were created using metals from different sources, even from church bellswith the help of fellow Chinese blacksmiths and Filipinos who were trained there for the endeavor. Perhaps, the Sunico Foundry may have also furnished some of the cannons used during the Revolution. Archival records indicate that Hilario Sunico had a house located in the corner of Lara and Barcelona Streets, with a corner chaflan or chamfered corner facade as dictated then by planning decrees, and quaint windows with pot-bellied grillwork. The foundry was located along the same block of Calle Barcelona corner Calle Jaboneros. Presented here are the 1891 floor plans, elevations and section of Hilario Sunico's house in Lara corner Barcelona Streets and the plan and section of his foundry in Calle Jaboneros. The current structure still possesses a significant amount of its metalwork grills and eave brackets, bearing the signature Estilo Sunico delicate, florid metalwork. The house that sheltered Sunico’s foundry has been sold and is now under threat of demolition and relocation to a resort in Bagac, Bataan, amid objections from the community, most especially by the descendants of Hilario Sunico. The seeming complicity of government cultural agencies with the relocation of the house paints a grim picture for the district once more losing another facet of its historical fabric, and an uncertain future for the structure. Archival plans courtesy of the National Archives of the Philippines

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Manila, 1920s

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San Francisco Church, Intramuros The San Francisco Church is a defunct church along San Francisco and Solana Streets in the walled city of Intramuros, Manila, Philippines. The church, which used to be the center of the Franciscan missions in the Philippines, was destroyed during the Second World War. Demolished in 1945.