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Asia Pacific Heritage Award for Cultural Heritage Award
PABLO ANTONIO
Asia Pacific Heritage Award for Cultural Heritage award
The Ideal Theater was located at Rizal Avenue in Manila and designed by the late Architect Pablo Antonio in 1933. The theater was demolished in the late 1970s to give way to the construction of a department store. The Ideal Theater was one of the first major works of Pablo Antonio along with the buildings of Far Eastern University and Manila Polo Club.
Life Theater can also be found along Quezon Boulevard in Quiapo Manila. It was constructed in 1950s and designed by National Artist Pablo Antonio who also designed the Ideal Theater in Avenida. This art deco theater had a maximum capacity of 800 people
ANGEL NAKPIL
One of the first earthquake-proof buildings in the country.
International Style architecture by Harvard trained Filipino Architect Angel Nakpil. Built in the mid 1950s.
JUAN ARELLANO
The Manila Metropolitan Theater or MET is an art deco building designed by the Filipino architect Juan M. Arellano, and inaugurated on December 10, 1931, with a capacity of 1670 (846 orchestra, 116 in loge, and 708 in balcony). During the liberation of Manila by the United States and Filipino forces in 1945, the theatre was severely damaged, losing some of its roofing and walls battered. After reconstruction by the Americans it gradually fell into disuse in the 1960s. In the following decade it was meticulously restored in 1978 but again fell into decay.
The Old Congress Building (also known as the Old Legislative Building) is a building located on Padre Burgos Avenue, Manila, Philippines. It is currently home of the National Art Gallery of the National Museum of the Philippines. From 1926 to 1972, and again from 1987 to 1997, the building was home to various legislative bodies of the Philippine government.

The Manila Central Post Office is the head office of the Philippine Postal Corporation, and houses the country's main mail sorting-distribution operations. It is located in the Intramuros district of the city, at the bank of the Pasig River. The building's main entrance faces the Liwasang Bonifacio.
LOCSIN
The Cultural Center of the Philippines (Filipino: Sentrong Pangkultura ng Pilipinas) or simply the CCP is located in Pasay City and the City of Manila, Metro Manila, the Philippines, and was opened in 1969 to promote and preserve Filipino arts and culture, and to become a mecca of culture and the arts in Asia. Since its opening, it has showcased the Bolshoi, Kirov, Royal Danish ballets, as well as contemporary American, French, German, and Philippine companies.
The Folk Arts Theater is also known as the Tanghalang Francisco Balagtas
Ayala Museum is an art and history museum located at the corner of Makati Avenue and De la Rosa Street in Makati City, Metro Manila, the Philippines. It is considered one of the most important private institutions of Philippine art and culture.
CONCIO
The National Shrine of our Mother of Perpetual Help, also called the Redemptorist Church or most commonly the Baclaran Church, is considered as the most visited church in Asia. It is located in Barangay Baclaran in Parañaque City in the Philippines.
The Church of the Risen Lord is a Protestant church located at the University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City. It arose about 50 years ago through a Protestant student group named the Christian Youth Movement (CYM).
Palma Hall, popularly known as AS (Arts and Sciences), or LA (Liberal Arts) for some in the past, has been the home of the College of Social Sciences and Philosophy since 1983. Its name is derived from then-Senator Rafael Palma, the fourth (and first Filipino) president of the University of the Philippines from 1925 to 1933.
MENDOZA
Headquarters of the House of Representatives
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the LDS Church or, colloquially, the Mormon Church) is the largest denomination in the Latter Day Saint movement, a Christian primitivist movement that was started by Joseph Smith during the Second Great Awakening.
FORMOSO
The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP, translated as Central Bank of the Philippines) is the central bank of the Republic of the Philippines. It was rechartered on July 3, 1993, pursuant to the provisions of the 1987 Philippine Constitution and the New Central Bank Act of 1993. The BSP was established on January 3, 1949, as the country’s central monetary authority.
The Asian Institute of Management AIM is a graduate school of business and a center of business and management research. It is one of the few business schools in Asia to be internationally accredited with the AACSB. It was established in partnership with Harvard Business School[1] and uses the Harvard Business School case study teaching methodology. It was described by Asiaweek magazine (a TIME publication) as the best in the Asia-Pacific region in terms of executive education.[2
The Philippine Bank of Communications Tower, more commonly known as PBCom Tower, is an office skyscraper that currently holds the title, since 2000, of the tallest building in the Philippines. It has a total ground to architectural top height of 259 metres (850 ft), with 52 storeys [8] including an 8-level radio tower.
RAMOS
The Philippine Heart Center in Quezon City was established through Presidential Decree No. 673 issued by president Ferdinand E. Marcos in 1975. Its original name was the Philippine Heart Center for Asia and was changed to its current form in 1975.
DE CASTRO
The arc-shaped nuclear laboratory building was the first nuclear research laboratory in the philippines and served as an ancillary structure of the Nuclear Research Reactor Building of the Philippine Atomic Energy Commission. The site of the nuclear laboratory was selected on the basis of data gathered by geologists and environmentalists and was scientifically studied to protect the people and immediate environment from the hazards of air and water pollution that could result from radio-active waste spilling or fallout.
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is a regional development bank established on 22 August 1966 to facilitate economic development of countries in Asia.[2] The bank admits the members of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP, formerly known as the United Nations Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East) and non-regional developed countries.[
MANOSA
Also known as Tahanang Pilipino, the Coconut Palace is the official residence and principal workplace of the Vice President of the Philippines and is located at the CCP Complex, in Pasay City. The Coconut Palace, built in 1978, was commissioned by former first lady Imelda Marcos. It is made of several types of Philippine hardwood, coconut shells, and a specially engineered coconut lumber apparently known as Imelda Madera. Each of the suites on the second floor is named after a specific region of the Philippines and displays some of the handicrafts these regions produce.
Corporate headquarters of the San Miguel Corporation, one of the largest companies in the Philippines. Known for having the most frequent daily helicopter landings in the Philippines.
VIOLA
The Iglesia Ni Cristo Central Office is located on Commonwealth Ave., Diliman Quezon City, Philippines. It is a large complex which includes a chapel, hospital, the New Era high school and college, as well as the head offices of the Iglesia Ni Cristo. the Iglesia ni Cristo does not call this a cathedral but a temple... The Iglesia ni Cristo Central Temple to be specific. The word "cathedral" originated from Latin "cathedra" or English "chair". Literally it means the place where the bishop's throne is located. The Central Temple was finished in 1984 and dedicated to coincide with the Church's 70th anniversary celebration.
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