El Hogar Filipino Building Essay

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Heritage sites and building are now endangered of being destroyed because of the fast phase of our modern time, not just because of the fast phase of our modern time but mainly because of the greediness of the people. According to (Rubío, 2014) “It is our responsibility as citizens to preserve and take care of the built heritage our forefathers left. They may seem not significant to many, but they also have witnessed numerous triumphs and challenges the country experienced. They may be inanimate objects, but they also have its own character and its own story to tell. If these buildings could talk, we believe that they are pleading to us citizens right now to help save them”. Yes, it our responsibility to preserve this heritage building, it is our responsibility to protect our history. Because it is our gateway to our past this will remind us of how great, how sad, how happy our past is, whatever …show more content…

Every building has a story of its own. Specially the old one, because it reminds us of a particular era, this are our gateway to the past, and this building are meant to be preserve. The El Hogar Filipino Building tells as the stories of our past, from the American era, to the Philippine Commonwealth, the second Philippine Republic to the liberation of the city, and finally the countries’ independence in 1946. The El Hogar, it is known in Spanish as the Edificio El Hogar Filipino, it designed in the beaux-arts/neo-classical/renaissance styles of architecture it is a five-storey office building and the architect of the El Hogar Filipino Building is Don Ramón José de Irureta-Goyena Rodríguez. Located along Calle Muelle dela Industria by the Pasig River. It was built between the year 1911 and 1914, it said to be a wedding present to Doña Margarita Zóbel y de

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