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  2. Automated Guideway Transit System project (Philippines)

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    The AGT 30, can carry 30 passenger per coach and has two passenger sections with safety features. It also has a communication and automated fare collection system. The prototype has two coaches with full airconditioning and has a suspension system, solid tires for guide wheels and extra wide automatic sliding doors.

  3. Bahay na bato - Wikipedia

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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.

  4. Platform screen doors - Wikipedia

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    However, these gates are less effective than full platform screen doors in preventing people from intentionally jumping onto the tracks. [14] These gates were first [clarify] in practical use by the Hong Kong MTR on the Disneyland Resort line for the open-air station designs. Most half-height platform edge door designs have taller designs than ...

  5. Parián (Manila) - Wikipedia

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    Parian circa 1792. Parián or Pantin, also Parián de Arroceros was an area adjacent to Intramuros at its east built to house Sangley merchants in Manila in the 16th and 17th centuries during the Spanish rule in the Philippines. [1]

  6. Ventanilla (Philippine architecture) - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Capiz shell window - Wikipedia

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    Close-up of the panes of a capiz-shell window panel. In 19th-century Philippine colonial architecture, bahay na bato houses extensively used the capiz-shell window element. . Designed to take advantage of tropical cool breezes, these houses' large windows were built at least a meter high and as wide as five mete

  8. Subic Freeport Expressway - Wikipedia

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    The Subic Freeport Expressway (SFEX), formerly the Subic–Tipo Road, Subic–Tipo Expressway and North Luzon Expressway Segment 7 (NLEX Segment 7), is an 8.8-kilometer (5.5 mi) four-lane expressway that connects the Subic–Clark–Tarlac Expressway to the Subic Freeport Zone in the Philippines.

  9. Architecture of the Philippines - Wikipedia

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    Varying Austronesian architecture existed althroughout Southeast asia including what would later become the Philippines. These varying styles exist within different Austronesian ethnic groups but what they have in common is the used of organic materials, Thatch roofings and are often raised above by posts or stilts to avoid floods.