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Municipal school style- made of more durable materials such as concrete and hardwood floors, with large capiz windows and ironwork grill ornamentation, and corrugated sheet roofing. Usually a raised bungalow. High School building style- made of the same materials of the Municipal school style, usually two storeys.
Gabaldon Schoolhouses is a collective term for heritage schoolhouses built in the Philippines between 1907 and 1946 that follow standard plans designed by Architect William E. Parsons. Pages in category "Gabaldon School Buildings"
The plot was generously donated by the late Don Juan Teopaco, as documented in the Register of Deeds TCT No. 2942. The new structure, completed in 1935, was a Gabaldon schoolhouse, designed in the early 1930s. The Gabaldon Building, with its rectangular shape, showcased intricate sculptures and relief of human figures on its facade and rear.
The Las Piñas Gabaldon Hall is an old school building in Las Piñas located in the campus of the Las Piñas Central Elementary School in Metro Manila, Philippines.The name "Gabaldon schools" derives from a former Nueva Ecija congressman, Isauro Gabaldon, who introduced a law in 1907 that appropriated funds for the construction of school buildings nationwide.
Paco Market. Parsons was born in June 1872 in Akron, Ohio. [note 1] He was educated at Yale University and École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.During the early years of the American colonial era, Governor-General of the Philippines Howard Taft favored a comprehensive building construction and city planning in the country. [1]
Block by Block is a charitable initiative founded as a partnership between Minecraft developer Mojang and the United Nations which aims to encourage young people to get involved in urban regeneration. [1] The scheme uses Minecraft to allow children to rebuild and reimagine their hometowns. [2]
A style may include such elements as form, method of construction, building materials, and regional character. Most architecture can be classified as a chronology of styles which change over time reflecting changing fashions, beliefs and religions, or the emergence of new ideas, technology, or materials which make new styles possible.
Googie was an original architectural style which began in Southern California during the 1940s. Influenced by the coming of the Space Age , the Googie-themed architecture popularity was most notable from the mid-1940s to early 1970s, among motels , coffee houses and gas stations .