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The Mansion, also known as Mansion House, [1] is the official summer palace of the president of the Philippines, located in the summer capital of the country, Baguio, and situated around 5,000 feet (1,500 m) asl in the Cordillera Central Range of northern Luzon.
This list of house styles lists styles of vernacular architecture – i.e., outside any academic tradition – used in the design of ... List of architectural styles;
This list contains an overview of the government recognized Cultural Properties of the Philippines in the Cordillera Administrative Region. The list is based on the official lists provided by the National Commission on Culture and the Arts, National Historical Commission of the Philippines and the National Museum of the Philippines.
The design of the upper attire is a criss-crossed style of black, white and red colors. The skirt or tapis is a combination of stripes of black, white and red. The hard-speaking Kankanaey women's dress is composed of mainly red and black with a little white styles, as for the skirt or tapis which is mostly called bakget and gateng ...
The park's design is influenced from the City Beautiful movement; It has a small pond or lagoon situated at the green space's center and has regimented rows of grass and sidewalk. [7] According to the Baguio Heritage Foundation in 2014, only the open field often used for football and the Melvin Jones Grandstand adhere to Burnham's original ...
A large bahay kubo with walls made of thatch, c. 1900. The Filipino term báhay kúbo roughly means "country house", from Tagalog.The term báhay ("house") is derived from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *balay referring to "public building" or "community house"; [4] while the term kúbo ("hut" or "[one-room] country hut") is from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kubu, "field hut [in rice fields]".
The indigenous peoples of the Cordillera in northern Luzon, Philippines, often referred to by the exonym Igorot people, [2] or more recently, as the Cordilleran peoples, [2] are an ethnic group composed of nine main ethnolinguistic groups whose domains are in the Cordillera Mountain Range, altogether numbering about 1.8 million people in the early 21st century.
Ivatan architecture is found in both the northernmost islands of Batanes and Babuyan, and a subset of its vernacular common house (sinadumparan) architecture are unique within the country for its predominantly stone structure - a protective, durable element from the particularly storm and earthquake-wrought landscape of the region.