In the wake of the Manila Central Post Office fire, Senator Robinhood Padilla stressed Monday the need to improve preservation and protection measures for the country’s cultural properties.
IN the wake of the Manila Central Post Office fire, Senator Robinhood Padilla stressed Monday the need to improve preservation and protection measures for the country’s cultural properties.
Padilla pointed out “this recent incident underscores the vulnerability of our national cultural heritage to fire and other hazards and highlights the urgent need to revisit and assess the effectiveness of existing preservation and protection measures.” The senator recalled that the Manila Central Post Office Building is an iconic neo-classical building designed in 1926 by American architects Ralph Doane and Tomas Mapua, and Filipino architect Juan Marcos de Guzman Arellano.
Moreover, Padilla pointed out that in 2018, the Manila Post Office building was declared an “important cultural property.”
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