DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH

PHILIPPINES
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH

The Philippine Department of Health as DOH; Filipino: (Kagawaran ng

Kalusugan) is the executive department of the Philippine
government responsible for ensuring access to basic public
health services by all Filipinos through the provision of quality health
care and the regulation of all health services and products. It is the
government's over-all technical authority on health.
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Born: September 9, 1887 Paris, France
Died: January 22, 1952
Nationality: Filipino

• A Filipino architect who built the first air-conditioned building in the

Philippines, The Crystal Arcade Building (now the present site of PNB Escolta
Building)

• He was assigned as the architect of the City of Manila from 1920 to 1924.

• His designs were modernist. Some of them were lost during World War II.
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The Crystal Arcade

• The crystal arcade is considered the first

shopping mall in the Philippines.

• The Crystal Arcade was designed in the art

deco style, a style prevalent in the 1920s to
the 1940s. It was to be one of Luna's
masterpieces, with the building finish
resembled that of a gleaming crystal.
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Legarda Elementary School: Manila’s Heritage School
• The school was built in 1922

• Owned by a prominent family in the area, the

Legardas.

• Legarda Elementary School today serves as

a reminder of the glory days Philippine
education once had and perhaps to serve as
hope for better days ahead for the country’s
educational system. Seeing this school with its
beauty kept largely intact, there is reason to
be optimistic somehow.
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Pérez Samanillo Building

• Built in 1928, the Pérez Samanillo was

designed in the art-deco/art-nouveau style
through the partnership of the great
architects Andrés Luna de San Pedro and
Juan F. Nakpil de Jesús.

• The building was one of the most modern

in its time.
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Regina Building
• Established year 1934

• Designed in a mixed neo-classical and

beaux-arts styles

• The building was renamd as the Regina, in

honor of José Leoncio de León's wife, heiress
Regina Joven Gutiérrez Hizon de León. The
building became the offices of the de León
businesses of Pampanga Sugar Development
Co. (PASUDECO) and National Life Insurance Co.
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Lizares Mansion

• Built in 1937 by Don Emiliano Lizares for

his wife Concepcion Gamboa.

• The mansion was then used as

headquarters of the Japanese army. It was
believed that the basement became a
dumping ground for tortured Filipinos.

• In 1978, the Lizares Mansion compound

became the home of Angelicum School
Iloilo.
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THE MANILA HOTEL

• The hotel is the oldest premiere hotel in

the Philippines built in 1909 to
rival Malacañang Palace, the official
residence of the President of the Philippines
and was opened on the commemoration of
American Independence on July 4, 1912.

• Renovated by Andres Luna De San Pedro

during Philippine Commonwealth in 1935.
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Uy Chaco Building

• Philtrust Bank

• One of the first buildings in

Binondo and one of the few Art
Nouveau buildings in Manila.

• This six-storey building was owned

by Mariano Uy Chaco, he was known
for supplying the local government
with hardware. He later on passed his
building to his son Uy Vet.
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