• Roamer tidbits

    Roamer Tidbits: FAME Publishing’s Bloggers’ Night 2014

    As part of the changes set for The Urban Roamer, the site will be having some features once in a while called “Roamer tidbits.” This will be a feature related to news regarding this site or exclusive events attended by the Urban Roamer as deemed appropriate The Urban Roamer was honored to be part of the recent Bloggers’ Night 2014, held at the Megaworld showroom at McKinley Hill (which was convenient for me since my workplace. was just a few blocks away) This event was hosted by FAME Publishing, the folks behind the publications H&L, Zen Health, Diabetease, Travel Plus, among others. My deep thanks to the folks over at…

  • Quezon City

    At the House of Precast

    Many of us may not know what the word “precast” means or what it’s about, but its importance in the shaping of the urban landscape that we know today cannot be emphasized well enough. We may not know it, but the sights we see in our city from the classical monuments to the columnar designs to the ornamental details of edifices, they all have precast figured into their designs. But apologies for getting myself go further without explaining what precast is about. Anyway, it is defined as a material, usually of concrete or plaster, that is cast in a mold to be brought to a site for installation. Precast comes…