China Bank is celebrating its centennial this year in the midst of a history filled with challenges and present but still worth celebrating.
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A Museum for Manila’s Chinatown
Recently opened in June 2019, the Chinatown Museum in Binondo an audio-visual experience that takes through the story of Manila's storied Chinatown.
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HUB: Make Lab, A New Escolta Landmark
Escolta is a neighborhood that is already familiar, especially to the regular readers of the Urban Roamer. For the past few years, we have roamed this neighborhood and looked at some of the interesting spots in the area which used to be the city’s financial and commercial center, with some no longer standing today while others manage to survive albeit struggling to find their place in a city constantly endangered by unchecked urbanization. In the past there have been events like monthly Pasyal activities and the Saturday Future Market which were conceived to get people visiting Escolta again. While there was some successes made, they were sadly not enough and…
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From Crystal Arcade to PNB Building to…Gone? The Saga of an Escolta Address
Escolta itself is a street has bore witness and reflected as well the ups and downs Manila’s history: from the glorious past, to the steep decline, to the present struggles and some triumphs of rebirth it is experiencing at the moment. While we have buildings such as Calvo, Regina, and First United to tell us the resilience of this old commercial and business district in the midst of these shifts in the city history, if you want to learn more about the more tragic side these shifts have caused, we have this particular address in Escolta we will be looking at today.
