![]() A Tourist Guide to Notable Philippine Churches (New Day Publishers, 2007).Pathfinder’s Travel Guide: Boracay (Great Books Trading, 2006).A Philippine Odyssey (New Day Publishers, 2005).He is also the author of the following travel books: Architecture degree from the University of the Philippines Diliman in 1982), is an avid reader, traveler and free-lance travel writer in his spare time, contributing articles to Travel Update, Philippine Daily Inquirer, COLORS, TODAY, 7107 Islands Magazine, Business Day, Bluprint and the Business Mirror. Barns and Labrador chose the 1930s, because it was during this period that the country’s independence movement started to intensify.īENJAMIN “BENJIE” LAYUG, an architect by profession (he finished his B. Its prewar look became the peg of the restoration work. They also tapped the expertise of the museum’s four heritage architects led by Evelyn Esguerra.ĭuring the in-house restoration project, the National Museum’s Jeremy Barns (director) and Ana Labrador (assistant director) pored over old pictures in their attempt to produce a newly restored Session Hall that’s as close as possible to the original. (PAGCOR), and Php14 million from the museum’s 2012 budget. In April 2010, work on the Session Hall’s (Php20 million) two-year restoration started, with funding coming from 2011 National Museum endowment fund (Php6 million) of the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp. In 1996, after the Senate moved to its new home at the GSIS Building in Pasay City, the old Session Hall was closed again. When democracy was restored after the People Power Revolution in 1986, the Senate and Congress returned to their old homes in the Legislative Building. During the Marcos era, the Batasan Pambansa in Quezon City housed the parliament. When martial law was declared, it was closed and later turned into one of the National Museum’s galleries during the remainder of the Marcos years. and his allies in the opposition delivered privilege speeches during the run-up to martial law in 1972. ![]() Here, then Senator Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino Jr.
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