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Altering Dumaguete’s urban landscape

In spite of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and the present state of work-from-home life, Dumaguete architect Ned Carlos displays no sign of deceleration. Case in point, is his relentless proposal to make Dumaguete City a walkable, functional, and healthy city ...

From 8 days ago

Dumaguete architect celebrates past, future

If one were to call in architectural firms that have molded Dumaguete City’s urban landscape, Carlos & Antique Architects would be in the top three. Co-founded in 2001 by architect Menell Carlos, the firm is responsible for such iconic city ...

From 35 days ago

Renovation with meticulous simplicity

After months of designing, drawing and approvals, and more months of construction, an architect finally saw his face-lifting project come to life.“The original dwelling is an eclectic two-storey, which we reinstated in a modern style compassionate to the minimalist lifestyle,” ...

From 50 days ago

Power couple’s architectural journey

When Dumaguete City clients come to architect Ned and Menell Carlos, they habitually know what to assume, but they can never fairly express accurately what they will get.Both are modernists who have verified over and over again that simple and ...

From 107 days ago

Life in 2021 and beyond: One architect’s perspective

SOCIETY has been trying to envisage the future for as long as humans existed—the Mayans, Nostradamus, Leonardo da Vinci, and even Bill Gates. They’ve all engaged their hails and consequent miscues at forecasting what is to arise in our times.Most ...

From 140 days ago

Curating pandan

In December 2020, Meya Carlos and her architect-mom, Menell, introduced Architect’s Curations to the world. Through Instagram posts that received orders from customers around Dumaguete City, the senior high student of De La Salle University shared photos of the native ...

From 156 days ago

Post-modern deja vu

Re-designing an existing structure in avant-garde fashion could form a culture shock among the locals.Restraint by the existing structure, known as the “white house” as it was coated all white for decades, was refashioned to somehow conversant and tranquil to ...

From 169 days ago

Architect’s foray into furniture

ARCHITECTS and furniture designers share the dialectal of form, hue and quality. Materials — whether they are concrete or wood — are surveyed for their opportunities, how they send strong ideas or styles of sensation.The preliminary drafts of the architect ...

From 178 days ago

Sustainability makes business, tourism sense

Public parks, expressly in inner-city milieus such as Cebu City, are essential preserves for home-grown inhabitants. Up till now, the problem several cities face is a deficiency of space to create them. As a consequence, some architects have been forced ...

From 190 days ago

Abstraction of Mt. Sinai

The St. John Bosco Chapel is the foremost religious structure built in all of Don Bosco School’s 50 years of presence in Dumaguete City. Amid the buildings within the school estate, it is the solitary edifice identifiable with an iconic, ...

From 243 days ago

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