The National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NHCP) has issued a cease-and-desist order on the demolition of the Admiral Hotel along Roxas Boulevard in Manila, one of the city's "heritage buildings" placed under "redevelopment" efforts.

Tourism advocate Carlos Celdran posted a copy of the order, issued last Friday, on his Facebook page on Monday, saying that demolition is still ongoing despite it.

Cultural activists have expressed outrage over the demolition, which they said happened under the guise of redeveloping the property, designed by eminent architect Fernando H. Ocampo, into a 150-room boutique hotel to be completed in the last quarter of 2016.

The faade of the structure has already been demolished, as the demolition started last September 20, Heritage Conservation Society president Ivan Henares said.

The NHCP earlier said it found "no historical events that transpired" at the landmark structure when Anchor Land Holdings, Inc., the company in charge, requested a certification of its cultural significance "to remove the presumption that the Admiral Hotel is an important cultural property."

However, it recommended that Anchor Land apply "adaptive reuse" on the redevelopment of the property, as well as to approach "pertinent cultural agencies" particularly the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA), which may find the architecture's "Old World-charm... worth of conservation."

In the cease-and-desist order, the NHCP stressed that Anchor Land had merely asked for "information on the historical significance" of the hotel "rather than permission for its demolition."

Anchor Land also failed to secure permission from other agencies, such as the NCCA and the National Museum, it added.

"This Commission thus has nothing to do with the Demolition Permit issued by the Office of the Building Official of the City of Manila to the Admiral Realty Co., Inc., dated 4 September 2014," the Order read. "Moreover, the Commission notes that Anchor Land failed to obtain permission for the demolition from other cultural agencies that may have an interest in the Admiral Hotel as a cultural property."

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WILLIAMSBURG Demolition of the city's Stryker Building, in preparation for construction of a new building to house both City Council chambers and conference rooms and offices for the Williamsburg Library, is officially late.

Demolition had been scheduled to begin in September.

Last week City Manager Jack Tuttle said it was "day-to-day" on setting a firm start date for demolition.

The holdup is negotiation of the construction schedule between the building's architects David Stemann and Edwin Pease, and builder Daniel & Company.

"We only want to start work on the site one time," Tuttle said. "We don't want to do the demolition and then have to open the site again for construction.

Tuttle said that delays in doing the demolition work will put the project behind schedule.

"Fortunately, we can operate as we are now, with Council meeting in the Municipal Building, indefinitely," he said. "There's no firm deadline the building has to be finished by."

Nothing about replacing the vintage 1967 Stryker Building, formerly home to not only council chamber but to the Williamsburg Redevelopment and Housing Authority and the voter registrar's office, has come easy.

Following an unsolicited proposal to redesign or replace the building, City Council launched put our a request for proposals. But it didn't like any of the first proposals. It restarted the process and finally, after 10 months, chose the winning design a much more contemporary looking building than the present Stryker.

Council chose a design that called for the complete demolition of the building which has been plagued by mold problems rather than re-use of the building.

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