Francisco Manosa
Overview
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
noted for his Filipino inspired architectural designs. He designed The Coconut Palace
Coconut Palace
The Coconut Palace, also known as Tahanang Pilipino , is the official residence and principal workplace of the Vice President of the Philippines. Located at the CCP Complex, in Pasay, south of the centre of Manila, it was commissioned by former First Lady Imelda Marcos for Pope John Paul II's visit...
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Manosa, on May, 2008 built his own Ayala alabang village
Ayala alabang village
Ayala Alabang was an outer suburb of Metro Manila in Muntinlupa city district in the Philippines around from the center of Metro Manila. The upscale neighborhood was created in 1981. Large portion of it came from Barangay Alabang....
Bahay Kubo mansion
Mansion
A mansion is a very large dwelling house. U.S. real estate brokers define a mansion as a dwelling of over . A traditional European mansion was defined as a house which contained a ballroom and tens of bedrooms...
. With only 3 posts or "haligi", it has 5 one-inch coconut
Coconut
The coconut palm, Cocos nucifera, is a member of the family Arecaceae . It is the only accepted species in the genus Cocos. The term coconut can refer to the entire coconut palm, the seed, or the fruit, which is not a botanical nut. The spelling cocoanut is an old-fashioned form of the word...
shell doors, 2nd floor, a "silong", Muslim
Muslim
A Muslim, also spelled Moslem, is an adherent of Islam, a monotheistic, Abrahamic religion based on the Quran, which Muslims consider the verbatim word of God as revealed to prophet Muhammad. "Muslim" is the Arabic term for "submitter" .Muslims believe that God is one and incomparable...
room, sala, and master's bedroom with a fish pond
Fish pond
A fish pond, or fishpond, is a controlled pond, artificial lake, or reservoir that is stocked with fish and is used in aquaculture for fish farming, or is used for recreational fishing or for ornamental purposes...
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- Assumption College Chapel
- Mary Immaculate Church (Las Pinas)
- Quadricentennial Altar
- Risen Lord Parish Church (Las Pinas)
- St.
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