Friday, September 1, 2017

Gapan City’s Old Casa Municipal Undergoing Restoration


In December 2016, the city’s old municipal building still sported its baby pink stucco façade. The side walls, however, were brick, prompting one to surmise that the cement front was most probably just a permutation of, or digression from, the original design. Whether the change in the  exterior’s material served a purpose or whether it conformed to some construction codes or engineering principles, one thing was certain: to restore the building to its original design, new materials have to be removed. And true enough, the structure’s ongoing restoration has revealed its brick masonry walls.