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Diliman Quadrangle, Quezon City: The Histories of the Government Offices along BIR Road / Agham Road

1976 Bureau of Internal Revenue National Office (BIR)

The 1.8 kilometer perpendicular street to East Avenue is the BIR Road, and its extension the Agham Road, is part of the thrust of President Ferdinand Emmanuel Edralin Marcos Sr. (1917-1989) and Mayor Norberto Salandanan Amoranto (1907-1979), to complete the vision of President Manuel Luis Molina Quezón (1878-1944) to develop Quezon City as the…

Quezon City: Post-World War Quezon City and the Reconstruction 1945-1957

1944 October, Pres. Sergio Osmeña Sr. and General Douglas Hardy MacArthur (1880-1964) arriving in Leyte

With the formal surrender of Imperial Japan on the 2th of September 1945, World War II finally ended. The survivors of this horrific episode in human history had to pick up their lives with many loved ones and neighbors killed during the Japanese occupation and the almost one year of fight to…

Cesar Concio

Cesar Concio is the first University Architect of the University of the Philippines. When the University transferred to Diliman from Padre Faura in the late 1940’s, Cesar Concio was tasked to continue what Louis Croft has started.