If you want to go green, go Filipino. This seems to be the not-so-subliminal message within “Beyond the Bahay Kubo: 16 Climate-Conscious Tropical Homes,” a new book featuring top-shelf residences ...

BELIEVE it or not, the typical low-tech “bahay kubo” built by the Filipinos’ ancestors centuries ago can be considered the first “green building,” which is fast-becoming the trend in the so-called ...

We Filipinos have been "tiny house living" long before it became a thing. According to a report on Monday's "Unang Balita," a young architect in Tagbilaran, Bohol has designed a modern "bahay kubo" ...

Here is the inspiration for this week’s column. My father, Boom Boncan, showed me this modern bamboo model house in Puerto Princesa, Palawan, inspired by the bahay-kubo. It is for the Palawan Council ...

Italy and the Philippines have a long, shared history together. Filipinos comprise the sixth largest foreign population group in Italy, and the second largest group of Asians. Italy is also the second ...

Ancestral architecture spans a long history and is unique throughout the world. Each structure has its own stories. Here in the Philippines, we have our fair share of them, from buildings made of ...

In a world where the line between cultural homage and commercial flair is increasingly thin, Bahay Kubo’s ₱2,000 scrunchie—helmed by a Filipina-British model—has sparked a stylish yet charged ...