page_title: Malacañang Palace
section_title: New Executive Building
hierarchical_section_title: Malacañang Palace / Buildings / New Executive Building
caption_attribution_description: English: Malacañang Palace[1] [2] (Filipino: Palasyo ng Malakanyang), officially Malacañan Palace or simply "the Palace", is the official residence, but not the actual residence, and principal workplace of the President of the Philippines. It is located along Pasig River, Governors-General Francis Burton Harrison and Dwight F. Davis built an executive building, the Kalayaan Hall, which was later transformed into a museum. Since 1986 when Cory Aquino became president, only one president, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, has actually lived in the palace proper, though all lived on the grounds or nearby.[3]Coordinates: 14°35'38"N 120°59'39"E [4] 1000 José P. Laurel Street, San Miguel, Manila[5]Malacañang Palace and Museum Site of the presidency of the Philippines. The Malacañang Museum is situated in historic Kalayaan Hall – the old Executive Building built in 1920 lat: 14.5935506821, long: 120.995094299 [6] New Malacañang Facebook page seeks pics from Palace visitors[7]
context_page_description: Malacañang Palace is the official residence and principal workplace of the President of the Philippines. It is located in San Miguel, Manila and is commonly associated with Mendiola Street. The term "Malacañang" is often used as a metonym for the president and his advisers. The sprawling Malacañang Palace complex includes numerous mansions and office buildings designed and built largely in bahay na bato and neoclassical style.
  The original structure was built in 1750 by Don Luís Rocha as a summer house along the Pasig River. It was purchased by the state in 1825 as the summer residence for the Spanish Governor-General. After the June 3, 1863 earthquake which destroyed the Palacio del Gobernador in the walled city of Manila, it became the Governor-General's official residence. After sovereignty over the Islands was ceded to the United States in 1898, it became the residence of the American Governors, with General Wesley Merritt being the first.
  Since 1863, the Palace has been occupied by eighteen Spanish Governors-General, fourteen American Military and Civil Governors, and later the Presidents of the Philippines.
context_section_description: On the other side of the Palace grounds, beyond the President's Residence is the New Executive Building.  This was the administration building of San Miguel Corporation until bought by government.   President Manuel L. Quezon first proposed the purchase of the nearby San Miguel Brewery as additional office space in 1936. President Ferdinand E. Marcos initiated plans to transform it into an integral part of the Palace, the former San Miguel Brewery buildings were demolished upon the expansion in 1978–79, paving way to a park near the San Miguel Church. However, it was in 1989 under President Corazon C. Aquino that its reconstruction and refurbishing as the New Executive Building took place.
  Its architectural elements deliberately pay homage to the Palace of the Third Republic of the Philippines. Its utilitarian nature, however, made possible much needed additional administrative space, although its newness and lack of proximity to the Palace led to the resumption of the use of the Palace itself by Aquino's successors, Presidents Ramos and Estrada. Currently, it houses the Office of the Presidential Spokesperson, Presidential Communications Development and Strategic Planning Office, Presidential Communications Operations Office, and the Malacañang Press Briefing Room.  Across the street is a Spanish colonial period house adapted to office use now known as the Bahay Ugnayan (Ugnayan House).
caption: The New Executive Building reconstructed during Cory Aquino's presidency
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