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July 02, 2009

Plenty of Life Left in Miami Marine Stadium

How cool was Miami in the 1960s? Just take a look at the Miami Marine Stadium, built in 1964 as a powerboat racing and water skiing venue. Today, the stadium is vacant but remains a popular visual landmark in the Miami skyline. The concrete structure, with its jagged roof line and cantilevered canopy is now coated with multicolored graffiti; a far cry from the place where Sammy Davis, Jr., famously hugged Richard Nixon on stage in 1972 and Jimmy Buffet performed in 1985.
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July 01, 2009

US Ambassador to Cambodia Visits Phnom Bakheng Site

The US Department of State awarded funds toward a comprehensive stone conservation program and is also interested in learning more about the tourism management challenges at the site, which is often very crowded at the end of the day when people climb the hill to see the sunset and the commanding view of the temples at Angkor and the surrounding countryside.
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June 29, 2009

Churning of the Sea of Milk Gallery: Angkor, Cambodia

At the magnificent temple of Angkor Wat, we are restoring the Churning of the Sea of Milk gallery. This gallery houses the celebrated 160-foot-long (49 meters) bas-relief that depicts one of the most important themes of Hindu mythology: the creation myth in which devas (gods) and asuras (demons) churn the primordial ocean to release amrita, the elixir of immortality.
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June 29, 2009

Requiem for Riverview

Riverview High School in Sarasota, Florida, an icon of Modern design by Paul Rudolph, succumbed to the wrecking ball this month following a multiyear fight to save it. In 2008 WMF, supported by Knoll, launched an international competition for an adaptive reuse plan for the building.
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June 02, 2009

Trip Report: Banská Štiavnica Calvary Complex, Slovakia

It hardly felt like the first day of spring when I arrived in Banská Štiavnica, the sleepy little former mining hill-town in central Slovakia. The well-preserved Renaissance town center is nestled in the basin of an ancient volcano, and as I ascended from the outer rim of the crater, I could immediately see the red painted churches and chapels of the Calvary site amidst the snow-covered fields across the valley.
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June 02, 2009

Site Visit: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Florida Southern College

My WMF colleague Jamie Kendall and I recently returned from a two-day visit at Florida Southern College where we convened a group of international scholars, architects, and architectural conservators to discuss Frank Lloyd Wright's use of concrete or block construction.
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April 06, 2009

L'Aquila, Italy

World Monuments Fund mourns the lives lost following the earthquake in the historic city of L'Aquila, Italy, on April 6, 2009
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February 01, 2009

Museo Correr, Venice

WMF has been working to conserve various rooms in Napoleon’s Palazzo Reale in the Museo Correr for a decade.
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