La justicia porteña ratificó ayer la medida cautelar que frenó las obras para la construcción de una megatorre en el terreno lindero con la iglesia y monasterio Santa Catalina de Siena, declarados patrimonio histórico nacional y situados en el microcentro porteño.
Jeff Allen, program director for the World Monuments Fund, told The Irrawaddy that a major study should begin in September on how water is affecting the teak structure, but that it was important to conduct the scanning first.
“Moisture is a major destroyer for wooden buildings,” Allen said. “It very, very much depends on the process of 3D pictures by the scanning team. It is very important for us. If we don’t have these pictures, we cannot start. From the pictures, we can understand the structures of this building. We cannot start without understanding the structure.”
Every year, WMF supports hands-on field schools at Historic House Trust properties throughout New York City. During their 2014 spring break, a group of students visited the Dyckman Farmhouse Museum in Inwood and carried out preservation cleaning of the house and grounds. It’s My Park documents the student’s work and the history of the site.
Un concurso de dibujo y pintura para escolares inspirado en el Gran Pajatén se realizó en el Museo de Arqueología UNT durante el World Monuments Watch Day 2014 el último lunes 14 de abril con la participación de cerca de 70 niños de diez colegios.
April 18 is the International Day for Monuments and Sites, a day when we remember and celebrate the places that mean the most to us. This year's theme is commemorative monuments. Many of our monuments were built to commemorate an event or to memorialize the builder. From the pyramids at Giza to statues of Stalin and Lenin, these monuments can have very charged political meanings within a moment in time, but also tend to take on new meanings as time passes. Today we may value these places for reasons that have nothing to do with why they were built.
Lamu residents will this week join the rest of the world in celebrating the World Monuments Watch Day. The celebrations will start on the International Day for Monuments and Sites April 18 and will continue to April 20.
The town of Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, recently changed its zoning ordinance to allow the building of a corporate headquarters for LG Electronics that will rise, for the first time, above the pristine tree line along the northern stretch of the New Jersey Palisades, one of the most beautiful and iconic views in the United States. The only thing that can stop this development is public opinion.
The town of Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, recently changed its zoning ordinance to allow the building of a corporate headquarters for LG Electronics that will rise, for the first time, above the pristine tree line along the northern stretch of the New Jersey Palisades, one of the most beautiful and iconic views in the United States. The only thing that can stop this development is public opinion.
Dr Jonathan Foyle is Chief Executive of the World Monuments Fund Britain. He had already helped to restore the precious medieval stained glass that was removed from Coventry Cathedral before the Blitz.
But he also wanted to find out what happened to the Victorian stained glass that filled the rest of the cathedral - not least because so little of Victorian Coventry survives.
Les travaux sont estimés à un million d’euros, dont 200 000 € pour les études préliminaires prises en charge par le gouvernement italien, et 800 000 € assumées par la World Monuments Fund, la plus importante organisation internationale privée, consacrée à la sauvegarde du patrimoine mondial d’exception. Créée en 1965 grâce à des fonds américains, elle contribuera notamment grâce au mécène américain Robert Wilson, et à la Fondation de l’Orangerie, liée à BNP Paribas. Cette restauration « ne coûtera pas un euro au contribuable français », assure enfin Erkki Maillard.
