World Monuments Fund has listed the Cloisters in Manhattan and the Palisades in New Jersey on its annual list of endangered cultural sites, citing the construction of a new corporate headquarters in Englewood Cliffs that is to rise above the tree line as a threat to the view from the museum across the Hudson.
The Great Grimsby Ice Factory Trust say they hope the inclusion of the town's ice factory on the World Monument Fund's biannual watch list will help them secure heritage lottery funding to save the building. Secretary Graeme Bassett says they have ambitious plans for transforming it.
The New Jersey Palisades are included on a list of endangered cultural sites compiled by the World Monuments Fund, which cited the expansion of LG Electronic's headquarters as a threat to the cliffs.
Last week's forum on the Orange County Government Center sounded at times like an art appreciation class, as renown architects tried to make the audience see the misunderstood treasure in a new light.
The Shakers believed work, especially that done by human hands, was a form of high prayer. The 1859 Great Stone Barn in this Columbia County town is a good example.
A rough, 50-foot-wide, one-story edifice of fieldstone abuts Darrow Road at the east end of the historic structure on the Mount Lebanon Shaker Society property.
El Patronato de la Alhambra y el Generalife ha iniciado la rehabilitación del Oratorio del Partal, una capilla doméstica de la época del sultán Yusuf I, que permitirá recuperar su armadura y remozar los paramentos y yeserías a finales de 2014. La World Monuments Fund (WMN), entidad dedicada a la promoción y restauración del patrimonio, y el patronato invertirán 461.000 euros para afrontar las mejoras necesarias de este espacio alhambreño de gran valor.
