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BUCKINGHAM.- Through World Monuments Fund (WMF), The Paul Mellon Estate has announced a pledge of $250,000 towards the restoration of the State Music Room at Stowe House, the magnificent Grade I listed Neo-Classical palace set in 400 acres of landscaped park in Buckinghamshire. The funding means that the work will begin this year and should be completed by 2012-13.
Campaigners are celebrating a "heritage rescue" after buying part of a 19th Century Kent dockyard for almost £2m.
The four-acre site in Sheerness, which contains 10 listed buildings, had been earmarked for flats by developers last year, but the plans were turned down.
The dockyard has been on English Heritage's national at risk register for almost 10 years, and in 2009 it was added to the World Monuments Fund's international Watch List of endangered historic sites.
Architectural historians now widely acknowledge that his Gothic house, Strawberry Hill, or “the castle,” near Twickenham on the banks of the Thames, led to countless other edifices in a similar style, from the Houses of Parliament in London and Victoria Station in Mumbai, to the Town Hall in Vienna, the Parliament building in Budapest and innumerable public buildings and school campuses around the globe.
El presidente de la Junta de Castilla y León, Juan Vicente Herrera, y la Infanta Doña Pilar de Borbón inauguraron ayer las últimas obras de restauración realizadas en la Cartuja de Miraflores, tras una inversión desde el año 2003 de cuatro millones de euros, aportado por entidades públicas y privadas.
The structures, built by Russian-born architect Berthold Lubekin in the 1930s, were placed on the World Monuments Fund at-risk buildings list in 2009 alongside renowned sites like Machu Picchu in Peru.
Tucked behind the massive walls of the Forbidden City in Beijing, the onetime seat of China’s emperors, is Juanqinzhai, the Studio of Exhaustion from Diligent Service. A jewel among the many yellow-tile roofed buildings that comprise the royal precinct (now known as the Palace Museum), this intimate, exquisitely designed two-story structure was built for the Qianlong emperor (reigned 1736–95) and completed in 1776.
Two preservation groups have teamed up to launch a $1 million global initiative to protect historic sites damaged by natural or manmade disasters.
The World Monuments Fund, a New York-based nonprofit, and the Prince Claus Fund, an Amsterdam-based entity supported by the Dutch government, have each promised to contribute $500,000 to their new initiative, dubbed the Cultural Heritage Emergency Response program.
Supported by the World Monuments Fund, INTACH hopes that the heritage routes would make historic sites focal points for neighborhoods and give locals a sense of ownership.
