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Summer 2006

Flume with a View

In the chilly early spring of 1889, two dozen sunburned and wiry mine workers in western Colorado started moving the San Miguel River, damming portions of the waterway and sending it into a new wooden flume, a narrow chute used to channel water. Some 80 million gallons of water a day were slated to...Read more
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United States
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Hanging Flume
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Summer 2006

Indonesian Heritage at Risk

On the morning of May 27, 2006, an earthquake registering 6.2 on the Richter Scale and lasting just under a minute rocked Indonesia. Its epicenter was just 20 kilometers southeast of the historic center of Yogyakarta. The famed eighth-century Buddhist temple of Borobudur, a World Heritage Site some...Read more
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Indonesia
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Tamansari Water Castle
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Summer 2006

Oasis of Tranquility

The sliver of Rome that stretches across the Caelian Hill between the Basilica of St. John Lataran and the Colosseum is as historically significant as it is chaotic—a cacophony of whirring mopeds and rattling Fiats rumbling past tourists streaming between archeological treasures and locals going...Read more
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Italy
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Santi Quattro Coronati Cloister
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Summer 2006

Reclaiming Sacred Space

At a time when there is much discussion about landscape as art, the Endless Column Complex by Romanian sculptor Constantine Brancusi (1876–1957) holds particular significance for the field of landscape architecture. Completed in 1938, the tripartite ensemble—composed of the Endless Column, a 30-...Read more
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Romania
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Brancusi’s Endless Column Ensemble
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Spring 2006

World Monuments Fund in Russia

Russia holds an enduring fascination for architectural conservationists. The periods of perestroika and glasnost have revealed a country that has fought, often on limited resources, to preserve its vast architectural heritage. In the aftermath of the Second World War, if those in the West saw a...Read more
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Russia
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Alexander Palace, Yelagin Island Palace and Park Ensemble, Melnikov's House and Studio, Rusakov Club, Agate Pavilion
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Summer 2006

ICON, Summer 2005

Each time WMF solicits nominations for its biennial list of Most Endangered Sites, the organization's offices are flooded with applications, each making a case for a given site—its importance, the damage it has sustained, and the measures that must be taken to preserve it for future...Read more
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Summer 2006

ICON, Summer 2006

Few regions of the world have so enchanted the explorer as the High Himalaya with its rich spiritual traditions and extraordinary, yet forbidding, landscape, the product of great geological forces, which have been at work for millions of years. Strategically sited between the formidable empires of...Read more
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United States
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