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Date: 
October 2013

Análisis y plan de gestión de riesgo-adaptación ante el impacto del cambio climático del Parque Arqueológico Quiriguá

The publication explains the implementation of the integrated approach to climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction to the Archaeological Park and Ruins of Quirigua in Guatemala. It is a contribution to the conservation of tangible cultural and natural heritage, which is constantly...Read more
Country: 
Guatemala
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Archaeological Park and Ruins of Quiriguá
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Date: 
Spring 2006

ICON, Spring 2006

With an architectural legacy that spans nearly a millennium, Moscow is a virtual primer on the history of Russian architecture—its streets lined with buildings representing all ages and methods of construction. Yet, like so many cities witnessing urban renewal after years of decline, Moscow is at a...Read more
Country: 
United States
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Date: 
Spring 2006

Rescuing a Russian Treasure

Commissioned by Count Nicholas Petrovitch Cheremetiev (1751–1809) at the close of the eighteenth century, Ostankino palace ranks among the most important surviving estates in the Russian Federation. The one-story neoclassical building is composed of a central pavilion, which is flanked by an...Read more
Country: 
Russia
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Ostankino Estate Museum
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Date: 
Spring 2006

Restoring an Intimate Splendor

For the past four years, the Palace Museum in Beijing and the World Monuments Fund (WMF) have partnered in the restoration of the Forbidden City’s Lodge of Retirement (see Qianlong’s Private World, ICON, Winter 2003/2004). The two-story lodge has the most exquisite interior of the elaborate...Read more
Country: 
China
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Juanqinzhai in the Qianlong Garden
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Date: 
Spring 2006

The Genius of Sir John Soane

It is ironic in this age of quick fixes that many are seeking solace in the intense, imaginative world of the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century architect Sir John Soane, whose stripped-down classicism, loved for so long by purists, has witnessed an extraodinary revival in recent years...Read more
Country: 
United Kingdom
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Stowe House, Moggerhanger House
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Date: 
Spring 2006

Utopian Dreams

Behind the Narkomfin Dom Kommuna’s austere bands of double-height windows unfolds a six-story blueprint for communal living that is as ingenious as it is humane. Built between 1928 and 1930 by a team of architects and engineers led by Moisei Ginzburg, a member of the post-revolutionary Union of...Read more
Country: 
Russia
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Narkomfin Building
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Date: 
Spring 2006

Vaults of Heaven

This spring, the World Monuments Fund will be featuring the work of renowned Turkish architect and photographer Ahmet Ertug˘ in a new exhibition—Vaults of Heaven: Sanctuaries of Byzantium—on view at its Manhattan gallery. Prior to the exhibition’s New York debut, gallery curator and ICON...Read more
Country: 
Turkey
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Hagia Sophia
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Date: 
Spring 2006

Historic Moscow Under Siege

It ought to be inconceivable that a city with as rich an architectural legacy as Moscow could continue to lose so many of its historic buildings, having already lost so much of its cultural heritage during the twentieth century. Yet that is precisely what is happening—photographs taken of streets...Read more
Country: 
Russia
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