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Fall 2004

Viva Mexico!

With a population exceeding 24 million and urban sprawl blanketing an estimated 1,482 square kilometers, Mexico City is among the largest cities in the world—and one of the highest at an elevation of 2,240 meters. As one gazes out over the seemingly endless imprint of civilization embraced by the...Read more
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Mexico
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Modern Murals (Feast of the Santa Cruz by Montenegro) Colegio de San Pedro y San Pablo, Mexico City Historic Center, Palace of Fine Arts (Palacio de Bellas Artes)
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Fall 2004

Young and Defenseless

There had never been a building like it: a skyscraper that twisted back on itself like a pretzel, wrapping glass and steel around a hole filled with sky. But after 25 years or so, the vast bureaucracy of the government TV station headquartered there had been dispersed and a building that had once...Read more
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Tugendhat Villa, VDL Research House II, A. Conger Goodyear House, Ennis Brown House, Viipuri Library, Schindler Kings Road House and Studio, National Art Schools
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2004

2004 World Monuments Watch

Every two years since 1996, the World Monuments Watch has focused global attention on cultural heritage sites around the world that are facing such dangers and that illuminate current issues in the field of heritage preservation.Read more
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Summer 2004

Along the Calzada del Cerro

During the late-eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, a booming plantation economy developed in western Cuba, spawning a dramatic increase in the country’s population as well as prompting a consolidation of its land-owning Creole aristocracy within the capital city of Havana. In the span of...Read more
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Cuba
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Calzada del Cerro
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Summer 2004

Beyond Memnon

The towering Colossi of Memnon are among the most impressive of the ancient monuments that dot the West Bank of the Nile at Luxor. Yet few visitors are aware that these magnificent sculptures are but two of countless statues that once graced the Mortuary Temple of Amenhotep III—in its day, the...Read more
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Egypt
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The Mortuary Temple of Amenhotep III
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Summer 2004

Bourgeois Dreams

A long stroll through the Georgian capital of Tbilisi lays bare the tumultuous history of this tiny country, nestled between Turkey and Russia on the eastern shore of the Black Sea, in the sooty, crumbling buildings that hug its winding streets and rise high on the hills over the Mtkvari River. Read more
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Georgia
Related Projects
Tbilisi Historic District
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Summer 2004

ICON, Summer 2004

When people think of historic preservation, what often comes to mind is a campaign to save a singular work of architectural merit. Yet over the years, the preservation community has adopted a wider world view of conservation, one that demands that we step back and consider collections of buildings—...Read more
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Summer 2004

Market Value

When my colleagues and I first spied the Shaxi Valley from atop a mountain ridge in 1999, we were struck by its scenic beauty. We desperately wanted to explore the valley, but, unfortunately, Shaxi was not on the official itinerary provided by our host, the government of Jianchuan County, which had...Read more
Country: 
China
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Shaxi Market Area
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Summer 2004

Visions of Vanishing Japan

For more than 1,000 years, Seto Naikai, Japan’s great Inland Sea, has served as a vast commercial highway, linking the islands of Kyushu and Shikoku with southern Honshu. Its 440-km coastline is punctuated with beautiful bays, inlets, and promontories. Within the sea itself are more than 3,000 tiny...Read more
Country: 
Japan
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Tomo Port Town
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Spring 2004

The Battle for Battersea

For 70 years now, the vast brick walls and towering chimneys of Battersea Power Station have dominated the South London skyline, impossible to miss as one gazes out a train window while rumbling toward Waterloo or approaching the Thames en route to Victoria Station.Read more
Country: 
United Kingdom
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Battersea Power Station
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