Unless county legislators act quickly, a paragon of midcentury American idealism will be lost.
Paul Rudolph’s Orange County Government Center, in Goshen, N.Y., announces itself as a civic hub. It’s made of corrugated concrete and glass, organized into three pavilions around a courtyard, like an old wagon train around a village green.
RANGOON — An international conference to provide policy recommendations on the future of Rangoon has called for government coordination to realize the economic, social and physical benefits from heritage conservation in Burma’s largest city.
RECORD finally posed its question to two organizations devoted to historic preservation, and their responses reveal stewardship’s role in contemporary life. The World Monuments Fund named its restoration of the Mughal Gardens in Agra, with the Archaeological Survey of India, as its most important work in the built environment this year. Bonnie Burnham, the New York–based group’s president and CEO, says the capital of the Mughal Empire “was once an earthly paradise” whose buildings ultimately informed the making of the Taj Mahal.
A massive statue of Pharaoh Amenhotep III was toppled in an earthquake some 3,000 years ago.
It has risen again.
The 50-ton, 13-meter (42-foot) statue was unveiled on Sunday at the ancient city of Luxor, Egypt, restored to its former grandeur due to the hard work of Egyptian and German archaeologists.
According to Gaetano Palumbo, the World Monuments Fund programme director for North Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia, there is agreement that the top auction houses of the world are now much more cautious about what goes on sale through their auctions.
“In the latest Unesco meetings regarding Syria and Iraq, a representative from Christie’s was present. Of course, provenance documents can be falsified but they said they are paying a lot of attention and not putting anything on sale that is not clearly provenanced.”
Pelestarian situs prasejarah yang menjadi cagar budaya memiliki efek yang sangat baik bagi masyarakat. Selain menjaga dan melestarikan benda-benda pusaka (heritage) dalam kepunahan akibat ketidaktahuan dan ketidakpedulian, pelestarian cagar budaya juga dapat meningkatkan perekonomian masyarakat sekitar.
Preserving heritage is not a romantic or emotional issue. It is the need of the hour,” said well-known architect Kamil Khan Mumtaz during his keynote address at the ‘Promoting Heritage Awareness’ conference on World Monuments Watch Day-2014 organised by the Endowment Fund Trust for Preservation of the Heritage of Sindh and the Heritage Cell, NED University, Karachi, on the premises of Government School Shikarpur here on Thursday.
U.S. engagement in problems overseas can be controversial, but it’s hard to argue with the idea of Americans helping to, say, keep the Leaning Tower of Pisa from toppling.
Saving famous monuments — and many of the treasures contained within the world’s crumbling architectural heritage — is essentially the mission of the World Monuments Fund, a New York-based nonprofit that promoted its work Monday evening in the Italian Embassy’s swank Piero Sartogo party space.
Warga Trowulan bersama Mandala Majapahit (ManMa) yang merupakan pusat pelestarian peninggalan Kerajaan Majapahit yang didirikan Yayasan Arsari Djojohadikusumo (YAD) menggelar "Festival Trowulan Majapahit 2014" (FTM-2014) untuk pertama kalinya pada 6-23 November dan akan digelar secara rutin pada setiap November.
