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The Watch: Making a
Difference
The 2010 Watch list was announced just last
month, and its impact is already being
felt. The nominators of
the historic center of Buenos
Aires, Basta de Demoler, received a huge boost
on their website following the Watch
announcement: their monthly web traffic increased
from 450 visitors in September to over 6800 in
October, a nearly 1600% increase in
traffic.The Friends of Miami Marine Stadium have also
used the Watch listing to gain tremendous
visibility. The Associated Press wrote a feature about the site
(picked up by many major news outlets), Jimmy
Buffett released a video supporting the stadium's
restoration, and Friends of Miami Marine Stadium
member Don Worth gave an extensive interview on local TV.
We look
forward to hearing many more success stories like
these!
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Modernism at Risk on the
Road
WMF's traveling exhibition, " Modernism at Risk: Modern
Solutions for Saving Modern Landmarks", is now
on view at the Art Institute of Tampa Gallery in
Tampa, Florida, through December 12. The
exhibition will come to New York City in the
winter, where it will be on view at the AIA New
York Center for Architecture from February 11
through April 15,
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WMF Staff Out and About On
December 6 at 2:00 p.m., Executive VP and COO Lisa
Ackerman is speaking on our project at Babylon, at
the Greenburgh Public Library in Elmsford, NY, as
part of the AIA Westchester Society's lecture
program. The lecture is free and open to the
public.
VP for Field Projects John Stubbs
has a number of talks lined up in the coming
months, including a discussion of his book, Time Honored: A Global
View of Architectural Conservation, on
December 4 at 11:00 a.m. at an ICCROM conference
in Rome. This lecture is also open to the
public.
Check out our lectures page for more
information.
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Photos of the Merritt's
Bridges on View The bridges of Connecticut's Merritt
Parkway, recently placed on the 2010 Watch,
are fortuitously the focus of a photography
exhibition on view through January 8 at
FXFOWLE, a New York City architecture firm.
Michael Zenreich took the photos in 1980 as part
of a youth grant from the National Endowment of
the Humanities and has now digitized
them.
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