WMF Journal
May 20, 2011
Miami Mission
Posted by Frank Sanchis, Program Director, United States
The campaign to preserve and restore Miami Marine Stadium got a boost on April 28, when a design competition for a floating stage to compliment the stadium was held at the University of Miami.
Read moreMay 20, 2011
UPenn Students Propose Watch Solutions
Posted by Pauline Eveillard, Senior Program AssociateIn May, Pauline and Erica Avrami, WMF’s Research and Education Director participated in a day of presentations at the University of Pennsylvania. Graduate students in historic preservation at UPenn focused research for their advanced conservation science class on 2010 Watch sites.
Read moreApril 17, 2011
Hands Around Wheatley
Posted by John H. Stubbs, Senior Advisor
John Stubbs, WMF’s Vice President for Field Projects, recently traveled to New Orleans to partake in a demonstration against the demolition of Phillis Wheatley Elementary School.
Read moreMarch 31, 2011
Into the Clouds
Posted by Mark Weber, Field Projects Director
Mark Weber, WMF’s Field Projects Director, traveled to Bhutan in July to visit three sites. Two of them, Trashigang Dzong and Drametse Lhakang, are the focus of joint WMF-Prince Claus Fund disaster relief projects, as both were damaged in a recent earthquake. The third site, Phajoding Monastery, was on the 2010 Watch and is the subject of this blog post.
Read moreFebruary 24, 2011
Update on 2010 Watch Site Ujumbe Palace in the Comoros
Posted by Fatima Boyer, Président Collectif du Patrimoine des Comores
The palace of Ujumbe is situated in Mutsamudu, the capital city of Anjouan, the second main island in the Union of Comoros.
Built in the eighteenth century by King Abdallah I, improved and embellished up to the nineteenth century, the palace had been the political centre of the island and had played a major part in the history of the Comoros.
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