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Firms Head to Haiti
The Real Deal, Monday, March 1, 2010
Keywords: Disaster Recovery, Haiti
Related Projects: GINGERBREAD HOUSES , CITADELLE HENRI
New York City architecture and construction firms are heading to Haiti in an effort to help rebuild the devastated Caribbean nation, which was hit with a magnitude 7 earthquake in January.
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Miami Marine Stadium Repair Costs Could Be Less than Thought
Miami Herald, Monday, February 1, 2010
Keywords: 2010 Watch, Modernism
Related Projects: MIAMI MARINE STADIUM
The cost of repairing the historic but deteriorated Miami Marine Stadium could be substantially lower than previous estimates, according to a new engineering study that appears to boost the prospects of renovation for the long-shuttered site.
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A Trip Through Peru
Travel + Leisure, Thursday, December 31, 2009
Keywords: Andahuaylillas
Related Projects: SAN PEDRO APÓSTOL DE ANDAHUAYLILLAS CHURCH
Andrew Solomon writes about a trip through Peru, including a visit to Andahuaylillas.
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Anne Bass: All the Right Moves
W Magazine, Thursday, December 31, 2009
Keywords: Angkor
Read about Anne Bass’s new film about a Cambodian dancer she discovered while on a WMF trip to Angkor.
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A Stadium Comeback
Metropolis Magazine, Friday, December 18, 2009
Keywords: Modernism, USA, Watch
Related Projects: MIAMI MARINE STADIUM
In October the World Monuments Fund named Miami Marine Stadium to its 2010 Watch List of endangered places. Three and a half weeks before that, a video of Jimmy Buffett stumping for the poured-concrete structure appeared on YouTube.
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Frozen in time: Captain Scott's huts
The Independent, Friday, December 18, 2009
Keywords: The Watch
Related Projects: SCOTT’S HUT AND THE EXPLORERS’ HERITAGE OF ANTARCTICA
Time and the elements are stacked against the future survival of Scott's hut and its 8,000 items of equipment and expedition memorabilia.
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Listed East End synagogue is restored—after 107 years
East London Advertiser, Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Related Projects: CONGREGATION OF JACOB SYNAGOGUE
A story on the restoration of Congregation of Jacob Synagogue in London's East End, a WMF project.
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Antigua Casa de las Columnas del siglo XVI se restaura con éxito en Lima
Enlace Nacional, Monday, December 7, 2009
Related Projects: LIMA HISTORIC CENTER
WMF President Bonnie Burnham and Program Director Norma Barbacci discuss Casa de las Columnas in the historic city center of Lima, Peru.
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Preservation Corner: Troubled Masterpieces
Modernism Magazine, Thursday, December 3, 2009
Related Projects: TALIESIN , TALIESIN WEST
Modernism Magazine tallies the Taliesins and the plethora of other endangered modernist structures in our 2010 Watch.
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Babylon Ruins Translate Into Tourist Dollars for Hopeful Iraqis
Bloomberg, Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Related Projects: THE FUTURE OF BABYLON
The State Department has invested $700,000 in the Future of Babylon Project, a joint project of the World Monuments Fund and Iraq’s State Board of Antiquities to work on a site management plan for Babylon.
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