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The campaign to preserve and restore <a href="/project/miami-marine-stadium">Miami Marine Stadium</a> 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. Back in the 1960s, when the stadium was built, a flat-topped barge with demountable band shell was pulled up in front of the 6,500-seat waterside grandstand for a variety of productions including concerts.

The restored synagogue was dedicated on April 5, 2011. As there is no Jewish population in Zamo?? now, the synagogue will not serve as a house of prayer. Rather, it will serve the needs of Jewish visitors to Zamo?? as well as its inhabitants.

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.

March 2011 marks the ten-year anniversary of the destruction of the colossal Buddhas in the Bamiyan Valley of Afghanistan.