Every two years since 1996, the World Monuments Watch has focused global attention on cultural heritage sites around the world that are facing such dangers and that illuminate current issues in the field of heritage preservation.Read more
Chirag Dilli is named for the much-revered Sufi mystic, Nasiruddin Mahmud, Roshan Chiragh-e-Dehli (‘The Illuminated Lamp of Delhi’), who came to Delhi in the early fourteenth century and was a disciple of Nizamuddin Auliya, and later became his successor. Along with Khirki village, south-west of...Read more
Bafut Palace is located in the heart of the Bafut kingdom in northwest Cameroon. The palace comprises over 50 buildings arranged around a shrine, which are used by the Fon, his wives, and the royal court. The entire site is surrounded by a sacred forest. Included on UNESCO’s...Read more
Following the inclusion of Lima Historic Center on the 2008 Watch, World Monuments Fund initiated a pilot conservation project at Casa de las Columnas, once part of a sixteenth century convent. A traveling exhibition featuring some of Lima’s extraordinary, yet endangered, architectural heritage was...Read more
In 2008 and 2010, a group of twelve churches on the island of Lesvos, Greece were included on the World Monuments Watch. Over two summers, in 2010 and 2011, two teams of specialists and historic preservation graduate students undertook a preservation study of the Katholikon of Moni Perivolis...Read more
Una forma de intervención singular en el continente, en el campo de la conservación y restauración de monumentos, se lleva adelante en el Templo de San Pedro Apóstol de Andahuaylillas, de la provincia de Quispicanchi, bajo el lema de «abierto por obras», la acción se viene llevando desde el año...Read more
In April 2010, three months after the devastating earthquake in Haiti, a World Monuments Fund team traveled to Port-au-Prince to undertake an assessment of the historic Gingerbread House district. With their intricate ornamentation, these turn-of-the-century structures are icons of Haiti...Read more
The 2010 World Monuments Fund/Knoll Modernism Prize was awarded to Bierman Henket Architecten and Wessel de Jonge Architecten for their exemplary restoration of the Zonnestraal Sanatorium (designed 1926-28; completed 1931), a little-known but iconic modern structure in Hilversum, the Netherlands.Read more