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Date: 
2015

World Monuments Fund Conservation at Qusayr ‘Amra

Qusayr ‘Amra is a magnificent bathhouse locat¬ed in the eastern badiya (steppe) of Jordan, 50 miles east of Amman along the road to Azraq. Currently, both natural and man-made factors threaten the site, requiring urgent action for its long-term, sustainable conservation, investigation, and man­...Read more
Country: 
Jordan
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Qusayr 'Amra
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Date: 
Winter 2003/2004

Butabu

Among the Batammaliba of Togo, the word butabu describes a process of moistening earth with water in preparation for building - the prefix and siffix bu referring to the earth and all that is associated with it. Wet earth construction is a complex art based on a sound knowledge of structure and the...Read more
Country: 
Ghana
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Larabanga Mosque
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Date: 
Winter 2005/2006

The Science of Saving Venice

In the old days of the Venetian Republic, the doge would board his golden barge on Ascension Day to be rowed out beyond the lagoon into the waters of the Adriatic. There, he would throw a consecrated ring into the sea, saying “Desponsamus te, mare,” (We wed thee, O sea). On the night of 3 November...Read more
Country: 
Italy
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Date: 
Winter 2004/2005

Two Cheers for London

This past December, two extraordinary mid-eighteenth-century lead sculp - tures from the historic Portuguese pal - ace of Queluz (see ICON, Spring 2004) returned to their native London where they are undergoing a dramatic restora - tion at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Cast by renowned British...Read more
Country: 
Portugal
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Queluz Palace Garden
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Date: 
Winter 2004/2005

Water Snakes and Killer Spiders

An extraordinary polychromed relief recently found within the Temple of the Moon—a massive ceremonial complex on Peru’s arid North Coast—is providing a window into the ceremonial life of the Moche, whose culture flourished in the early first millennium a.d in the many river valleys that crisscross...Read more
Country: 
Peru
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Huaca de la Luna
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Date: 
Winter 2006/2007

St. George's Hall, Liverpool

Described by the architectural historian Sir Nikolaus Pevsner as the greatest neoclassical building in the world, St. George’s Hall in Liverpool, England, had been a source of civic pride since its construction in the mid-nineteenth century, housing the city’s law courts, along with a town hall and...Read more
Country: 
United Kingdom
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St. George’s Hall
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Date: 
December 2014

2014 World Monuments Fund/Knoll Modernism Prize

The 2014 World Monuments Fund/Knoll Modernism Prize was awarded to the Finnish Committee for the Restoration of Viipuri Library with The Central City Alvar Aalto Library in Vyborg on December 1, 2014. This booklet describes the history of the building and the restoration project that saved it,...Read more
Country: 
Russia
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Viipuri Library
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Date: 
Fall 2014

Monumentum, Autumn 2014

Charities rarely stay the same, for they must respond to their own past, to present need and future opportunity. Staying vital has forever been this way: Mary Beard talks of human ritual as being “always a mixture of scrupulous attention to precedent, convenient amnesia, and the ‘invention of...Read more
Country: 
United Kingdom
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Easter Island (Rapa Nui)—Moai Conservation Project, Rock-Hewn Churches, The Mughal Gardens of Agra, Phnom Bakheng, Qianlong Garden Conservation Project, Farnese Aviaries, Quinta de Presa, Sulgrave Manor, Christ Church Cathedral and Former Slave Market Site, Ruins of the Former Cathedral Church of St. Michael, Coventry, Newstead Abbey, Deptford Dockyard and Sayes Court Garden, Battersea Power Station
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