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World Monuments FundLatest Stories

It Takes Two to Tango

The World Monuments Fund and Global Heritage Fund are creating a “strategic affiliation” to protect cultural heritage sites around the world

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The Long Road to Recovery

Daily digest: Remembering Mike Davis, New-York Historical Society archives Hurricane Sandy Design Competition, and more

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Monumental Work

World Monuments Fund responds to the war in Ukraine with preservation initiatives

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Going the Extra Mile

Design idea competition aims to elevate Alabama’s Africatown as a major cultural heritage tourism destination

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All Aboard

Daily digest: New renderings drop for D.C.’s reimagined Union Station, Philadelphia’s Shofuso House ransacked by vandals, and more

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Aria Building

Daily digest: Heatherwick Studio debuts a “tropical opera house,” a fund for rehabilitating Ukrainian heritage sites, and more

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The Time Is Now

The 2022 World Monuments Watch identifies 25 at-risk cultural sites in urgent need of preservation

exterior of a historic five and dime store in san antonio, future home of the alamo museum
Will There Be A Basement?

Once-endangered San Antonio Woolworth’s will be converted into an Alamo museum

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Healing the Scars

World Monuments Fund shares conservation triumphs in Yemen’s Old City of Taiz

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Khmer Kibosh

Cambodian government blocks mega-resort development near Angkor

Exterior of an 18th century Chinese pavilion
Forbidden no Longer

Selldorf Architects to design an Interpretation Center in China’s Forbidden City

Photo of the restored Karl Marx School
History Repeats Itself

Karl Marx School wins the 2018 WMF/Knoll Modernism Prize

Monumental Memories

World Monuments Fund announces 25 threatened cultural heritage sites of 2018

Friends of the High Line President selected to lead World Monuments Fund

Culture at Risk: World Monuments Fund Watch List Includes Palisades, FLW’s Taliesin

Slideshow: Zonnestraal Sanatorium Saved From Ruin

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