WMF 2010 Watchlist - Endangered 20th Century Monuments
By: P.Ling on 11 03, 2009
When the World Monuments Fund (WMF) announced its 2010 Watch list of endangered monuments, no one batted an eyelid. After all, monuments which are older than your great great grandpa are supposed to start cracking up.
But closer inspection reveals that 15 out of 93 monuments are actually from the 20th century.
Wiener Werkbundsiedlung - Vienna, Austria (1920s–1930s)
Sanatorium Joseph Lemaire - Overijse, Belgium (1937–1987)
New Gourna - Kurna, Egypt (1945)
Las Pozas - Xilitla, Mexico (1944)
Corozal Cemetery - Panama City, Panama (1914)
Tecton Buildings - Dudley Zoological Gardens, UK (1937)
Atlanta-Fulton Public Library - Atlanta, US (1980)
Miami Marine Stadium - Miami, US (1963)
Cultural Landscape - Hadley, US (1959)
Phillis Wheatley School - New Orleans, US (1954)
Taliesin - Spring Green, US (1911)
Taliesin West - Scotssdale, US (1937)
Merritt Parkway Bridges - Connecticut, US (1940)
Parque del Este - Caracas, Venezuela (1958)
Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, Central University of Venezuela - Caracas, Venezuela (1950s)
These places are too new to be on the WMF endangered monuments list. Also note that 11 out of the 15 belong to the Americas and 7 - almost half, are in the US.
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One Response
Just want to point out that the cultural landscape of Hadley is 17th century, not 20th century. I have no idea where you got the date of 1959–it’s nowhere on WMF’s site.