The World Monuments Fund (WMF) launched its first Instagram campaign [...] to draw attention to the plight of the world’s Modern buildings, an increasing number of which are at risk because of the lack of regulations or political will needed to protect them.
The fund kicks off the programme with a list of 30 sites nominated by architects, experts and students posted on its website and is appealing to the public to add to this list by submitting nominations via Instagram.
— theartnewspaper.com
"The list will be sent to an advisory council formed of architects, including Annabelle Selldorf, designers and critics, who will advise the WMF on the next phase of the Modern Century programme."
The sites included on the initial list of 30 nominees are:
Hall of Nations (pictured in the cover photo above, demolished on April 23, 2017), New Delhi, India
Thompson Center (State of Illinois Building), Chicago, Illinois, USA (Photo: Mobilus In Mobili, Flickr)
Algiers Polytechnic School of Architecture and Urbanism, Algiers, Algeria
Hiraoka City Hall, Hiraoka, Japan
Honduras National Congress, Tegucigalpa, Honduras
SESC Pompéia, Sao Paulo, Brazil (Photo: Markus Lanz, Flickr)
Sirius Building, Sydney, Australia
Alexandria Zoo, Alexandria, Egypt
South Humber Park Pavilion, Toronto, Canada
Spomen Dom, Kolašin, Montenegro (Photo: Boban Scepanovic)
Restaurante Panorâmico de Monsanto, Lisbon, Portugal
Scala Theater, Bangkok, Thailand
Painted Desert Community Complex, Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona, USA
Namazee Villa, Tehran, Iran (Photo: Gio Ponti Archives)
Milton Lee Olive Park, Chicago, Illionis
Baghdad Gymnasium, Baghdad, Iraq
Pabellón de los Hexágonos, Madrid, Spain
Park Hill Flats, Sheffield, UK (Photo: Louise Hutchinson)
Nat Mauk Technical High School Faculty Hostel, Yangon, Myanmar
Villa Princiere, Siam Reap, Cambodia
St. Peter’s Seminary, Cardross, Scotland
Sacré Coeur Cathedral, Algiers, Algeria (Photo: Ps2613, Wikimedia Commons)
Hôtel du Lac, Tunis, Tunisia
Al Sawaber Complex, Kuwait City, Kuwait
Hotel Ponce Intercontinental, Ponce, Puerto Rico (Photo: Josué Ortiz)
Breda Department Store, Opava, Czech Republic
Capannone ex Fabbrica Perfosfati, Portogruaro, Italy
Asmara City, Asmara, Eritrea (Photo: David Stanley, Wikimedia Commons)
The Chapel of St. Joseph Technical High School, Taitung County, Taiwan
Baghdad Central Post Office Building, Baghdad, Iraq
Additional sites deserving of protection can be nominated by the public until May 25 on Instagram by using the hashtag #moderncentury and tagging @worldmonumentsfund.
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Great Initiative!!
We Just lost Hall of Nations from my city :( . We should do everything possible to spread awareness and protect modern architecture . We should make sure what happened in Delhi,India recently doesn't happen anywhere else.
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