ICOMOS Heritage Alert - Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA) Old Campus

ICOMOS is issuing a worldwide Heritage Alert, our most consequential expressional of concern, to amplify awareness of the threat to the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA) Old Campus and draw urgent attention to the eminent risk of loss of the internationally significant buildings that make up the cultural landscape designed by Louis I. Kahn with his team of Indian architects, landscape architects and engineers.

Heritage Alert: In situ preservation of antiquities at the Venizelos Metro Station in Thessaloniki, Greece

The 20th ICOMOS General Assembly held in December 2020 adopts a resolution concerning the in situ preservation of antiquities at the Venizelos Metro Station in Thessaloniki, Greece.

Dowload the letter sent to the Hellenic authorities and the full Heritage Alert.

Photo Credits: Flickr/Konstantinos Stampoulis

Heritage Alert: ICOMOS Lebanon - Statement of Concern on the Destruction of Cultural Heritage

ICOMOS International invites you to read and share the Statement of Concern by ICOMOS Lebanon regarding the Commemorative steles of Nahr el-Kalb, Mount Lebanon:

Heritage Alert: Palacio Bellas Artes, San Sebastian, Spain

29 July 2022 – Update: Palacio Bellas Artes

ICOMOS regrets to report a negative outcome for the Palacio Bellas Artes. Unfortunately, the development proposal to convert the Palacio Bellas Artes into a hotel - including the demolition of the dome and the interior, and the construction of a non-compatible addition - was implemented. Although this Heritage Alert inspired a debate among citizens, the Palacio Bellas Artes lost its authenticity due to the irreversible effects of the development proposal.

Heritage Alert: Pont des Trous – Tournai, Belgium

Heritage Alert Pont BMerckx In August 2018, ICOMOS was approached by a Belgian civil society organisation, in the context of our ICOMOS Heritage Alerts procedure, with regards to the situation of the Pont des Trous in the city of Tournai (Tournai includes two World Heritage sites – Belfry of Tournai/Belfries of Belgium and France and Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai). The Pont des Trous itself is situated in the buffer zone of the Belfry of Tournai.