MODERN ICONS UNDER THREAT

摘要

The triumvirate of war, aggressive development and global warming is, says the World Monuments Fund (WMF), conspiring to deprive us of some of the world's finest architecture.rnThe 2008 WMF watch-list of 100 endangered sites (revealed on 7 June), illustrates that buildings as diverse as Scott's Hut in Antarctica, the Church of the Holy Nativity in Bethlehem and even Machu Picchu in Peru are threatened by human folly.