been named after two failed attempts, two houses of the Stuttgart Weissenhof settlement of the architect Le Corbusier (1887-1965) World Heritage Site. The Unesco took on Sunday in Istanbul several of his buildings in seven countries to the World Heritage List on how the UN cultural organization announced.
“It is a great success for the whole of Baden-Württemberg,” said Nicole Hoffmeister Herb (CDU), Minister of Economic Affairs of the federal state. The buildings are a model for modern living styles and aesthetics. “We can be proud of the diverse cultural heritage.”
Stuttgart Mayor Fritz Kuhn (Green) called the Weissenhofsiedlung the Swiss-French architect as still exemplary. “Building Le Corbusier’s pulse, low-cost housing with innovative layouts and new materials, is leading and therefore needs to be an incentive for our architects and urban planners.”
The entire Weissenhofsiedlung with their still 11 of 33 originally preserved in their original cubic flat-roofed houses should remain at the center of the work of the cultural heritage, said the city of Stuttgart. Currently being prepared for development in cooperation with five other European Werkbund settlements of the 1920s and 1930s, an application for the European Heritage label.
The two Stuttgart houses have been the only nomination from Germany. The international application for receiving the Le Corbusier buildings had the committee previously declined twice. Originally, the current decision should fall on Saturday. The World Heritage Committee had its meeting but interrupted due to the attempted coup in Turkey.
criteria for recognition as World Heritage are “of outstanding universal value of the site and a management plan which ensures the preservation of heritage for future generations,” says Unesco. States with World Heritage sites undertake to protect and preserve for future generations. The Committee regularly reviewed the conservation status and asks for improvements when it is threatened “the outstanding universal value ‘.
Go to the Unesco World Heritage Committee includes 21 selected Parties to the World Heritage Convention. It decides each year on the enrollment of new cultural and natural sites in the list and on extension requests. Globally, among other things, the Pyramids of Giza in Egypt, the Acropolis of Athens and the Grand Canyon in the United States under special protection.
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