Year: 1955

Cathédrale du Sacré-Cœur d’Alger

The cathédrale du Sacré-Cœur replaced the nineteenth-century cathedral of St. Philip. The cathedral is positioned on a hill in the centre of Algiers. It is approached via a series of steps and terraces and has a square ground plan. It is entirely co…

Sugden House

The developer was an engineer who worked for Ove Arup. The house does not disguise the coarse construction work on the inside, either: wood and brick. On the outside, it is also “modernist” (the refined industrial window profiles), “traditional”…

El Helicoide de la Roca Tarpeya

“El Helicoide de la Roca Tarpeya” in Caracas, Venezuela, would have been a spiral drive-in mall. Built between 1956 and 1960, El Helicoide’s construction flattened the hill “La Roca Tarpeya” into seven gradually decreasing terraces, surro…

Istituto Marchiondi Spagliardi

Viganò planned this gated institution for delinquent youths on the basis of a new pedagogic concept. Order is demonstrated by the building’s readily comprehensible inner logic and also by the fact that the materials used are plain to see and the pipi…

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To exhibit an important interchange of human values, over a span of time or within a cultural area of the world, on developments in architecture or technology, monumental arts, town-planning or landscape design. 474 iii
To bear a unique or at least exceptional testimony to a cultural tradition or to a civilization which is living or which has disappeared. 499 iv
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To be outstanding examples representing significant on-going ecological and biological processes in the evolution and development of terrestrial, fresh water, coastal and marine ecosystems and communities of plants and animals. 135 v
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To contain superlative natural phenomena or areas of exceptional natural beauty and aesthetic importance. 148 viii
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