UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee has announced the inscription of four new sites on the World Heritage List. They are: the transnational serial site of The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier as an ‘Outstanding Contribution to the Modern Movement’ (for his works in Argentina, Belgium, France, Germany, India, Japan, Switzerland); Antigua Naval Dockyard and related archaeological sites, which consists of Georgian-style naval buildings and structures on the Caribbean islands of Antigua and Barbuda; The Pampulha Modern Ensemble in Brazil, a Niemeyer-designed cultural and leisure centre which was the centre of a visionary garden city project created in 1940 in Belo Horizonte; and Khangchendzonga National Park in India, located at the heart of the Himalayan range in northern India.
20 July 2016.
