ICOMOS Japan Prize 2016 Winners Announced

On December 10, the winners of the ICOMOS Japan Prize 2016 were announced. The ICOMOS Japan Prize aims to encourage the preservation and conservation of structures, groups of historic buildings, cultural landscapes, monuments and historic ruins as well as historic sites. The winners were SAITŌ Kiyohide (Technical Advisor to Archaeological Institute of Kashihara, Nara Prefecture), who conducted excavation in Palmyra, Syria, for many years and promoted the conservation and restoration of cultural heritages threatened by civil war; and NPO Red Brick Club Maizuru, which had been conducting urban development utilizing brick warehouses in Maizuru City, Kyoto Prefecture, as well as Maizuru City. (Japanese)