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When Raj Rewal won a competition to design the Hall of Nations Building, in celebration of the 25th anniversary of India’s independence in 1972, no one would have expected that his masterwork would be threatened with a wrecking ball just 44 years later. In 1972, Raj Rewal won a competition to design the Hall of Nations Building in Mumbai, India, in celebration of the 25th anniversary of the nation's independence. Only 44 years later, Rewal's masterwork is threatened with a wrecking ball.

In November 2016, WMF organized a workshop in Yangon to educate the public about the dangers of asbestos. WMF consultant Ken Takahasi, Professor of Environmental Epidemiology at the University of Occupational & Environmental Health in Japan and the keynote speaker at the workshop, shares his experience in this blog.

The Royal Opera House of Mumbai, a historic structure that was abandoned in the 1990s, was reopened to the public in 2016.

The forts of Panama were originally built as part of a commercial shipping route during the mercantilist period of the Spanish colonization of the Americas. WMF's Norma Barbacci traveled to Panama to visit some of the forts on the nation’s Caribbean coast.