This structure, and the nearby Palm House ( built 1884 ), have been restored ( using some surplus contemporary structural ironwork from Kew Gardens ) and this work attracted the Europa Nostra award for excellence in conservation architecture.

A contemporary botanic garden is a strictly protected natural urban green area where a managing organization creates landscaped gardens and holds documented collections of living plants and / or preserved plant accessions containing functional units of heredity of actual or potential value for purposes such as scientific research, education, public display, conservation, sustainable use, tourism and recreational activities, production of marketable plant-based products and services for improvement of human well-being.

Gehry's design features exhibition galleries, education and research space, a conservation laboratory, a center for contemporary Arab, Islamic and Middle Eastern culture, and a center for " art and technology ".

It aims to identify and reward architectural concepts that successfully address the needs and aspirations of Islamic societies in the fields of contemporary design, social housing, community development and improvement, restoration, reuse and area conservation, as well as landscape design and improvement of the environment.

The mission of the Nasher is be an international focal point and catalyst for the study, installation, conservation, and appreciation of modern and contemporary sculpture.

Under the accusation of " presentism " it is sometimes claimed that, with its genesis in the late 20th century environmentalism and conservation issues, environmental history is simply a reaction to contemporary problems, an " attempt to read late twentieth century developments and concerns back into past historical periods in which they were not operative, and certainly not conscious to human participants during those times ".

During its meetings, the IAC examines the full documentation of the item's description, origin, world significance, and contemporary state of conservation.

In those early days the Association appeared as radical in its aims as many contemporary conservation groups do today.

But the development of this industry is based on a policy of nature conservation and inheritance, whether it is precolombian, colonial or contemporary.

Grabar's group, like the contemporary Gorky Commission, was torn by a conflict of preservationists ( Grabar, Alexander Benois, Alexander Chayanov, Pyotr Baranovsky ) and " destroyers " ( David Shterenberg, Vladimir Tatlin ) and Grabar later complained that he had to offset two extremes, destruction of heritage and obstruction of avant-garde artists ( he was himself the " main exponent of conservation ").

The anti-slavery movement and other contemporary reforms and philanthropies were given leadership and financial undergirding by Arthur Tappan ( 1786-1865 ) and his younger brother, Lewis Tappan ( 1788-1873 ).

New Confucianism is an intellectual movement of Confucianism that began in the early 20th century in Republican China, and revived in post-Mao era contemporary China.

* Takashi Murakami ( 村上隆 ), contemporary artist and founder of the Superflat movement

* Neo-Futurism, a contemporary theater movement

It has been suggested that they emerged as part of a Jewish folklore movement parallel with the contemporary German folklore movement and that they may have been based on Jewish oral tradition.

Hildegard has also become a figure of reverence within the contemporary New Age movement, mostly due to her holistic and natural view of healing, as well as her status as a mystic.

Some contemporary players of these modern electric harps, especially solid body and minimalist design instruments, have been able to add the advantage of movement on stage into their musical performance.

In 1964 he was included in the exhibition Post-Painterly Abstraction curated by Clement Greenberg which traveled the country and helped to firmly establish Color Field painting as an important new movement in the contemporary art of the 1960s.

Symbols of several contemporary Pagan faiths: Slavic Neopaganism | Slavic • Celtic Neopaganism | Celtic • Germanic Neopaganism | Germanic Hellenic Polytheistic Reconstructionism | Hellenism • Wicca • Roman polytheistic reconstructionism | Roman Goddess movement | Goddess Worship ( Wicca ) • Kemetism • Semitic Neopaganism | Semitic

With the rise of the counterculture during the 1960s, Paganism continued to adapt and spread, particularly throughout the U. S., where radical new approaches emerged that dealt with contemporary social issues and interests, such as Neoshamanism, the Goddess movement and the Radical Faeries.

Another pivotal belief in the contemporary Pagan movement is that of animism.

The most prominent and widespread moral code to be found in the contemporary pagan movement is the Wiccan Rede, which states that those who follow it should " do as you will, as long as you harm none ".

However, over time, use of the valved instruments became standard, indeed universal, until the revival of older instruments in the contemporary movement towards authentic performance ( sometimes known as " historically informed performance ").

* Neopaganism: A movement by modern people to revive nature-worshipping, pre-Christian religions or other nature-based spiritual paths, frequently also incorporating contemporary liberal values at odds with ancient paganism.

A leading scholar of the Kabbalah, Moshe Idel ( Hasidism: Between Ecstasy and Magic, SUNY, 1995, pp. 17 – 18 ), ascribes this doctrine to the kabbalistic system of Rabbi Moses Cordovero ( 1522 – 1570 ) and in the eighteenth century, Rabbi Israel ben Eliezer, the Baal Shem Tov, founder of the Hasidic movement, as well as his contemporary, Rabbi Menahem Mendel, the Maggid of Bar.

" Postmodernist " describes part of a movement ; " Postmodern " places it in the period of time since the 1950s, making it a part of contemporary history.

* Progressive Christianity, a movement within contemporary Protestantism

The self-produced documentary If It Ain't Cheap, It Ain't Punk explores the contemporary DIY punk rock movement through footage from the 2006 Plan-It-X Fest put on by Plan-It-X Records in Bloomington, Indiana.

Scott's positive portrayal of Judaism, which reflects his humanity and concern for religious toleration, also coincided with a contemporary movement for the Emancipation of the Jews in England.

But the best and certainly a more nearly contemporary analogy is with Rosa Parks ' refusal to move to the back of the bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in December 1955, which sparked the modern civil rights movement.

They were committed broadly to the abolition of corruption within the Parliamentary and judicial process, toleration of religious differences, the translation of law into the common tongue and, arguably, something that could be considered democracy in its modern form-arguably the first time contemporary democratic ideas had been formally framed and adopted by a political movement.

* The modern art movement revolutionized art and culture and set the stage for both Modernism and its counterpart postmodern art as well as other contemporary art practices.

The American Arts and Crafts movement was the aesthetic counterpart of its contemporary political philosophy, progressivism.

Even so astute a commentator as Harold Clurman of The Nation has said that `` Waiting For Godot '' is `` the concentrate of the contemporary European mood of despair ''.

Though there has been some avant garde indication that contemporary furniture might go back to the boxy look of the '20's and '40's, two manufacturers chose to take the approach of the sophisticated, but warm look in contemporary.

The house has been swept so clean that contemporary man has been left with no means, or at best with wholly inadequate means, for dealing with his experience of spirit.

Most of what is said about his great men of history has already been said, and what has not is largely irrelevant to the contemporary scene.

As a whole it has been considered extremely valuable, being a clear, comprehensive and in general impartial account of events by a contemporary.

The contrasting view that " Achaeans ", as understood through Homer, are " a name without a country ", an ethnos created in the Epic tradition, has modern supporters among those who conclude that " Achaeans " were redefined in the fifth century, as contemporary speakers of Aeolic Greek.

The complete opera has rapidly entered the repertoire as one of the landmarks of contemporary music and, like Wozzeck, remains a consistent audience draw.

The fact that Christendom has periodically grafted instrumental music into the worship service probably obscures, for contemporary adherents, the long, general and conscientious teaching of a cappella.

One of the most famous contemporary buildings by an anthroposophical architect is ING House, an ING Bank building in Amsterdam, which has received several awards for its ecological design and approach to a self-sustaining ecology as an autonomous building and example of sustainable architecture.

Since the development of cannon, the word " artillery " in practice has largely meant cannon ; in contemporary usage it usually refers to shell-firing guns, howitzers, mortars, and rockets.

An interesting memoir of Abdallatif, written by himself, has been preserved with additions by Ibn Abu-Osaiba ( Ibn Abi Usaibia ), a contemporary.

Nora proposes asking him for a favor, to which Rank reveals that he has entered the terminal stage of tuberculosis of the spine ( a contemporary euphemism for congenital syphilis ), and that he has always been secretly in love with her.

Afrobeat has profoundly influenced important contemporary producers and musicians like Brian Eno and David Byrne, who credit Fela Kuti as an essential muse.

Another Kiowa beadworker, Teri Greeves has won top honors for her beadwork, which consciously integrates both traditional and contemporary motifs, such as beaded dancers on Converse high-tops.

While there has been a fair amount of scientific research on the psychology of older board games ( e. g., chess, go, mancala ), less has been done on contemporary board games such as Monopoly, Scrabble, and Risk.

One account has it that the cannonball flew between the Captain-General ’ s legs before hitting the unfortunate colonel, whose torso fell at Marlborough ’ s feet – a moment subsequently depicted in a lurid set of contemporary playing cards.

Bronze has been used in the manufacture of various types of medals for centuries, and are known in contemporary times for being awarded to the second-runner up in sporting competitions and other events.

Sampel explains that canon law has significant influence in contemporary society.

It has been designed to provide a more aggressive, contemporary look to the logo while making it more three-dimensional for ever-increasing digital use.

Neo-classical liberalism has continued into the contemporary era, with writers such as Robert Nozick.