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Lebanon loses defender of heritage architecture Lady Cochrane (from injuries in Beirut explosion)
https://news.yahoo.com/lebanon-loses-defender-heritage-architecture-191121620.html
Damaged windows are seen at Sursock Palace (1860) following the colossal port explosion in the Lebanese capital Beirut
ANWAR AMRO
August 31, 2020, 3:11 PM EDT·2 mins read
A veteran advocate of the arts and Lebanon's cultural heritage, Yvonne Sursock Cochrane died Monday aged 98, four weeks after the devastating Beirut blast in which she was injured.
Born into a wealthy Greek Orthodox family -- famed for their Sursock Museum -- and married to an Irish nobleman, Lady Cochrane died on the eve of the centenary of Lebanon, friends and family said on Facebook.
As head of the Association for the Protection of the Sites and Ancient Homes of Lebanon (APSAD), she devoted her life to the preservation of her country's rich architectural heritage.
She had labelled the capital's chaotic and profit-driven reconstruction after its devastating 1975-1990 civil war as little more than an "archaeological massacre".
"Beirut, once a joy of the Mediterranean, has been turned into a junkyard," she said of the decade that followed the war.
But she voiced confidence that Beirut would once again become "the garden of the Middle East".
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Damaged windows are seen at Sursock Palace (1860) following the colossal port explosion in the Lebanese capital Beirut
ANWAR AMRO
August 31, 2020, 3:11 PM EDT·2 mins read
A veteran advocate of the arts and Lebanon's cultural heritage, Yvonne Sursock Cochrane died Monday aged 98, four weeks after the devastating Beirut blast in which she was injured.
Born into a wealthy Greek Orthodox family -- famed for their Sursock Museum -- and married to an Irish nobleman, Lady Cochrane died on the eve of the centenary of Lebanon, friends and family said on Facebook.
As head of the Association for the Protection of the Sites and Ancient Homes of Lebanon (APSAD), she devoted her life to the preservation of her country's rich architectural heritage.
She had labelled the capital's chaotic and profit-driven reconstruction after its devastating 1975-1990 civil war as little more than an "archaeological massacre".
"Beirut, once a joy of the Mediterranean, has been turned into a junkyard," she said of the decade that followed the war.
But she voiced confidence that Beirut would once again become "the garden of the Middle East".
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Cross gently, m'Lady.
