BOSTON, Nov. 14, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Iron Mountain
Incorporated (NYSE: IRM), the global leader in storage and
information management services, and CyArk, a non-profit
organization that digitally records, archives and helps preserve
world heritage sites, today announced a new preservation project in
Mexico City to digitally capture
and preserve the Palacio de Bellas Artes (Palace of Fine Arts).
This project is the first to be executed by Iron Mountain and CyArk
in Mexico, and it will support the
Mexican Secretary of Culture's goal to preserve the city's
historical monuments from natural and man-made threats.
Constructed from 1904 to 1934, the Palacio de Bellas Artes has
been a part of the World Heritage listing, "Historic Center of
Mexico City," since 1987. It is
the first National Theatre of Mexico, has presented exhibitions of
Frida Kahlo's works and concerts by
Luciano Pavarotti, and regularly hosts performances by Ballet
Folklórico de México Compania Nacional de Opera de Bellas Artes and
the National Symphonic Orchestra. The site features an exterior
that is primarily Neoclassical and Art
Nouveau, while the interior is primarily Art Deco, and
contains murals by Diego Rivera, a
prominent Mexican painter, and David Alfaro
Siqueiros, a Mexican social realist painter.
The Agenda Digital de Cultura (Digital Agenda for Culture)
within Mexico's Secretary of
Culture sought help in documenting several of the principal
monuments within the city, including the Palacio de Bellas Artes.
Specifically selected for its cultural significance and critical
need for preservation, the Palace's immense weight and the city's
vulnerability to earthquakes were two additional factors in
choosing this site.
"The Palacio de Bellas Artes is an important piece of cultural
history to the people of Mexico
City," says John Ristevski,
CEO, CyArk. "With the exquisite architectural features of the
building, to the art, mural and performances it has housed, we are
very excited to play a part in preserving this institution."
For the Palacio des Bellas Artes project, the CyArk preservation
team used a combination of digital recording technologies -
including LiDAR, a technique that uses lasers to measure the
distance to an object – to digitally capture and map that location
in 3D and high-resolution digital imagery. By combining
photogrammetry and LiDAR data, CyArk can create a 3D surface model
of the Palace that contains both very accurate geometry as well as
high quality information on interior features and texture. Some of
these notable features include a one-of-a-kind stage curtain
crafted by Tiffany's in New York,
a decorative arch above the stage, and the Palace's historical
theater.
Following that capture process, the digital copies are preserved
in a secure Iron Mountain facility, ensuring a digital record of
the structure exists for posterity. CyArk will also produce
engineering drawing sets comprised of plans, sections and
elevations of key areas within the Palace that provide a record of
the site as it exists today and assists site managers in the
ongoing maintenance of the building.
"Our role as a trusted guardian is a global one we activate for
our customers - protecting and preserving what's most important to
them," said Guillermo Guerra,
general manager, Iron Mountain Mexico. "This role also gives us the
opportunity to extend that expertise into the communities where we
live and work through our partnership with CyArk. The Palacio de
Bellas Artes is emblematic of our Mexican culture and we are proud
to help ensure its digital blueprint and beauty is available to
everyone."
Iron Mountain is proud to support CyArk as part of the company's
philanthropic focus on supporting non-profit organizations that
preserve and provide access to our shared cultural and historical
heritage. Since 2015 Iron Mountain has partnered with 14
organizations and contributed more than $2.8M worth of financial support.
About CyArk
CyArk is a nonprofit organization founded
in 2003 to digitally record, archive and share the world's cultural
heritage and ensure that these places continue to inspire wonder
and curiosity for decades to come. Since inception we have recorded
over 200 monuments on all seven continents. We assist those who
work to manage and preserve these sites by providing engineering
drawings and detailed maps to assist in critical conservation work
and active management. We archive the data using state of the art
processes to ensure that this data continues to be available in a
disaster recovery scenario, tomorrow or decades in the future. And
we strive to share this data in powerful ways, including truly
immersive experiences that convey the power of these places,
transporting users that may never have a chance to experience them
and inspiring others to make the journey.
About Iron Mountain
Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE:
IRM), founded in 1951, is the global leader for storage and
information management services. Trusted by more than 225,000
organizations around the world, and with a real estate network of
more than 85 million square feet across more than 1,400 facilities
in over 50 countries, Iron Mountain stores and protects billions of
valued assets, including critical business information, highly
sensitive data, and cultural and historical artifacts. Providing
solutions that include information management, digital
transformation, secure storage, secure destruction, as well
as data centers, cloud services and art storage and logistics, Iron
Mountain helps customers lower cost and risk, comply with
regulations, recover from disaster, and enable a more digital way
of working. Visit www.ironmountain.com for more information.
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Kacey
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Christian T.
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CyArk
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Iron Mountain
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805-354-9699
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617-535-8721
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Kacey.Hadick@cyark.org
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christian.potts@ironmountain.com
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