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Syrian Architecture News Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle, Damascus, Syria picture © AKAA / Alhadi Albaridi Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle Syria - 3 May 2013 This building has been shortlisted for the Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 2013. Syrian Architecture Key Syrian Building Project: Childrens Discovery Centre, Damascus 2008- Henning Larsens Tegnestue with Martha Schwartz Landscape Architects Syrian Architecture Article about Syria by architect Gordon Murray Syrian Architecture picture from architect "I arrived in Damascus on a cool spring night in 2009 via Air France, one of the few regular carriers into the city and a reminder of that country’s historical relationship with the Islamic edges of the Mediterranean. Unaware of the topography of the city in darkness I stared in awe at the myriad dots of lights in the northern sky. Only revealed in daylight as a thousand dwellings clinging to the steep slope of Jebel Qassioun mountain range which forms the northern rim of the bowl that is Damascus. picture from architect To the south the Jebel Druze and the Golan Heights beyond. Every urban condition is here in layers of space and time. Ottoman, alongside French Colonial and mid 20th century modernism alongside French and Soviet housing systems from the 1970’s. Damascus is essential for anyone attempting an analysis of the human urban condition – the citizen’s relationship with their city. As the longest occupied city in history it exhibits the scars, few of the areas of destruction satisfactorily restored with any eye to historical accuracy. Yet that is not its purpose. Damascus is a city of history not in history." More Syrian Building projects online soon

Buildings in countries adjacent to Syria

Lebanese Buildings

picture from architects

Jordan Architecture

picture © Foster + Partners

Israel Buildings

image : Archivio Fuksas

Turkish Buildings

photograph : Thomas Mayer, Cemal Emden

Iraq Buildings

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Syrian Building Projects welcome

Middle East Architecture

Buildings in countries close to Syria

Saudia Arabian Buildings

image : UAP

Egyptian Architecture

image from Zaha Hadid Architects

Kuwait Buildings

Yemen Architecture



School Buildings

University Buildings

Key Building in the Middle East

Kuwait National Assembly
1982
Architect: Jørn Utzon
Architectural competition 1972

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