Ateliers Lion Associés   Syria   The Charles de Gaulle School was conceived as a garden in which buildings rise, and where the spaces are as important as the structures. The transformation of this dry site of the Damascene district of Mezze into a lush garden aimed to have a meaning

The Guardian   Rowan Moore   From Aleppo to Palmyra, many of the country’s architectural treasures have been reduced to rubble, but restoration has begun...

Luis Fernández-Galiano   War damage leaves resilient ruins. We use the term ‘urbicide’ to refer to the deliberate destruction of cities to wreck the physical resources and the morale of the opponent, but contemporary metropolises seldom perish. Many ancient cities were unabl

The raging cruelty waged by the Islamic State’s henchmen on its prisoners and population of the regions it occupies has been eclipsing the brutality of their attacks on the architectural and artistic footprints of the past, but these latter actions a