{"id":2346,"date":"2025-12-25T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theboudoirvixen.com\/?p=2346"},"modified":"2025-12-25T15:25:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T15:25:48","slug":"narratives-of-syrian-modernism-rediscovering-the-center-for-marine-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.theboudoirvixen.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/25\/narratives-of-syrian-modernism-rediscovering-the-center-for-marine-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Narratives of Syrian Modernism: Rediscovering the Center for Marine Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.archdaily.com\/1027556\/narratives-of-syrian-modernism-rediscovering-the-center-for-marine-research\/67c55aba79ebd40188722444-narratives-of-syrian-modernism-rediscovering-the-center-for-marine-research-photo\" rel=\"attachment\" title=\"featured_image\"><br \/>\n    <img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Center for Marine Research \/ Bourhan Tayara. Image \u00a9 AMASyria 2025. Photo by Ram Attaf\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"Center for Marine Research \/ Bourhan Tayara. Image \u00a9 AMASyria 2025. Photo by Ram Attaf\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.theboudoirvixen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/rediscovering-syrian-modernism-the-center-for-marine-research_14.jpg\"><br \/>\n  <\/a><br \/>\n  <small>Center for Marine Research \/ Bourhan Tayara. Image \u00a9 AMASyria 2025. Photo by Ram Attaf<\/small><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.archdaily.com\/country\/syria\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Syria <\/a>is emerging from over a decade of conflict at the time of writing, it is an opportunity to rediscover its architectural gems. Just to the north of the country&#8217;s principal port city of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Latakia?utm_medium=website&amp;utm_source=archdaily.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Latakia <\/a>is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.archdaily.com\/tag\/modernism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Modernist <\/a>creation that is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amasyria.com\/en\/the-center-for-marine-research\/?utm_medium=website&amp;utm_source=archdaily.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Center for Marine Research<\/a>. Its pyramidal structure is situated on a prominent headland surrounded by sea on three sides. To the east is a bay with hotels and beaches while to the north and west is the open <a href=\"https:\/\/www.archdaily.com\/tag\/mediterranean-sea\">Mediterranean Sea<\/a> reaching Turkey and Cyprus beyond. Despite its importance both as a research institution and as a piece of architecture, it lies abandoned and isolated today.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.archdaily.com\/1027556\/narratives-of-syrian-modernism-rediscovering-the-center-for-marine-research\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Center for Marine Research \/ Bourhan Tayara. Image \u00a9 AMASyria 2025. Photo by Ram Attaf [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theboudoirvixen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2346"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theboudoirvixen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theboudoirvixen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theboudoirvixen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theboudoirvixen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2346"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.theboudoirvixen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2349,"href":"http:\/\/www.theboudoirvixen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2346\/revisions\/2349"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theboudoirvixen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theboudoirvixen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theboudoirvixen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theboudoirvixen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}