Al Zaim Secondary School in Suwayrah

Notes

The school was actually built on a piece of land offered by Abdel Karim Qassem, one of the founders of the Rebublic of Iraq and its first prime minister.
Here, Kahtan Awni applies Le Corbusier's five points of architecture: the building partially stands on pilotis, allowing a free designing of the different floors. The windows are horizontal, cut along the whole length of the east (front) and west (rear) façades and the roof is flat.
The school hall is distinguished with its barrel vault. An underground tunnel leads to a library located accross the street.

In his writing about this school, Khaled Sultany credits Awni for bringing such modern architecture to remote areas outside of Baghdad where its proliferation was understandable.

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