Iran

The latest edition of our Dezeen Debate newsletter features a brick metro station in Tehran. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now. KA Architecture Studio designed an entrance to the Jahad Metro Plaza comprised of barrel-vaulted forms made from handmade bricks. Commenters were in awe of the structure. One found the “absence of exposed concrete with vaulted forms”

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Shid Architects has created a stripped-back eco-lodge in the village of Komehr, Iran, featuring a viewing platform, gathering spaces and sleeping areas erected in a cornfield. The Poonehzar eco-lodge occupies a site in an agricultural area on the edge of the village, which is located in the mountainous Sepidan County of Iran’s Fars province. Shid

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US studio Ahmadreza Schricker Architecture North has topped a 1920s beer factory in Tehran with a series of distinctive concrete roofs to create a contemporary art museum. Located in the city’s downtown district, the 1,700-square-metre Argo Factory is the first private art museum to be created in Iran’s capital since 1979. New York-based Ahmadreza Schricker Architecture North (ASA

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Architecture studio Hooba Design Group has completed a brick-clad office building in Tehran, with a scooped-out central void to bring natural light deep into the building. The Hitra Office and Commercial Building is located at a road intersection of the Valenjak neighbourhood of Iran’s capital, and combines two floors of glazed commercial space with five

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