Contemporary Iranian Architecture: Paradox & Continuity

The past 40 years have witnessed radical changes in Iran, veering from the all-out modernizing zeal of the late Shah to the theocratic regime of the Ayatollah

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Office dA - Nader Tehrani in USA

Office dA

Time and again over the course of the 20th century, architects embarked on that most bizarre of research exercises: the attempt to identify scientific elements,

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Rai Studio, Pouya Khazaeli Parsa in Iran

RAI Studio

The idea of the ideal is no stranger in Iran. Indeed Iranian culture seems in various ways drawn toward the prospect of perfection. The wider world, in which mo

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Ravensbourne College

Foreign Office Architects

Located on the Greenwich peninsula, a finger of land jutting out into a bend in the river Thames, Ravensbourne City College is part of an urban development area

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Apartment No.1

Architecture by Collective Terrain

This mixed function, multi-storey building in the ancient town of Mahallat, central Iran, was designed by Ramin Mehdizadeh of the AbCT (Architecture by Collecti

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Chaparral Hall Science Building

Yazdani Studio

The Chaparral Science Hall, the new Biology Department of California’s Northridge State University caters for teaching and research activities, including stat

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Mellat Park Cineplex

Fluid Motion Architects

Located on the edge of extensive urban parklands in Tehran and with superb views of the ring of distant mountains, the Mellat Park Cineplex is a multipurpose bu

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Max Gluskin House Department of Economics, University of Toronto

Hariri Pontarini Architects

The University of Toronto’s Department of Economics has been significantly extended with the addition of new offices, conference and seminar rooms, as well as

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Sistan and Baluchestan University Restaurant

New Wave Architecture

The project by New Wave Architecture (Lida Almassian and Shahin Heidari) for the self-serve restaurant at the University of Sistan and Baluchistan - located in

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Barth realizing interiors

The Alto Adige firm of barth based at Bressanone has been active in the interior design sector for over half a century. Born as a family business of artistic w

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UNA Hotel Modena

The new UNA Hotel Modena is located just outside Modena in the small town of Baggiovara, a once rural district whose recent haphazard development has led to a s

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Pergotenda Move - Protection, comfort and movement

Corradi’s outdoor lines are the fruit of careful research into materials and design. End-user needs are catered for by these comfortable, long-lasting, pe

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VELUX solar tunnel by Lovegrove - Natural light forges ahead

For years Velux has been researching into products combining technological innovation and sustainable use of resources, besides maximising the use of daylight i

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Wall rupture - Light meets matter

Soft Architecture is the new Flos collection - an environmentally friendly virtuoso system pooling architecture, light, technology and design. Out of research

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Airabesc supreme at OSRAM HUB - Light in a space of its own

Osram Hub, the new Osram showroom recently inaugurated in Milan, in intended as a place where designers, architects and customers can meet, dialogue and be show

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B!klimax+ Integrated heating-cooling system

B!klimax+ RDZ is a heating and cooling system set into ceilings and walls so as to take advantage of such surfaces to exchange heat by radiation. These radiator

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TermoK8® - An upgrade that saves energy

The new regulations on energy efficiency in buildings (D.lgs. 192/2005, becoming D.lgs. 311/2006) are prompted by European Directive 2002/91 and introduce new l

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Fram Museet

The Fram Museet in Oslo is a museum devoted to the history of Norwegian polar exploration. It features one ship, the Fram, which carried three major expeditions

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Terminal 8.30

TTerminal 8.30 is a management centre designed by Studio Interdesign for a strategic site near Verona’s Valerio Catullo airport and motorway hub. The architec

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Smart Jung Clear design for intuitive operation

La tecnologia domotica KNX si arricchisce sempre più di nuove funzionalità. In aggiunta al controllo delle funzioni installate nei vari ambienti,

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KME Design - Copper for interiors

KME Design, the new collection of copper and copper alloy surfaces being presented at Milan’s Fuorisalone, is KME’s debut to the world of interior d

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The Plan 051 [06-2011]

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