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Shahrzad Villa / Kanisavaran Office

Miwa Negoro — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 20:00:00 +0000

Nestled within the plains of Seyedabad, Damavand, this villa redefines the relationship between architecture and natural light, transforming it from a mere utility into the central protagonist of the living experience. The design orchestrates a daily performance where light, shadow, and form interact to mark the rhythm of time, offering a sanctuary of vibrant tranquility.

Shahrak Villa / Next Office–Alireza Taghaboni

Miwa Negoro — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 18:00:00 +0000

At first glance, the residential villa presents itself in continuity with the familiar typology of pitched-roof villas, aligning its overall silhouette with a well-known and recognizable architectural language. This deliberate choice allows the building to remain visually and conceptually connected to its surrounding context and to the conventional expectations associated with this type of dwelling. However, the project does not settle for mere repetition of an established model; instead, it seeks to extract new spatial possibilities from within this familiar framework. The approach is not based on rejecting the typology, but rather on reinterpreting and transforming it to generate a renewed architectural reading.

Lumen Residential Building / Next Office–Alireza Taghaboni

Miwa Negoro — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 22:00:00 +0000

We call the Lumen Residential Building the Corners Project because by manipulating and distorting the form in the corner of a building block and by using strategies such as filament, semi-transparency, and multi-layering, we could tame the intense light that exists in the main aspects of the building.

Sanofi Headquarters-Tehran / Persian Garden Studio

Miwa Negoro — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 18:00:00 +0000

Sanofi Offices in Tehran were entrusted to Persian Garden Studio in the interior design phase. This office space, with an area of 680 square meters, has been designed as a work, interaction, and meeting space with the idea of a hybrid space that emphasizes creating flexible and diverse workspaces.

The Poet's House / Next Office–Alireza Taghaboni

Miwa Negoro — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 20:00:00 +0000

The Poet's House by Next Office is the restoration and adaptive reuse of the former home of Iranian poet and dissident Ahmad Shamlou into a cultural center in downtown Tehran. While preserving the original brick façade and structural shell, the project introduces a spatial intervention along a second-floor wall bearing a handwritten poem by Shamlou. This element was extended into a conceptual and semi-structural backbone—transformed into a three-dimensional promenade that opens the house toward the city. Through this approach, the formerly private courtyard becomes a public open space that invites visitors into the life, thoughts, and legacy of the poet.

Sepand House of Culture and Art / Mohammadreza Samavati and Maryam Karimian

Pilar Caballero — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 19:00:00 +0000

Sepand House of Culture and Art represents the revival of a valuable residence from the 1960s, originally designed by Dr. Paknia. Once the home and medical office of Dr. Esmaeilzadeh, a cardiologist, the house has now been transformed from a place dedicated to physical care into a platform for culture and community.

Tehrani Taxi Terminal / Moloudi Architecture

Miwa Negoro — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 21:00:00 +0000

Initial Project Issues and Challenges include: Determining the Design Site Boundary, Limitations on Dedicated Terminal Space, Taxi Lines (8 Lines), Urgent Need for Roofing, Disorganization in Terminal Management, Lack of Visual Appeal and Boredom in the Urban Landscape and Scenery, and of course, Obstruction of the View of the Alborz Mountains (the Main Element of the Natural Landscape of this range).

No.13 Villa / AsNow Design & Construct

Miwa Negoro — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 19:00:00 +0000

Villa No. 13 is conceived around the interplay of open, semi-open, and enclosed spaces—a spatial composition structured by three exterior courtyards and an interior patio that together create an intermediary microclimate between inside and outside.

Shabtab Residential / STUDIO SAHEB

Miwa Negoro — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 21:00:00 +0000

In the dense urban fabric of Qeytarieh, Tehran, the Shabtab project emerged during a moment in time when the need for in-between spaces, soft thresholds between home and city, became more tangible than ever. Here, the balcony was no longer treated as a mere void puncturing the façade, but as the project's central core—as a continuous, powerful, and integrated object shaping the building's identity.

From Brazil to Ukraine: 7 Conceptual Learning Spaces Expanding the Boundaries of Education

Nour Fakharany — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In today's world, learning is no longer confined to classrooms or defined by formal education alone, it happens everywhere, in many forms. From music halls and sensory libraries to neurodiversity training centers and public schools reimagined, the spaces that support learning are becoming just as varied as the ways we learn. This selection of unbuilt educational projects submitted by the ArchDaily community reflects that shift, exploring how architecture can embrace difference, nurture curiosity, and create environments that support a broad spectrum of cognitive, emotional, and social needs.

Jahad Metro Plaza / KA architecture studio (Mohammad Khavarian)

Pilar Caballero — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 07:00:00 +0000

The metropolis of Tehran once featured a livable and low-density historic core, which, following the Iranian Revolution, underwent unbalanced and unchecked expansion due to population growth and centralized policies. Tehran's development adopted a car-oriented model, prioritizing the construction of highways, numerous streets, and dense urban blocks. This approach gradually reduced the urban quality of life for pedestrians and diminished the city's overall livability.

AVA Communications Building / KRDS (Kourosh Rafiey Design Studio)

Miwa Negoro — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 03:00:00 +0000

The office and Workshop Building of Ava Communications Company is located within Pardis Technology Park, approximately 20 kilometers northeast of Tehran. The project occupies an 800-square-meter plot at the end of a dead-end street, with a wide pedestrian path bordering the rear. Early in the design process, a decommissioned airplane was installed on-site as a sculptural element—an unexpected gesture that significantly influenced the architectural form.

Rethinking Mixed-Use Architecture: 8 Conceptual Projects That Integrate Nature, Culture, Work, Play, and Community

Nour Fakharany — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 04:00:00 +0000

From forest-inspired offices in Sweden to jungle-nest clubhouses in Tulum, mixed-use architecture continues to evolve as a tool for integrated living. As cities grow and our expectations of public, private, and commercial space shift, designers are increasingly rethinking how different functions including work, play, rest, learning, can coexist in a single architectural language. These projects suggest that buildings and projects no longer need to silo activities, but rather choreograph them to reflect the rhythms of everyday life.

Rahyaft Office / NOIR Office

Miwa Negoro — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 19:00:00 +0000

RAHYAFT Central Office Approach is a knowledge-based architectural concept that aims to challenge conventional notions of office space. It envisions a dynamic environment where workspaces are integrated with collective areas, pause zones, and circulation paths, creating a vibrant and interactive building in which daily activities are not dictated solely by the traditional office program.

Living Together: 8 Conceptual Projects Rethinking Collective Housing in Sites from Tehran to Tirana

Nour Fakharany — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Collective living continues to be a central theme in contemporary housing discourse, one that extends beyond questions of density or typology to engage broader concerns of land use, social cohesion, and spatial identity. This selection of conceptual unbuilt projects, submitted by the ArchDaily community, explores the potentials of shared living environments, not only as functional housing solutions but as frameworks for interaction, environmental integration, and cultural continuity. Whether in urban or remote settings, they reflect a growing interest in rethinking how domestic space can support both individual privacy and communal life.

AnDo Residential Building / Next Office–Alireza Taghaboni

Pilar Caballero — Thu, 08 May 2025 02:00:00 +0000

The AnDo Project—which literally translates to those two in Farsi—is an attempt to create new types of residence in infill plots. By freeing the circulation and intermixing it with the open spaces of the terrace, the entrance, and the yard, the two units in each level have been turned into a vibrant yet peaceful residential complex, with each unit maintaining its independence from the other while participating in a perpetual dance with the help of the playful stairway that joins the pair. The two synchronous masses and the stairway that seems stuck in between create variegated spatial sequences and united with their open spaces like a three-dimensional promenade.

Rafieian’s House / Pargar Architecture and Design Studio

Pilar Caballero — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 20:00:00 +0000

"Rafieian's House" exemplifies the intricate relationship between interior and exterior spaces, posing a thought-provoking question: where is the boundary between outside and inside? This theme has long fascinated architects, as they explore how spaces transition and interact, from the primal experience of viewing rain from within a cave to Johnson's glass villa's transparent connection to the outdoors.

J Cafe / Kanisavaran Office

Andreas Luco — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 01:00:00 +0000

Passage, portico, cafe, pause, passage, portico, cafe, interaction - This arrangement of words gives an interpretation of the hidden and obvious scenario of this cafe. A cafe near one of the main squares of the capital and ironically adjacent to one of the suburban terminals and a possibility for a first meeting. The cafe in its nature has the characteristic of creating interaction and companionship, and although this interaction does not necessarily happen through speech and Maybe a moment of pause and look and passing is a memorable interaction itself. Although stoicism was once for stoicism, today they are created in the desire to create a connection. A pause and a gesture, or a greeting, a gesture, or a look and a gesture, all bring to mind one thing, a motivation derived from an inner impulse that tries to communicate. An invitation that is expressed without any care and there are no boundaries to enter.