Olgoo critiques overdevelopment in Iran with The Inside Home
Iranian architecture studio Olgoo has completed a subterranean holiday home near Tehran, topped by a green roof that merges with the surrounding landscape. More
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CAAT Studio's home for a stone-seller in Iran is a celebration of travertine
Tehran-based practice CAAT Studio has completed a house for a local stone seller in the city of Mahallat, Iran, with a facade made from local travertine. More
Zav Architects designs Iranian house as a belvedere featuring open-air viewing platforms
Tehran studio Zav Architects designed this boxy house in northern Iran as a series of enclosed living units surrounded by open-air platforms and social spaces with views across the rural landscape. More
Sprayed render covers walls of rural Iranian house by BAM Architects Office
A plaster made of sand and straw has been sprayed across the walls of this house, which was built in a village in Iran by local firm BAM Architects Office. More
Elevated walkway bridges two parts of Iranian holiday home divided by swimming pool
An elevated passageway spans a swimming pool to connect the two monolithic blocks of this weekend home in the Iranian city of Karaj by Kamran Heirati Architects. More
Monochrome Iranian holiday home by RooyDaad Architects is dark outside and white inside
RooyDaad Architects created this monochrome house as a weekend retreat from their practice in Tehran, and based its design on a housing model by Le Corbusier (+ slideshow). More
Afsharian's House by ReNa Design has a huge vertical slice in its facade
An angular white-walled gash creates a cavernous entrance for this house in the Iranian city of Kermanshah by ReNa Design (+ slideshow). More
Inward-facing Iranian home lets light filter in through a facade of wooden slats
Timber slats cover the walls and the windows of this house in Isfahan, Iran, allowing light to filter in without compromising the privacy of its occupants (+ slideshow). More
Next Office builds curvy Tehran house that splits in the middle
Iranian studio Next Office has completed a house in Tehran that splits in the middle to create two curvy wings (+ slideshow). More
Iranian house by New Wave Architecture is made up of three irregularly stacked boxes
A trio of volumes are stacked one on top of each other to form this hillside residence near Tehran by New Wave Architecture, but each one is angled towards a different view (+ slideshow). More
Rotating rooms give Sharifi-ha House by Next Office a shape-shifting facade
Swivelling pods allow the owners of this house in Tehran to adapt to Iran's fluctuating temperatures by opening up rooms in summer, or turning them inwards during winter. More
Next Office covers house near Tehran in a curved concrete facade
Billowing curves sweep across the concrete facade and continue inside this house near Tehran, designed by Iranian studio Next Office (+ slideshow). More