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    • 22.05.2021 Separation and unity, Lot 19 Residential Block, La Défense–Nanterre
    • 14.02.2019 Is This Tomorrow?
    • 13.06.2017 Architecture Room, Royal Academy, Summer Exhibition
    • 30.09.2014 Grounded Visionaries: Pedagogy + Practice Exhibition
    • 30.09.2012 Arquitecto en femenino
    • 31.07.2012 Common Ground at the Venice Architecture Biennale
    • 27.10.2011 WTC 1 - The Bundle Tower
    • 31.12.2010 La Ville Fertile
    • 27.10.2010 Why Design Now?
    • 27.10.2010 New World Architectur' at 'The City and the World'
    • 20.06.2010 RIBA Fifty Buildings, 50 years
    • 27.04.2010 Internationale Bienniale of Design
    • 19.08.2009 Dentelles d'architecture
    • 20.03.2009 Gwangju Design Biennale
    • 19.08.2008 Future Non-Future
    • 25.06.2008 Skin+Bones: Parallel Practices in Fashion and Architecture'
    • 11.03.2006 Skin+Bones: Parallel Practices in Fashion and Architecture
    • 15.09.2007 Retrospective show
    • 13.07.2007 Love & Money - the Best of British Design Now
    • 22.08.2006 Hypothetical Slide House
    • 12.07.2006 Future City Exhibition
    • 17.11.2005 Groundswell: Constructing the Contemporary Landscape
    • 16.06.2004 Monographic show on FOA
    • 21.09.2004 FOA's phyolgenesis
  • Publications
  • Function
  • Year
  • Status
  • Scale
  • Location
  • Culture
    • Separation and unity, Lot 19 Residential Block, La Défense–Nanterre
    • Ismaili Center Houston
    • Magdalene Odundo: the Journey of Things, The Hepworth Wakefield
    • Is this Tomorrow? Whitechapel Gallery, London
    • Zabludowicz Collection extension, 176 Prince of Wales Road, London
    • National Portrait Gallery, London
    • Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Cleveland, USA
    • Bastion St Antoine Archaeological Museum, Geneva
    • Tampere Art Museum, Tampere
    • Science Museum Entrances and Patrons’ Centre at The Science Museum, London
    • Guggenheim Competition, Helsinki
    • Spanish Pavilion at the 2005 World Expo, Aichi, Japan
    • Torrevieja Municipal Theatre and Auditorium, Torrevieja, Spain
    • BBC Music Box, London
  • Residential
    • Private House, Hove
    • La Folie Divine, Montpellier
    • Îlot 19 La Défense-Nanterre, France
    • Private Villa, Burnier, Switzerland
    • Housing Prototype
    • Carabanchel Social Housing, Madrid
    • Ilot PSA Citroën, Nantes
    • Residences for Artists and Researchers, Paris
    • ZAC Eurêka - Îlot 21, Castelnau-le-Lez, France
    • Adaptive re-use of 20 Eastbourne Terrace, London
  • Retail
    • Harrods World
    • Les Galeries Lafayette, 52 Av. Des Champs-Élysées, Paris
    • Victoria Beckham Flagship Store, London
    • Victoria Beckham Store, Hong Kong
    • Harrods Toys Department, London
    • Daniel w. Fletcher Pop-Up Store, London
    • John Lewis Department Store and Cineplex, Leicester
    • Meydan Retail Complex and Multiplex, Istanbul
    • Les Galeries Lafayette, Boulevard Hausmann, Paris
    • BHV, Paris
    • Belgo Zuid, London
  • Office
    • Ismaili Center Houston
    • Borderouge lot 22
    • 130 Fenchurch Street, London
    • Banque Libano-Française, Beirut
    • IOC Headquarters The Olympic Campus, Lausanne
    • Dulnyouk Publishers, Paju, Korea
    • Trinity EC3, London
    • World Trade Centre 1 - Bundle Towers, New York
    • World Trade Centre 2 - Ground Zero Memorial & Towers, New York
  • Education
    • Ismaili Center Houston
    • OSZ Chemistry Physics Biology, Berlin
    • Ravensbourne College, London
    • La Rioja Technology Transfer Centre, La Rioja, Spain
  • Leisure
    • Ismaili Center Houston
    • National Stadium Japan, Tokyo
    • Yokohama International Port Terminal, Yokohama, Japan
    • John Lewis Department Store and Cineplex, Leicester
    • Meydan Retail Complex and Multiplex, Istanbul
    • Bluemoon Hotel, Groningen
  • Transport
    • Gare de Noisy-Champs, Paris
    • Old Street station, London
    • Nine Elms to Pimlico Bridge, London
    • Yokohama International Port Terminal, Yokohama, Japan
  • Public Space
    • Whitechapel Market Arboretum, London
    • South-East Coastal Park, Barcelona
    • Public Spaces Along the Thames - Swimming Pool, London
    • Yokohama International Port Terminal, Yokohama, Japan
    • Public Spaces Along the Thames - Waterpark, London
    • Public Spaces Along the Thames - Cycle Bridge, London
    • Public Spaces Along the Thames - Cycle Highway, London
    • London 2012 Olympic Park, London
  • Landscape
    • South-East Coastal Park, Barcelona
    • Yokohama International Port Terminal, Yokohama, Japan
    • London 2012 Olympic Park, London
  • Masterplan
    • London 2012 Olympic Park, London
  • Exhibitions
    • Separation and unity, Lot 19 Residential Block, La Défense–Nanterre
    • Ismaili Center Houston
    • Magdalene Odundo: the Journey of Things, The Hepworth Wakefield
    • Is this Tomorrow? Whitechapel Gallery, London
    • The Virtual and Architecture, From Life, Royal Academy, London
    • Architecture Room, Royal Academy 2017 Summer Exhibition, London
    • Architecture and Its Affects at the Arsenale, 13th Venice Biennale, Venice
    • Proposal for a temporary pavilion - Pavilion 1
    • Proposal for a temporary pavilion - Pavilion 2
    • Proposal for a temporary pavilion - Pavilion 3
    • Next at the British Pavilion, 8th Venice Biennale, Venice
    • Future City: Experiment and Utopia in Architecture 1956 - 2006 at the Barbican Art Gallery, London
  • Civic
    • Ismaili Center Houston
    • Yokohama International Port Terminal, Yokohama, Japan
    • Villajoyosa Municipal Police Headquarters, Villajoyosa, Spain
  • Furniture
    • Wooden Bench
  • 2019
    • Ismaili Center Houston
    • Magdalene Odundo: the Journey of Things, The Hepworth Wakefield
    • Is this Tomorrow? Whitechapel Gallery, London
    • Harrods World
  • 2018
    • Borderouge lot 22
    • Harrods Toys Department, London
  • 2017
    • Private House, Hove
    • La Folie Divine, Montpellier
    • ZAC Eurêka - Îlot 21, Castelnau-le-Lez, France
    • Zabludowicz Collection extension, 176 Prince of Wales Road, London
    • Bastion St Antoine Archaeological Museum, Geneva
    • Tampere Art Museum, Tampere
    • The Virtual and Architecture, From Life, Royal Academy, London
    • Architecture Room, Royal Academy 2017 Summer Exhibition, London
  • 2016
    • Les Galeries Lafayette, 52 Av. Des Champs-Élysées, Paris
    • Science Museum Entrances and Patrons’ Centre at The Science Museum, London
    • Proposal for a temporary pavilion - Pavilion 1
    • Proposal for a temporary pavilion - Pavilion 2
    • Proposal for a temporary pavilion - Pavilion 3
    • Banque Libano-Française, Beirut
    • Victoria Beckham Store, Hong Kong
    • Daniel w. Fletcher Pop-Up Store, London
    • Les Galeries Lafayette, Boulevard Hausmann, Paris
  • 2015
    • Nine Elms to Pimlico Bridge, London
    • Private Villa, Burnier, Switzerland
    • BHV, Paris
  • 2014
    • Victoria Beckham Flagship Store, London
    • Ilot PSA Citroën, Nantes
    • Guggenheim Competition, Helsinki
    • IOC Headquarters The Olympic Campus, Lausanne
  • 2013
    • Gare de Noisy-Champs, Paris
    • Whitechapel Market Arboretum, London
    • 130 Fenchurch Street, London
    • Public Spaces Along the Thames - Swimming Pool, London
    • Public Spaces Along the Thames - Waterpark, London
    • Public Spaces Along the Thames - Cycle Bridge, London
    • Public Spaces Along the Thames - Cycle Highway, London
    • Adaptive re-use of 20 Eastbourne Terrace, London
  • 2012
    • OSZ Chemistry Physics Biology, Berlin
    • National Stadium Japan, Tokyo
    • Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Cleveland, USA
    • Architecture and Its Affects at the Arsenale, 13th Venice Biennale, Venice
  • 2011
    • Îlot 19 La Défense-Nanterre, France
  • 2010
    • Ravensbourne College, London
  • 2008
    • John Lewis Department Store and Cineplex, Leicester
  • 2007
    • Carabanchel Social Housing, Madrid
    • London 2012 Olympic Park, London
    • La Rioja Technology Transfer Centre, La Rioja, Spain
    • Meydan Retail Complex and Multiplex, Istanbul
  • 2006
    • Residences for Artists and Researchers, Paris
    • Future City: Experiment and Utopia in Architecture 1956 - 2006 at the Barbican Art Gallery, London
    • Torrevieja Municipal Theatre and Auditorium, Torrevieja, Spain
  • 2005
    • Spanish Pavilion at the 2005 World Expo, Aichi, Japan
    • Dulnyouk Publishers, Paju, Korea
    • Trinity EC3, London
  • 2004
    • South-East Coastal Park, Barcelona
    • Villajoyosa Municipal Police Headquarters, Villajoyosa, Spain
  • 2003
    • BBC Music Box, London
  • 2002
    • Yokohama International Port Terminal, Yokohama, Japan
    • Next at the British Pavilion, 8th Venice Biennale, Venice
    • World Trade Centre 1 - Bundle Towers, New York
    • World Trade Centre 2 - Ground Zero Memorial & Towers, New York
  • 2001
    • Bluemoon Hotel, Groningen
  • 1999
    • Belgo Zuid, London
  • Built
    • Separation and unity, Lot 19 Residential Block, La Défense–Nanterre
    • La Folie Divine, Montpellier
    • Îlot 19 La Défense-Nanterre, France
    • Magdalene Odundo: the Journey of Things, The Hepworth Wakefield
    • Is this Tomorrow? Whitechapel Gallery, London
    • South-East Coastal Park, Barcelona
    • Yokohama International Port Terminal, Yokohama, Japan
    • Victoria Beckham Flagship Store, London
    • Ravensbourne College, London
    • Carabanchel Social Housing, Madrid
    • Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Cleveland, USA
    • London 2012 Olympic Park, London
    • Spanish Pavilion at the 2005 World Expo, Aichi, Japan
    • The Virtual and Architecture, From Life, Royal Academy, London
    • Architecture Room, Royal Academy 2017 Summer Exhibition, London
    • Architecture and Its Affects at the Arsenale, 13th Venice Biennale, Venice
    • Next at the British Pavilion, 8th Venice Biennale, Venice
    • Future City: Experiment and Utopia in Architecture 1956 - 2006 at the Barbican Art Gallery, London
    • Villajoyosa Municipal Police Headquarters, Villajoyosa, Spain
    • La Rioja Technology Transfer Centre, La Rioja, Spain
    • Torrevieja Municipal Theatre and Auditorium, Torrevieja, Spain
    • Dulnyouk Publishers, Paju, Korea
    • Victoria Beckham Store, Hong Kong
    • Harrods Toys Department, London
    • Daniel w. Fletcher Pop-Up Store, London
    • John Lewis Department Store and Cineplex, Leicester
    • Meydan Retail Complex and Multiplex, Istanbul
    • Bluemoon Hotel, Groningen
    • Belgo Zuid, London
  • Ongoing
    • Ismaili Center Houston
    • Private House, Hove
    • Harrods World
    • 130 Fenchurch Street, London
    • Housing Prototype
    • Zabludowicz Collection extension, 176 Prince of Wales Road, London
  • Others
    • Borderouge lot 22
    • Gare de Noisy-Champs, Paris
    • Old Street station, London
    • OSZ Chemistry Physics Biology, Berlin
    • National Stadium Japan, Tokyo
    • Nine Elms to Pimlico Bridge, London
    • Whitechapel Market Arboretum, London
    • Private Villa, Burnier, Switzerland
    • Public Spaces Along the Thames - Swimming Pool, London
    • Public Spaces Along the Thames - Waterpark, London
    • Public Spaces Along the Thames - Cycle Bridge, London
    • Les Galeries Lafayette, 52 Av. Des Champs-Élysées, Paris
    • Public Spaces Along the Thames - Cycle Highway, London
    • Ilot PSA Citroën, Nantes
    • Residences for Artists and Researchers, Paris
    • ZAC Eurêka - Îlot 21, Castelnau-le-Lez, France
    • National Portrait Gallery, London
    • Adaptive re-use of 20 Eastbourne Terrace, London
    • Bastion St Antoine Archaeological Museum, Geneva
    • Tampere Art Museum, Tampere
    • Science Museum Entrances and Patrons’ Centre at The Science Museum, London
    • Guggenheim Competition, Helsinki
    • Proposal for a temporary pavilion - Pavilion 1
    • Proposal for a temporary pavilion - Pavilion 2
    • Proposal for a temporary pavilion - Pavilion 3
    • BBC Music Box, London
    • Banque Libano-Française, Beirut
    • IOC Headquarters The Olympic Campus, Lausanne
    • Trinity EC3, London
    • World Trade Centre 1 - Bundle Towers, New York
    • World Trade Centre 2 - Ground Zero Memorial & Towers, New York
    • Les Galeries Lafayette, Boulevard Hausmann, Paris
    • BHV, Paris
  • < 1,000 m²
    • Separation and unity, Lot 19 Residential Block, La Défense–Nanterre
    • Private House, Hove
    • Magdalene Odundo: the Journey of Things, The Hepworth Wakefield
    • Is this Tomorrow? Whitechapel Gallery, London
    • Victoria Beckham Flagship Store, London
    • Housing Prototype
    • The Virtual and Architecture, From Life, Royal Academy, London
    • Architecture Room, Royal Academy 2017 Summer Exhibition, London
    • Architecture and Its Affects at the Arsenale, 13th Venice Biennale, Venice
    • Proposal for a temporary pavilion - Pavilion 1
    • Proposal for a temporary pavilion - Pavilion 2
    • Proposal for a temporary pavilion - Pavilion 3
    • Next at the British Pavilion, 8th Venice Biennale, Venice
    • Harrods Toys Department, London
    • Daniel w. Fletcher Pop-Up Store, London
    • Bluemoon Hotel, Groningen
    • Belgo Zuid, London
  • 1,000 - 5,000 m²
    • Harrods World
    • Gare de Noisy-Champs, Paris
    • Whitechapel Market Arboretum, London
    • Private Villa, Burnier, Switzerland
    • Public Spaces Along the Thames - Swimming Pool, London
    • Public Spaces Along the Thames - Waterpark, London
    • Public Spaces Along the Thames - Cycle Bridge, London
    • Public Spaces Along the Thames - Cycle Highway, London
    • ZAC Eurêka - Îlot 21, Castelnau-le-Lez, France
    • Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Cleveland, USA
    • Bastion St Antoine Archaeological Museum, Geneva
    • Science Museum Entrances and Patrons’ Centre at The Science Museum, London
    • Spanish Pavilion at the 2005 World Expo, Aichi, Japan
    • Future City: Experiment and Utopia in Architecture 1956 - 2006 at the Barbican Art Gallery, London
    • Villajoyosa Municipal Police Headquarters, Villajoyosa, Spain
    • Torrevieja Municipal Theatre and Auditorium, Torrevieja, Spain
    • Dulnyouk Publishers, Paju, Korea
  • 5,000 - 10,000 m²
    • Nine Elms to Pimlico Bridge, London
    • Carabanchel Social Housing, Madrid
    • Zabludowicz Collection extension, 176 Prince of Wales Road, London
    • Adaptive re-use of 20 Eastbourne Terrace, London
    • Guggenheim Competition, Helsinki
    • La Rioja Technology Transfer Centre, La Rioja, Spain
    • BBC Music Box, London
    • IOC Headquarters The Olympic Campus, Lausanne
  • 10,000 - 50,000 m²
    • Ismaili Center Houston
    • La Folie Divine, Montpellier
    • Îlot 19 La Défense-Nanterre, France
    • Borderouge lot 22
    • OSZ Chemistry Physics Biology, Berlin
    • 130 Fenchurch Street, London
    • South-East Coastal Park, Barcelona
    • Yokohama International Port Terminal, Yokohama, Japan
    • Ravensbourne College, London
    • Ilot PSA Citroën, Nantes
    • Residences for Artists and Researchers, Paris
    • Tampere Art Museum, Tampere
    • Banque Libano-Française, Beirut
    • John Lewis Department Store and Cineplex, Leicester
  • > 50,000 m²
    • National Stadium Japan, Tokyo
    • London 2012 Olympic Park, London
    • Trinity EC3, London
    • World Trade Centre 1 - Bundle Towers, New York
    • World Trade Centre 2 - Ground Zero Memorial & Towers, New York
    • Meydan Retail Complex and Multiplex, Istanbul
  • Europe
    • Separation and unity, Lot 19 Residential Block, La Défense–Nanterre
    • Private House, Hove
    • La Folie Divine, Montpellier
    • Îlot 19 La Défense-Nanterre, France
    • Borderouge lot 22
    • Magdalene Odundo: the Journey of Things, The Hepworth Wakefield
    • Is this Tomorrow? Whitechapel Gallery, London
    • Harrods World
    • Gare de Noisy-Champs, Paris
    • OSZ Chemistry Physics Biology, Berlin
    • Nine Elms to Pimlico Bridge, London
    • Whitechapel Market Arboretum, London
    • Private Villa, Burnier, Switzerland
    • 130 Fenchurch Street, London
    • South-East Coastal Park, Barcelona
    • Public Spaces Along the Thames - Swimming Pool, London
    • Public Spaces Along the Thames - Waterpark, London
    • Public Spaces Along the Thames - Cycle Bridge, London
    • Les Galeries Lafayette, 52 Av. Des Champs-Élysées, Paris
    • Public Spaces Along the Thames - Cycle Highway, London
    • Victoria Beckham Flagship Store, London
    • Ravensbourne College, London
    • Housing Prototype
    • Carabanchel Social Housing, Madrid
    • Ilot PSA Citroën, Nantes
    • Residences for Artists and Researchers, Paris
    • ZAC Eurêka - Îlot 21, Castelnau-le-Lez, France
    • Zabludowicz Collection extension, 176 Prince of Wales Road, London
    • National Portrait Gallery, London
    • Adaptive re-use of 20 Eastbourne Terrace, London
    • Bastion St Antoine Archaeological Museum, Geneva
    • Tampere Art Museum, Tampere
    • Science Museum Entrances and Patrons’ Centre at The Science Museum, London
    • Guggenheim Competition, Helsinki
    • London 2012 Olympic Park, London
    • The Virtual and Architecture, From Life, Royal Academy, London
    • Architecture Room, Royal Academy 2017 Summer Exhibition, London
    • Architecture and Its Affects at the Arsenale, 13th Venice Biennale, Venice
    • Proposal for a temporary pavilion - Pavilion 1
    • Proposal for a temporary pavilion - Pavilion 2
    • Proposal for a temporary pavilion - Pavilion 3
    • Next at the British Pavilion, 8th Venice Biennale, Venice
    • Future City: Experiment and Utopia in Architecture 1956 - 2006 at the Barbican Art Gallery, London
    • Villajoyosa Municipal Police Headquarters, Villajoyosa, Spain
    • La Rioja Technology Transfer Centre, La Rioja, Spain
    • Torrevieja Municipal Theatre and Auditorium, Torrevieja, Spain
    • BBC Music Box, London
    • Banque Libano-Française, Beirut
    • IOC Headquarters The Olympic Campus, Lausanne
    • Trinity EC3, London
    • Harrods Toys Department, London
    • Daniel w. Fletcher Pop-Up Store, London
    • John Lewis Department Store and Cineplex, Leicester
    • Bluemoon Hotel, Groningen
    • Les Galeries Lafayette, Boulevard Hausmann, Paris
    • BHV, Paris
    • Belgo Zuid, London
  • Middle East
    • Meydan Retail Complex and Multiplex, Istanbul
  • North America
    • Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Cleveland, USA
    • World Trade Centre 1 - Bundle Towers, New York
    • World Trade Centre 2 - Ground Zero Memorial & Towers, New York
  • Asia
    • Ismaili Center Houston
    • National Stadium Japan, Tokyo
    • Yokohama International Port Terminal, Yokohama, Japan
    • Spanish Pavilion at the 2005 World Expo, Aichi, Japan
    • Dulnyouk Publishers, Paju, Korea
    • Victoria Beckham Store, Hong Kong

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Team
  • Architect - Farshid Moussavi Architecture
  • Landscape architect - Nelson Byrd Woltz
  • Structural engineer - AKT II
  • Architect of record - DLR group
  • Images - Bloomimages Berlin GmbH
Project Data
Location
Houston, Texas, USA
Client
His Highness the Aga Khan
Date
2019
Total area
20000 m2

Situated on Allen Parkway and Montrose Boulevard, the Ismaili Center is commissioned by His Highness the Aga Khan, spiritual leader of the Shia Ismaili Muslims and founder and Chairman of the Aga Khan Development Network.
Dedicated to advancing pluralism, public understanding and civic outreach, the Center in Houston joins its counterparts established in London (UK), Lisbon (Portugal), Dubai (UAE), Dushanbe (Tajikistan), Vancouver and Toronto (Canada). Each of these buildings - designed by architects of international standing and multi-cultural sensitivity - is reflective of their own geographies and contexts. As ambassadorial buildings around the world, they are symbolic of the Ismaili community’s presence, pluralistic outlook and ethos of volunteering. The Ismaili Center Houston, with its openness of both purpose and structure, will seek to express these values. Speaking in Sugar Land, Texas in 2002, His Highness observed that “since all that we see and do resonates on the faith, the aesthetics of the environments we build and the quality of the interactions that take place within them reverberate on our spiritual lives.”
The Ismaili Center Houston will be a venue for educational, cultural and social events, to encourage understanding and facilitate the sharing of perspectives across peoples of diverse backgrounds, faiths and traditions. It will aim to build bridges through intellectual exchange by hosting concerts, recitals, plays, performances, exhibitions, conferences, seminars, conversations, book launches and community gatherings. The building will also provide space for quiet contemplation and for prayer, as well as serve as the administrative headquarters of the Ismaili community in the USA.
In presenting the design, Farshid Moussavi, internationally acclaimed architect, who also designed the Museum of Contemporary Art in Cleveland, observed: “What made this project especially rewarding was the close alignment between the aspirations of the client and architect. What made it especially challenging was my awareness of the rigorous standards that His Highness the Aga Khan has established for architecture! We have tried to work with Islamic design philosophy, and celebrate its singularity and unique qualities as well as the features it has in common with Western design, so that the building, both through its fabric and through the way it is used, would act as a symbol of dialogue.”
The building is designed with a compact footprint, leaving large portions of the site to be used as gardens. Given the frequently hot and humid climate of Houston and the prominence of the site in the city, it is designed with a tripartite form with each of its volumes hosting a soaring eivan (veranda) to enable social and cultural gatherings to occur outdoors throughout the year. The eivans are supported by forty-nine slender columns reminiscent of those used in Persepolis and seventeenth century palaces in Isfahan, Persia. In being open on all sides and visible from all approaches to the site, the eivans will make the Ismaili Center open and inviting in every direction. At night, they will transform it to a beacon of light along Montrose Boulevard and Allen Parkway.
The Center’s design, contemporary in its expression, is reflective of a historically rooted, rich architectural heritage. It combines contemporary architectural technology – its light steel structure - with traditional Persian forms and ornament, including ceramic mosaics and screens drawn from Islamicate traditions around the world. Its design for sustainability includes assuring enhanced energy performance and longevity and durability of materials, by encasing exposed steel with concrete for a 100-year lifecycle, and using stone for the building’s exterior walls. Conceived as a tapestry in stone, the exterior walls will transition from solid areas to porous screens that will provide shade and privacy, and from flat surfaces to deep alcoves to permit shady repose fronting the gardens. The building exterior will therefore be defined by simplicity of form, openness, and an abstract decorative character.
The building interior will include three atriums that will act as common, non-exclusive flexible spaces between rooms dedicated to specific events. Each is located adjacent to an eivan to bring in natural light and views of the sky to the heart of the building. The central atrium’s stepped structure clad in ceramic screens, celebrates the heritage of the cupola dating back to 3000 BCE, dominant in both the architecture of the Sasanian period in Persia and the Christian buildings of the Byzantine empire. The west and east atriums will give access to a theater, a large hall and learning spaces.
The Center’s landscaped gardens will provide a sense of serenity and peace, offering a respite from its urban surroundings. The gardens will include tree canopies, fountains, shaded footpaths, flowerbeds, lawns and walkways. These will be spaces of solace, providing for the rejuvenation of the mind and the spirit.

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