Greenland Center is located near Shiraz, in the "new city" Sadr, created in the 1990s in the hills at the foot of the Zagros Mountains in southern Iran. The center has become the first point of attraction in the city: it houses an exhibition and cultural center, a hall for ceremonies, and an office building. A sports center, accommodation, a hotel are planned.
The central place in the ensemble is occupied by buildings A and B designed by the Shiraz bureau Mehrdad Iravanian Architects. A is a café-gallery located just above the slope, B is an exhibition pavilion, lower and closer to the road. They are connected by a concrete bridge; there is also a ramp leading through a landscaped area.
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zooming 1/4 Greenland Center - Building A: Gallery Cafe Photo © Navid Atrvash
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The architects presented these two pavilions as a pair of "opposites". The gallery café is decorated with regular corten cells that protect it from the sun and frame the spectacular views. They reflect the autonomy of different parts of the building: the restaurant in the basement, the gallery on the ground floor and the cafe on the very top.
The exhibition pavilion, where expositions are combined with the restaurant space, reflects a different idea. Cells made of white panels lose their individuality here, crumple and shrink. So, if a cafe-gallery is about the independence of forms, then building B is about their mutual influence on each other.
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zooming 1/3 Greenland Center - Building B: Exhibition Pavilion Photo © Keyvan Gharaee Nezhad, Suzan Iravanian
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zooming 2/3 Greenland Center - Building B: Exhibition Pavilion Photo © Keyvan Gharaee Nezhad, Suzan Iravanian
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zooming 3/3 Greenland Center - Building B: Exhibition Pavilion Photo © Keyvan Gharaee Nezhad, Suzan Iravanian
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zooming 1/10 Greenland Center - Building B: Exhibition Pavilion Photo © Navid Atrvash
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zooming 2/10 Greenland Center - Building B: Exhibition Pavilion Photo © Navid Atrvash
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zooming 3/10 Greenland Center - Building B: Exhibition Pavilion Photo © Navid Atrvash
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zooming 4/10 Greenland Center - Building B: Exhibition Pavilion Photo © Keyvan Gharaee Nezhad, Suzan Iravanian
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zooming 9/10 Greenland Center - Building B: Exhibition Pavilion Photo © Navid Atrvash
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zooming Greenland Center - Building A: Gallery Cafe Photo © Keyvan Gharaee Nezhad, Suzan Iravanian
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zooming Greenland Center - Building A: Gallery Cafe Photo © Keyvan Gharaee Nezhad, Suzan Iravanian
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zooming 1/4 Greenland Center - Building A: Gallery Cafe Photo © Navid Atrvash
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zooming 1/6 Greenland Center - Building B: Exhibition Pavilion © Mehrdad Iravanian Architects
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zooming 1/9 Greenland Center - Building A: Cafe-Gallery © Mehrdad Iravanian Architects
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