To be honest, I had never escaped from the centre, so I'm not the prime suspect. Part of my childhood memories and New Year's family visits belong to the city centre of Tehran, yet my problem is that I'm not nostalgic. As an adult too, university, cultural events or gallery visits have always preserved my connection with the centre of Tehran. It all began when I went to the intersection of Hafez and Jomhoori for the Charsoo Bazar project where I was doing some interior design. The first time I stood on the scaffolding, I saw a strange landscape: a wonderful view to Tehran and Mount Damavand and a very healthy and intact historical texture. I gradually started to look for the beautiful buildings that I could see from up there, and eventually did not return with the car that would wait for near Charsoo and turned into an inhabitant of that texture. Beautiful urbanism, trees, single remarkable buildings, proper sidewalks and the presence of shops related to interesting and sometimes forgotten guilds (for instance knife-sharpener's) and the city in general all gained a better meaning for me. It was as if the other side of the city was more carefully built Founder and CEO of Persian Garden Architecture Studio This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at [ Ссылка ]
