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| Shahestan Pahlavi Future Projects & Plans menu Symbolic of Iran’s urban future, Shahestan Pahlavi will stand on nearly five million square meters of open land in the heart of Iran’s capital, Tehran. It will be a new city center of distinctive civil and ceremonial spaces, balanced with open areas, pedestrian precincts and vehicular access, and with cultural and business functions. Within the central spine running north-south through the sloping site, ministries will be mixed with commercial uses; entertainment and restaurant facilities will occupy the lower floors of private office blocks to encourage continuous day and night activity. The Shahanshah Boulevard, the main vehicular and pedestrian route along the central spine, will be flanked with a stepped linear park with cascading water courses; while below the boulevard will run the first link of Tehran’s metro system, connecting to other parts of the city and to the new international airport south of the city. Proceeding northward and uphill along the central spine, where building heights are controlled to preserve major views, the Shahanshah Boulevard terminates in the Shah Nation Square, the ceremonial and symbolic center of Shahestan Pahlavi and one of the largest urban spaces in the world, exceeding in size even the Meydan-e-Shah of Esfahan. North of the square a cultural precinct of museums, facilities for the performing arts, and libraries, including the Pahlavi National Library, will overlook the Shahbanou Park. More than a third of Shahestan Pahlavi will be open space – plazas, formal parks, and gardens within the denser, central section and larger, more natural green spaces on the surrounding ridge and valley system. Here, three residential areas of mid-and low-rise housing with related social and community facilities will bring Shahestan Pahlavi’s total population to 50,000. Llewelyn - Davies International Planning Consultants |
| Shahestan Pahlavi mentioned in an article by Newsweek of, February 10, 1975 The extent to which the oil producers plan to use petrodollars to finance internal development is not sufficiently appreciated in the U.S., according to American officials. “The Shah of Iran has committed his next three years of revenue to the end,” reported one Treasury Department expert. Among other things, the Shah has announced a $5 billion scheme to build a 2-square mile “city within a city” in Tehran as part of his dream of making Iran’s capital a major world city. Projects like these are more than matters of national pride. A central concern among Mideastern leaders is what happens when their oil runs out – and that will occur in twenty years for some producers – or when the West no longer needs it. To guard against the economic ruins that day could bring, they are embarking on a program of industrialization that they hope will carry them safely into the next century. At the same time, they are trying to encourage a growing interdependence between themselves and the West, investing in Europe and America in such a way as to make sure that the already industrialized nations will remain oriented to Mideast development needs for a long time to come. |
| Today, over two decades have passed and none of the plans or projects seen on this site have become reality! TTT - Tehran Telecommunication Tower is the only project that after many cut backs and scaleing down may be completed in the near future, with nearly twenty years of delay! (left picture) TTT's new project under Bygging-Uddemann AB |
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| 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 1 .Toronto 553.3 m 2. Moscow 533.3 m 3. Shanghai 460 m 4. Tehran 437m 5. Kulalampour 420 m 6 . 7. 8. Alma Atai 370 m 9. Berlin 362 m 10. Tashkand 357 m 11. Frankfurt 3321 m 12.Munich 290m 13. Hamburg 271.5 m |