A creative building in the industrial capital of Iran, designed by A.P.P. Architects and Associates was designed with privacy in mind while working as a visual artwork.

The brainchild of Farhad Mirzaie and A.P.P Architects and Associates, the striking “Aryan Pajoohan Pars” office block allows natural light to stream through the angled bricks while obscuring views from the exterior inside for privacy.

Each individual block has the end painted in turquoise and azure and is angled in a parametric design – creating sweeping and curved lines through geometric equations which simulate organic structures. This is a big architecture trend currently as designers and architects call to nature and surrounds for inspiration and references.

The rippling wave-like effect brings a natural element to the urban and residential area and gives a feeling of movement and fluidity to the building.

Looking for more inspirational architecture? Take a look at the incredible Wormhole Library by MAD.

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Iranian-American artist Hadieh Shafie creates mesmerising optical artworks from hand-dyed and -rolled paper scrolls.

Simple strips of paper are dipped into carefully selected dyes and then tightly bound and placed together within a boundary to create a striking geometric pattern.

The scrolls create a single large-scale piece of art made from individual paper components. From afar, the creation appears to be a single artwork, but upon closer inspection, the viewer is able to pick up on the many intricate components that have been used to create the piece as a whole.

Hadieh also incorporates script and calligraphy into some of the rolled scrolls, while in others all of the paper ends at an equal depth, or feature the scrolls extending at different levels, bringing new dimensions to the work.

See more of her vibrant work at hadiehshafie.com.

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