Pasban Hazrat
Gholamreza
Jamshidiyeh Garden | Tehran | 1978
This garden is located in northern Tehran, north of Niavaran Street, on the foothills of the Alborz Mountains and adjacent to the Jamshidieh Valley. Initially, the garden covered about 6–7 hectares, but its area later expanded with tree planting on the upper slopes. The garden originally belonged to Mr. Dolou, who presented it to the former Crown Prince. The then-Queen decided to refurbish the garden and transfer it to the Tehran Municipality for public use. In 1976, I took on the simultaneous design and construction of the garden. The late Engineer Manouchehr Iranpour oversaw the implementation of the project, and the design was carried out by three individuals (Engineers Nik-Khesal, Barghaei, and myself). The design process relied on initial sketches without precise measurements, adapting to the conditions of each location and executed directly on-site at a 1:1 scale. For ground coverage and building materials, we used the naturally scattered stones of the mountain or sourced them from a nearby quarry. The garden was inaugurated in May 1978 in the presence of the former Shah, the then-Queen, and Mr. Sedar Senghor, the President of Senegal. The constructed service buildings include: a restaurant, a meeting and resting hall for mountaineers on the Kolak-Chal route, an administrative and gardeners’ rest building, a greenhouse, a metal-wire aviary, an open-air theater, and a secluded contemplative space. Several stone sculptures by the late Master Houshmand Vaziri and one metal sculpture by the late Mash Esmaeil Tavakoli were created for this garden and installed within it.