Argo Factory (

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: کارخانه آرگو), is a contemporary

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and cultural centre housed in a former brewery in

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. Argo Factory is part of the

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’s sites.

History

Argo Factory
is a 100 year old building which once used to be one of the major drink manufacturing factories in Iran during the 1960s and 1970s. Its construction dates back to early 1920s as one of the first industrial factories in Iran. It was closed down in 1970s due to environmental issues and it was not reopened after the

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. In 2016,

acquired and reconstructed the Argo Factory and turned into one of its multiple sites. The factory got its name Argo, from "the name of the beer once made there". It was closed down in 1970s due to environmental issues and after the

, it was not reopened.

Architecture

In spite of its unique architectural features – high smokestacks and strategic geographical position at the heart of the city – the factory was taken for granted for many years and eventually turned into a tumbledown building for almost four decades. The factory has undergone two phases of renovation, the most recent during 2018/19. In partnership with

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based architecture firm ASA North, Argo Factory transforms from nearly four decades of desertion and has received a lot of attention, such as winning the

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Award for Architecture in 2022.

Awards

Due to its special design, Argo factory received a lot of attention and managed to receive major architectural awards at the global level. In 2022, this building, along with two other Iranian projects, among 463 submitted works from 16 countries, was included in the list of final candidates for the

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, and from this list, six projects were selected as the final winners. Argo Factory, redesigned by Ahmadreza Schricker (ASA North), was among these winners. The

is given in three-year periods. Argo Factory also won the 2022

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Architecture Award, organized by the

website. These awards include three categories: architecture, interior and design, with 14 categories in each category. Finally, the final winner will be selected from each section and will be honored as the three special works of

Architecture Award. In the fifth edition of these awards, Argo Factory was among the names of selected projects in the final stage or short list of this international competition in the cultural buildings section, and became the final winner of this section and also became the

Awards 2022 architecture project of the year.

Programs

Argo Factory is part of

’s constellation of sites. Pejman Foundation supports art and culture through a program of exhibitions, talks, and events.

Exhibitions

* Neïl Beloufa - 2017 * Nose to Nose -

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- 2017 * Elsewhere Interactive VR Installation - 2018 * Nazgol Ansarinia: The Room Becomes a Street - 2020 * “For the sake of Calmness” A project by

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- 2020 * “In the Midst” vol. 1 - 2021 * Video at Large Selection of videos from the collection of Paris

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- 2021 * Mohsen Vaziri Moghaddam: Unrealised Projects - 2021 * Vanishing Point; A Selection of Pejman Collection - 2022 * “Truth Lies not in One Dream, but in Many”

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narrated b
Roberto Villa
��s Photos - 2022 * Remembrance of Things Present; An Exhibition by ASA-North - 2023

References

External links

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