Ekbatan

Ekbatan Complex (Persian: شهرک اکباتان) is a planned town built as a project of modern apartment buildings in western part of Tehran, Iran. Today it is considered one of Tehran's neighborhoods. It is the largest residential complex in Tehran. The Construction of the Ekbatan complex started in 1975 for the purpose of mass housing. It has 15,500 units on an area of 2,208,570 m2 located in western Tehran. The designer of the complex is Jordan Gruzen (now Gruzen Samton LLP) from the United States. Another American company by the name Starrett successfully built and completed phase I of the complex before hitting the revolution. European contractors were also involved in the project. Ekbatan has 3 separate sets of buildings called a phase...