RYRA Studio

RYRA STUDIO is an award-winning architecture firm based in Tehran, Iran. Founded in 2000 by partners Farinaz Razavi Nikoo and Abbas Riahi Fard, RYRA STUDIO is a full service architecture and design firm specializing in custom residential, cultural, institutional and commercial buildings. Architectural designs are developed using innovative materials, advanced structural strategies, sustainable technologies, and guided from schematic design through the successful completion of construction.

RYRA approaches architecture with an emphasis on strategic planning, open spatial configurations, refined material detailing with the highest level of craftsmanship. Through research and analysis, the architects distill the parameters of site, structure, project brief and resources into strong sculptural forms at the scale of the landscape. The exterior and interior spaces created completely related to nature and the buildings’ immediate environment.

RYRA STUDIO has received numerous architectural awards, including International Architecture Awards from the Chicago Athenaeum in 2011 and 2012, World Architecture News in 2011 and World Architecture Festival in 2010. The works of RYRA STUDIO have been exhibited in London, Barcelona, Singapore, Buenos Aires, Istanbul and Tehran and published extensively, appearing on the covers of Concept, MEMAR, Architecture & Construction, Honar e Memari magazines and in the numerous1 architecture and design books.

Abbas Riahi Fard
Born 1978,Tehran, Iran M.A., Faculty of art and architecture, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran, 2002
Ph.D, Science and Research Branch of the Islamic Azad University (Tehran SRBIAU), 2010
Founded RYRA Studio in Tehran, 2000

Farinaz Razavi Nikoo
Born 1981,Tehran, Iran
M.A., Faculty of art and architecture, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran, 2007
Founded RYRA Studio in Tehran, 2000

2015 Honare Memari /No.37/ summer 2015
2014 Memar Iranian Quarterly on Architecture and Urban Design no 88 / December-January 2014-2015
2013 Memari va Sakhteman Journal / No. 34/ Spring 2013
2013 Sustainable Architecture / No. 11/ Autumn 2013
2013 Memari va Sakhteman Journal / No. 33/ Autumn & Winter 2013
2013 Hamshahri Memari no 21,Winter 2013
2013 Memar Iranian Quarterly on Architecture and Urban Design no 77 / February-March 2013
2012 Sharestan/No 36-37/ Quarterly on Architecture and art No.11/ Summer-Autumn 2012
2012 Konsept Projeler/No. 30/2012
2012 Architecture & Urbanism /No.106,107/ Spring-Summer 2012
2012 Sharestan/No 34-35/ Quarterly on Architecture and art No.10/ Winter-Spring 2012
2012 Architectural Design/Special Issue: Iran: Past, Present and Future/Volume 82, Issue 3, May/June 2012
2012 Honar e Memari /No.23/ winter 2012
2012 Memari va Sakhteman Journal / No. 28/ Autumn & Winter 2012
2011 Me mar Iranian Quarterly on Architecture and Urban Design no 70 / December-January 2011-2012
2011 Honare Memari /No.21/ summer 2011
2011 Me mar Iranian Quarterly on Architecture and Urban Design no 65/February-March 2011
2010 Design Magazine/No 18
2010 Brownbook magazine/No 22
2010 Onoffice /No.46 /Oct 2010
2010 Honare Memari /No.16 / spring 2010
2010 Memari va Sakhteman Journal / No. 20, 21/ Autumn & Winter 2009
2010 Me mar Iranian Quarterly on Architecture and Urban Design no 58/ December-January 2009-2010
2010 Architecture & Urbanism /No.96,97/Autumn & winter 2009
2009 2A magazine / Quarterly on Architecture and art No.12/ Autumn 2009
2009 2A magazine / Quarterly on Architecture and art No.10/ Winter 2009
2009 Memari va Sakhteman Journal / No. 17/ Fall 2009
2008 2A magazine / Quarterly on Architecture and art No.8/ Spring 2008
2008 Memar Iranian Quarterly on Architecture and Urban Design no 46/December-January 2007-2008
2007 Memar Iranian Quarterly on Architecture and Urban Design no 43/June-July 2007

Oct 2016 First prize in “Me mar Award 95” for Rowzan residence
Oct 2016 Memorable mention in " AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE PRIZE" for Rowzan residence
Apr 2016 Winner in A'DESIGN AWARD for Barin ski resort
Oct 2014 Second prize in “Memar Award 93” for Sipan residential building
June 2012 Shortlisted in WAF 2012 in Hotel category for Barin ski resort
June 2012 Winner CHICAGO INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE AWARDS for Vali-Asr commercial-office building
Dec 2011 Finalist in Commercial sector WAN Award for Vali-Asr commercial-office building
Oct 2011 Second prize in “Me mar Award 90” for Barin ski resort
Oct 2011 Finalist in “Memar Award 90” for Cheshm Azin Eyewear Shop
Oct 2011 Selected as the Best interior design in “4th Interior Design Award of Iran” for Cheshm Azin Eyewear Shop
Jun 2011 Winner CHICAGO INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE AWARDS 2011 for Barin ski resort
Nov 2010 Winner WORLD ARCHITECTURE FESTIVAL 2010 for Vali-Asr commercial-office building
Mar 2010 Selected as the Best Interior Design in “Honar e Memari Award” for Barin ski resort
Nov 2009 First prize in “Me mar Award 88” for Vali-asr commercial-office building
Oct 2009 Second prize in the “2nd Interior Design Award of Iran” in 2008 for Barin ski resort
Oct 2008 First prize in the “1st Interior Design Award of Iran” in 2008 for Givenchy showroom in Kish island
Nov 2007 Second prize in “Me mar Award 86” for Ehsan-pood spinning and weaving factory