Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism
Technical details
Floor area
16,145 sq ft (1,499.9 m2)[2]
Grounds
420 acres (170 ha) at the time of conception[3]
Design and construction
Architecture firm
Taliesin Associated Architects William Wesley Peters, Amery-Kamooneh-Khosravi Consulting Architects of Tehran
Structural engineer
Thomas Casey
Other designers
Stephen M. Nemtin Frances Nemtin Cornelia Brierly, John deKoven Hill
Pearl Palace (Persian: کاخ مروارید; Romanized: kakh-e Morvarid / Kāx-e Morvārid ), also known as Shams Palace[4] (Persian: کاخ شمس; Romanized: kakh-e Shams / Kāx-e Šams) is an estate in Iran, designed by Taliesin Associated Architects (Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation)[3] on instructions from princess Shams Pahlavi, elder sister of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran. It was built in the early 1970s and is located in the Mehrshahr neighborhood, in Karaj City, Iran.[when?][5]
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