هادی تهرانی

 The projects target atmospheric charisma, emotional urgency and an ecologically sound sustainability that is already laid out in the design. The first “green“ railway station in Germany at Frankfurt Airport and the Cologne “Crane Houses” on the banks of the River Rhine have become effective landmarks to a large extent like many international projects. In his unusually far-reaching competence from architecture to urban planning, to interior and product design, compositions succeed in which all elements interact harmoniously. Abu Dhabi, Berlin, Dubai, Hamburg, Istanbul, Copenhagen, Rome and Tehran are some of the metropolitan cities for which plans are being drawn up, as well as Moscow and Mumbai. The e-bike, the conference table (Thonet), leather seating furniture (Walter Knoll), a modular kitchen (Poggenpohl), lights (Zumtobel/Louis Poulsen), showrooms and flagship stores (Kiton) likewise belong to the catalogue of works, just as high-rise buildings, corporate centres, council offices, shopping worlds, stock markets, railway stations, schools and universities. In recent years particularly innovative concepts for sustainable urban residential construction have been developed and realised.

He is creative head of Hadi Teherani AG design company, is well-known for his successful architectural work with his Hamburg-based team BRT Architekten, Bothe, Richter, Teherani. He received his schooling in Hamburg, then went on to study in Braunschweig and to teach at Aachen’s Technical University. Quite exceptionally, he began his career as a fashion designer in Cologne before completely dedicating himself to architecture and becoming a celebrated name in that field. Teherani is member of Hamburg’s Academy of the Arts (Akademie der Künste) and has a made a name for himself internationally.

Today, many prolific buildings around the world can be credited to his creativity and entrepreneurial spirit, many of them distinctive landmarks in cityscapes of large global cities. He founded the design company carrying his name, Hadi Teherani AG, in 2003 as an outlet for his complete approach to design, producing products for everyday use and allowing him to make most of his visionary qualities as a designer. Interior Design made in Germany and awards for outstanding industrial design are the claim to fame of Hadi Teherani AG.  He and his partner live on Hamburg’s Alster in a house that he designed. Apart from two offices, in Hamburg, in the newly developed and thriving Hafen-City area and on the outskirts of historic Old town, Hadi Teherani also runs branches in Moscow, Dubai and Abu Dhabi.

In order to open up further sources of income, Hadi Teherani works not only as an architect, but also in the area of product and interior design. Not only the empty, architectural space is his goal, but the atmospherically harmonious, to harmonious in all furnishing details designed, sensually experiencable space. In cooperation with various manufacturers, Teherani realizes furnishings, textile coverings or wall surfaces for its buildings to match its architectural language. Hadi Teherani tries to become a brand through design. The catalog of the designer Hadi Teherani ranges from the office chair program ("Silver" / Interstuhl 2004) to other seating furniture, sideboards, a mobile office module, lights, door and window fittings, various carpet collections, wallpaper and sanitary objects to the kitchen (+ ARTESIO / Poggenpohl 2010) and a bicycle (Hadi Teherani e-Bike, 2011).

The claim to cover and connect architecture, product and interior design has been fulfilled in Kiton showrooms (New York, Tokyo, Milan, Rome, London), exhibition stands, a customer center and a television studio as well as for Zayed University in Abu Dhabi , International awards document the equality of architecture, product and interior design.