The Ribbon of Light building, planned in Tehran, Iran, will be a multi-use, ten story structure designed to catalyze further growth in the surrounding area.

The first three stories act as high-end retail space, the next five floors serve as office space, and the uppermost two floors are grand wedding halls. With recreation, production and consumption all provided within one single high-end space, well-planned developments within that community can go forward with a great precedent for community-building.

Where Tom Wright could have easily constructed this building, even in his sleek, ultra-modern style, in a simple construction with a lower pediment containing the retail space, a central region containing the offices, and an upper entablature housing the wedding halls, using the eponymous ribbon of light to simultaneously separate the different spaces and connect them all provides a visual indication of the structure’s mixed-use purpose, offering community planners inspiration for how to best zone the region.