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He started Arme Construction Company, shortly after he graduated from the University of Charlottenburg in Berlin.
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Amir Malekyazdi
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Born 1923) is an Iranian Canadian civil engineer and real-estate developer, builder and philanthropist based in Vancouver, British Columbia and Paris, France. Arme became one of the largest construction and development companies in Iran and the Middle East having built numerous civic and infrastructure projects including roads, bridges, tunnels,airports,whole townships, and an entire Asian Games Sports Complex in Tehran, including a 105,000 seat stadium, indoor Olympic Swimming Pool, Velodrome, Olympic Village and a giant man made lake, all designed by Skidmore Owings and Merrill of Chicago and A. Farmanfarmaian and Associates Architects, and all built with a future Tehran Olympic Games in mind. Arme Construction Company and its subsidiaries and affiliates including Parc des Princes Company, Vanak Park Company, Kamsaz Company, Paziran Company, were also responsible for building some of the Middle East"s largest private real estate development projects including the 200,000 square metre Parc des Princes and Vanak Park high rise communities and various commercial buildings in Tehran, including the Paziran, Pan American Oil Company and Iranian National Railways office buildings.
Abbas Milani, Director of Iranian Studies at Stanford University, in his book "Eminent Persians" (Syracuse University Press), names Amir Malekyazdi as one of the men and women who made modern Iran.
Through their companies Armeco Construction, Belmont Construction, Millennium Development Group and others they have continued their legacy of building roads, bridges, sewage treament plants, civic and municipal projects, and major award winning developments such as the 7 tower and 3 tower City in the Park and OMA projects in Burnaby, L"Hermitage, Lumiere and Alexandra towers in Downtown Vancouver, the Edgewater and Water"s Edge projects in West Vancouver, and the Vancouver Olympic Village for the 2010 Winter Olympic Games, to mention a few.
