At the edge of the medieval Galata district, facing the Bosphorus, a building with industrial airs has replaced the obsolete facilities of what was the country’s first museum of contemporary art.
The Atatürk Cultural Center first opened in Istanbul in 1969 as the Palace of Culture, following a project drawn up by Hayati Tabanlıoğlu (1927-1994). Located on the edge of Taksim Square, the building partly burned down two years after its inaugura
The Istanbul Modern Museum in the historic Galata Port district of Istanbul is located on the waterfront of the western bank of the Bosphorus, facing the Sultan Ahmet quarter. A new building will replace the existing one located between the old city
Sequences of towers on open expanses of land: this has been the building strategy used in Istanbul over the last decades. Through civic empowerment strategies, the scheme proposes a positive panorama for these neighborhoods.
This mosque located outside Istanbul sinks into the terrain to become a cavern for prayer with an atmosphere defined by the tenuous light emanating from the Qibla.
The project wishes to integrate the building in its mountainous surroundings with an M-shaped volume that opens up to the city offering new spaces such as squares, intimate gardens and large terraces inspired by the curves and slopes of the landscape
The project transforms Yenikapi into the central node of trade in Turkey, where the seaport of Istanbul will converge with the railway network, a new gate connecting Europe and Asia...
The project’s main objective is to sew the various urban fabrics that exist in a city with fourteen million inhabitants, currently sectored with pathways and mobility infrastructures...
Istanbul, one of the cities in which more civilizations have lived throughout history, is an urban palimpsest, a collision of space and time where different cultures coexist...
El distrito de Umraniye, en la zona asiática de Estambul, es una agrupación de barrios de origen obrero que cuenta con unos 850.000 habitantes. Aunque desde los años cincuenta existen grandes extensiones de chabolas, el distrito es objeto actualmente
The Republic of Turkey celebrates its centenary on 29 October 2023. Founded by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk on the ruins of the Ottoman Empire, and led for the past two decades by Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the country in February suffered earthquakes that left
Tourists traveling today to the great city of Istanbul will be finding it harder to frame with their cameras and mobile phones the image that the age-old city has had up to very recently: that of a vast, dense, and ancient hamlet marked by the vertic
A specter haunts the world: the rebellion of the middle classes. In the latest episode, the cities of Brazil and Turkey have been the scene of an uprising against political and economic elites by young people summoned through social networks and prov
