Çanakkale Antenna Tower
The outcome of an international competition, this telecommunications tower in the city of Çanakkale includes a public space with viewing platforms, a visitor center, an área for exhibitions…
The outcome of an international competition, this telecommunications tower in the city of Çanakkale includes a public space with viewing platforms, a visitor center, an área for exhibitions…
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
Farming tasks are interwoven with educational initiatives and research projects in a facility that focuses on the challenges that agriculture has to confront in the face of climate change. The different programs are arranged in a linear scheme along
With its large undulating timber roof cantilevering 7,5 meters, this private house designed by Norman Foster’s firm is partly embedded into the terrain close to the Aegean Sea, in the southwestern Turkish province of Mu?la. Carefully inserted into a
Assembled together with wood strips, a series of stacked boxes house the new Odunpazari Museum of Modern Art in the Turkish city of Eskisehir, a university town with a large young population and a lively and active atmosphere. The plot is on the boun
The Istanbul practice of Emre Arolat and Gonca Paşolar built this culture and leisure center in the Turkish city of Bergama, over the foundations of what was the lower part of the Greek polis Pergamon. A footbridge bordered with vegetation connects t
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
Sobre una ladera de olivos y almendros que cae hasta el mar Egeo, en el pequeño pueblo de Büyükhusun, una familia acomodada de Estambul quería una casa de vacaciones y fines de semana para sus cuatro miembros y sus invitados. La parcela está situada
Two brothers chose the small village of Büykhüsun, on the coast of the Aegean Sea, to build their second residence, a house in which to spend weekends and holidays. The site, within a tightly knit farming community of no more than 500 inhabitants, is
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
Turkish authorities have issued more than 100 arrest warrants over collapsed buildings, amid warnings that the death toll from the earthquake that struck parts of Turkey and Syria could double from the current tally of 33,000. State media reported th
Architect turned photographer Yener Torun started taking pictures of colourful buildings in Istanbul in 2014. For his latest series, he has travelled round Turkey, to the likes of Ankara, Izmir and Antalya. He looks for clean lines, bright colours an
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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
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