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René Ammann | 10.02.2023

Number

Approximate number of buildings in the affected earthquake zone in southern Turkey that were given “construction amnesties”: legal exemptions for the payment of a fee, for structures built without the...


John Hill | 29.06.2022

Found

More than a decade in the making, the new home for the Istanbul Painting and Sculpture Museum opened to the public in December. Photographs taken by Thomas Mayer capture the design by EAA-Emre Arolat Architecture, whose most striking features are the boxes bathed in red light that cantilever...


John Hill | 22.06.2022

Film

Foster + Partners has shared an episode of the Sky Arts documentary series The Art of Architecture that is devoted to the firm's Dolunary Villa in Kaplankaya, Turkey.


René Ammann | 03.06.2022

Number

Share of the world's 250 biggest contractors who are Turkish and are challenging China as leading builder in Africa: 40


René Ammann | 14.03.2022

Number

Average property price per square meter in Turkey: $736 (€646)


René Ammann | 23.08.2021

Number

Number of trees that were cut down to build a 17-kilometer access road to the 300-room resort of Turkish president Erdogan in Marmaris: 50,000


Ulf Meyer | 06.06.2019

Building of the Week

The Erimtan Museum in Ankara, Turkey, designed by Ayşen Savaş with Can Aker and Onur Yüncü, is, in the words of Ulf Meyer, a well-kept secret on the same level with some of Carlo Scarpa's finest works.


Ulf Meyer | 16.01.2019

Insight

Europe has a new center: Istanbul Airport. In the 19th century major train stations were celebrated as "cathedrals of traffic." Thus the new mega-airports in the Middle East could be called "mosques of...


Anmahian Winton Architects | 28.11.2017

Works

The Ankara Office Tower is a fourteen-story office building in Ankara, Turkey, that serves local and international high-tech companies engaging with leading universities and research institutes in the nation’s capital.


Eray Carbajo | 11.05.2017

Works

Eray Carbajo announces Urban Rural, a new dwelling typology for a sustainable transformation strategy that will become exemplar for Istanbul's future redevelopment, with construction completion in 2019.


Tago Architects | 28.02.2017

Works

Located on one of the most important life and finance centers of Istanbul, Ulugöl Otomotiv Office Building, designed by Tago Architects was approached as integrating a functional, genuine and qualified architectural design with its dynamic form and its frontal identity that will stick in the...


John Hill | 21.10.2016

Headlines

The 3rd Istanbul Design Biennial, ARE WE HUMAN?: The Design of the Species: 2 seconds, 2 days, 2 years,200 years, 200,000 years, organized by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts and curated by Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley opens tomorrow.


HPP Architects | 17.06.2016

Works

The first HPP project in Turkey is complete. The split tower rises 110 meters into the sky above the Kozyatağı financial district.


John Hill, CM Mimarlik | 28.08.2015

Works

A Modern Apartment Emerges From the Meeting of the Two Separately Perceived Prisms: Gokturk 118


GAD Architecture | 20.11.2014

Works

A modular sculptural installation, designed by award-winning Istanbul and New York based architectural practice GAD Architecture, was featured recently in Istanbul’s famous Taksim Square during Istanbul Design Week.