New Visions for Pedestrian Footbridge Design Competition winner / LEA Invent & Burcak Pekin
Paris-based LEA Invent along with Burcak Pekin shared with us their winning proposal for the Pedestrian Footbridge Design Competition in Fatih Vatan Street, Istanbul, Turkey. More images and architect’s description after the break.
New Bursa Stadium (Hexagon Park) / stadiumconcept
Stadia experts stadiumconcept shared with us their New Bursa Stadium, designed for the Turkey Bid UEFA Euro 2016. More images and architect’s description after the break.
Urban Design Project for Izmit Shoreline / Ervin Garip
Ervin Garip shared with us his competition entry for the Urban Design Competition for the shoreline of Izmit, Turkey where he was awarded the first prize. For this competition, his main goal was to improve the daily social life by creating urban squares, seafront recreation, new urban parks and annotating the required program with a holistic approach. More images and architect’s description after the break.
Winners of the 2010 Aga Kahn Award for Architecture
Of a total of 410 projects, five have been selected for the 2010 Aga Khan Award for Architecture at the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha. The five projects, selected by a Master Jury are:
- Wadi Hanifa Wetlands, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- Revitalisation of the Hypercentre of Tunis, Tunisia
- Madinat Al-Zahra Museum, Cordoba, Spain
- Ipekyol Textile Factory, Edirne, Turkey
- Bridge School, Xiashi, Fujian, China
For more information on the winners and images read on after the break.
Landmark on Cebeli Hill / 1/1 Architecture
Turkish Architects 1/1 Architecture has sent us their proposal for the Landmark Project on Cebeli Hill in Antalya, Turkey. More images and a quick architects description after the break.
Student Center & Public Square Architectural Competition proposal / Onat Öktem & Ziya Imren
Turkish architects Onat Öktem and Ziya Imren shared with us their proposal for the Student Center & Public Square Architectural Competition at the Middle East Technical University, for which they received an honorable mention. See more images and architect’s description after the break.
Traveltime International Workshop in Turkey
Traveltime is an international summer workshop that will take place in the island of Imvros/Gökçeada between 7-15 August. The intensive 9-day design workshop is open to all architecture students who are interested in relationships between theory and practice. Participants will investigate ways of understanding a place with its history, memory, geography, nature and culture through travels, readings, and performances on the island in order to develop individual and group design work.
Traveltime will initiate participation, active involvement, and creative production. Organization intend this event to evolve around daily performances, readings and discussions from architectural discourse and other fields such as art, music, gastronomy, philosophy, and literature.
For more information, visit the workshop’s official website.
İzmir Opera House Competition Entry
Architects Kutlu İnanç Bal and Hakan Evkaya shared with us their proposal for the İzmir Opera House Competition in Turkey. See more images after the break.
MerSea’N Maria / Oncuoglu+ACP Architecture
Turkish practice Oncuoglu+ACP Architecture shared with us this new marina project in Mersin, a coastal city on Mediterranean Sea of Turkey designed not just as a marina project but an transitional space between the city and sea.
More images, drawings and a brief description after the break.
“Murat Gunduz – 2 Temmuz Canlar” MemorialPark / 1/1 Architecture
Turkish Architects 1/1 Architecture sent us this 2nd prize winner entry for the “Murat Gunduz – 2 Temmuz Canlar” MemorialPark Competition in Sivas, Turkey.
Some more images and the architects description after the break.
Izmir Opera House / Ozel Office
Ozel Office, a practice based in both LA, California and Istanbul, Turkey, has designed a competition proposal for an Opera House for Izmir, a port town off the Aegean Coast. The competition challenged participants to see architecture as a “catalyst” that could potentially help the city re-center itself as a hub of economic activity and source of cultural significance. The collaborative effort within the office, especially led by Guvenc Ozel and Erdim Kumkumoglu, produced a proposal where the ”architecture becomes a catalyst that reinforces the relationship between the old city, the new city, the waterfront and urban culture. In short, our vision is a synergy of spatial, cultural as well as practical and contextual aesthetics.”
More images and more about the project after the break.
URBZ Mashup Workshop in Istanbul
URBZ continues its experimentation with local knowledge production, collective creativity, individual expression and radical pedagogy in Istanbul with the Mashup Workshop, which will bring together local residents, travellers, thinkers, creators, doers and other enthusiasts in the neighbourhood of Sishane-Galata.
Just as many other parts of Istanbul, Sishane-Galata needs to redefine itself in a context that keeps on expanding. Well known for its bazaar-like atmosphere and tight social networks, Sishane-Galata is a not-so-global neighbourhood in a city that seems to constantly grow and stretch itself. Just as Istanbul is being celebrated as a global city at the centre of a vast sphere of economic and cultural influence, the same global, regional and metropolitan powers are forcing so many localities to redefine their functions and identities.
he workshop’s output will be a multimedia portrait of the neighbourhood and its broader context, using all forms of expression available, including video, photo, sound, design, drawing, fiction, performance, and painting. The material produced will be published on urbz.net and madeinsishane.com. The workshop will raise awareness locally and globally, promote the neighbourhood and its residents, assist them in their advocacy, and hopefully influence planning and policy-making. For more information, click here.
Levent Loft / Tabanlioglu
Architects: Tabanlıoğlu Mimarlık / Melkan Gürsel & Murat Tabanlıoğlu
Location: Istambul, Turkey
Project Team: Hacer Akgün, Volkan Lokumcu, Eda Lerzan Tunçbil, Süleyman Akkaş, Ahmet Çorapçıoğlu, Ali Çalışkan, Emre Apak, Kaan Keleş, Handan Dama Bilgi
Structural Engineering: Balkar Mühendislik
Mechanical Engineering: Gn Mühendislik
Electrical Engineering: HB Teknik
Landscape Consultant: Akgöze Landscape Design
Main Contractor: Akfen İnşaat Turizm ve Ticaret A.Ş.
Project Management: Altaca İnşaat
Site Area: 3,900 sqm
Project Area: 30,000 sqm
Project Year: 2006-2007
Photographs: Helene Binet, Thomas Mayer & Cemal Emden
Retail Center / Global Architecture Development
Global Architecture Development (GAD), an Istanbul and New York based firm, is working on a 25,000 m² shopping center in Turkey. The new retail area injects the area with a larger sense of urban renewal. The center’s facade consists of alternating surfaces that respond to their different orientations. The scale of materiality and designs of the facades try to respond to the different surrounding conditions, whether it be residential, commercial, or urban infrastructure.
More images after the break.
“In remembrance of Sinan the Great” Competition proposal
Architects Kutlu İnanç Bal and Hakan Evkaya shared with us their proposal for “In remembrance of Sinan the Great” a National Competition of Mosque Architecture in Turkey. Their proposal received one of six equivalent first prize awards.
More images after the break.
Mosque Proposal / StudiOZ
StudiOZ designed a mosque in Kayseri Municipality in memory of Sinan, the architect because historically, the Turkish mosque reached its highest potential under his design. Using a single dome placed upon a square form, Sinan created a metaphor of the mosque being the most stable form to symbolize infinity. Hundreds of years after Sinan, the mosque typology is still viewed as an indispensable component of Turkish life. For the StudiOZ’s proposal, “The Mosque” criticizes this holy and public place by reforming benefits to urban space, symbolically and functionality of the building.
More images after the break.
