Santral Istanbul Museum of Contemporary Arts / NSMH + EAA - Emre Arolat Architecture

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Text description provided by the architects. The Golden Horn has been Istanbul’s center and stage for centuries before it lost its glamour starting from the end of the 19th century, and gradually became drabber until the 1990s when it was rediscovered, and for the last 15 years, it has started captivating the city once again thanks to many new projects. Bilgi University offered to carry out the renovation and transformation of the Silahtarağa Power Plant into a museum and recreation and educational center; this typical modern industrial installation constructed between the 1910s and 1950s occupies a 107,000-m² lot forming a sort of peninsula between the Alibeyköy and Kağıthane creeks right where the Golden Horn ends.

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