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YP Auditorium / CAA.Studio

Hana Abdel — Sat, 10 Jun 2023 15:00:00 +0000

METU campus, with its well-designed and sustained spaces, stands as an important case in Turkish architecture. The campus, designed after a project competition held in 1961 and constructed in the 1980s by architects Altuğ ve Behruz Çinici has a holistic architectural language. This language originates from the brutalist approach in which building materials such as concrete and brick were used in their bare forms.

Next Level / Brigitte Weber Architects

Daniel Tapia — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 15:00:00 +0000

The axis of the Eskişehir-Konya roads transforms this area of Ankara into the city's most rapidly developing and valuable part. This north-south & west-east intersection point on the main transportation arteries has at the same time developed into an urban space where not only the business world and social life meet at this center, but also attracts people as a new and trendy residential area. Next Level has been designed as the Turkish Capital's first mixed property project and comprises offices, residences, and a shopping mall. The design of the Next Level is inspired by its strategic location and reflects the region's vigorous development and active life in the general layout and the facade of its buildings.

METU Research Center / EAA - Emre Arolat Architecture

Bianca Valentina Roșescu — Sun, 24 Apr 2022 21:00:00 +0000

The Middle East Technical University (METU) is one of the oldest and most prestigious Turkish universities. Research is one of the most important activities of the institution. This project was conceived with the plan to unite twenty-three existing research facilities sponsored by the university in a single complex, increasing interaction amongst those involved.

Lisette Bakery / Nēowe

Bianca Valentina Roșescu — Tue, 19 Apr 2022 14:00:00 +0000

Nēowe delivered a luxurious and bespoke retail space showcasing Lisette's finely decorated chocolates, cakes, and icecreams like the treasures found in a jeweler’s shop. The color palette inspired by Lisette’s brand identity can be seen reflected in the materials and details inside the space. Alongside the custom terrazzo surfaces, reflective installations covering the ceiling, brass, and stained glass used on the front façade emphasize the sophisticated, elegant, and characteristic feeling of the brand that reflects into space. Inspired by the signature half dome chocolates of the brand, Lisette’s 44 sqm interior space, with its highly detailed manufacturing and material mixture, offers a memorable experience for the visitors.

The Presidential Symphony Orchestra Concert Hall and Choir Buildings / Uygur Architects

Hana Abdel — Sat, 30 Oct 2021 19:00:00 +0000

Ankara has a new landmark with an international appeal; The Presidential Symphony Concert Hall building with its focus on culture aims to prove an asset to both the local and global music scene while being the instigator of interaction and exchange among citizens.

TED Ankara College Foundation Performing Arts Center / Uygur Architects

Hana Abdel — Mon, 25 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000

The project, which won the architectural project competition for the Ted Ankara College Campus with a capacity of 6000 students in 1998, was implemented in 2005 and educational activities have begun. Conceptualized and designed by Semra Uygur and Özcan Uygur, this campus is a city simulation accomplished adopting the principle that education should create its own urban life even if it is in an area remote from the city.

“Designing with People” Online Conferences on 16th and 23rd of March 2021

Rene Submissions — Fri, 12 Mar 2021 11:30:00 +0000

UCTEA Chamber of Architects of Turkey is organizing a series of online conferences called “Designing with People”. With the support of the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture program, in these conferences, valuable laureates of the program will be giving lectures talking about their approach in architecture and/or urban planning, their ethical and design approach, and their ideas and development of participation processes. Moderated by Prof. Dr. Deniz İncedayı, President of the Chamber of Architects of Turkey, Prof. Dr. Jana Revedin, Founding President of the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture, and Marie-Helene Contal, Director of the Department of Cultural Development, Cité

Merkez Ankara Showroom / Yazgan Design Architecture

Pilar Caballero — Sat, 07 Nov 2020 21:00:00 +0000

Merkez Ankara Showroom is a 2.415 sqm building located in Turkey. The building is a sales office for Merkez Ankara, which is a mixed-use project of residences and offices. It contains mock-up apartment flats, administrative and sales offices, and small inner and outer gardens. The principal design idea is to integrate nature into architecture through the use of gardens. The inner courtyards and outer backyards are placed between the open spaces sequentially.

Bilkent University Student Residences / FXCollaborative

Andreas Luco — Fri, 27 Dec 2019 19:00:00 +0000

Sited along a gentle slope, this co-educational residence provides much-needed student housing for Bilkent University’s main campus in western Ankara. The constricted project site, adjacent to another, older student residence building, led the design team to distribute the program in an L-shaped configuration to create a courtyard between the two structures. The longer of the new building’s two wings is adjacent to, and as far as possible from, the existing dormitory, allowing ample sunlight to reach the courtyard.

Atakule New Life Center / A Tasarim Mimarlik

Pilar Caballero — Fri, 04 Oct 2019 20:00:00 +0000

A landmark defining Ankara's silhouette, Atakule.
This project is about the ATAKULE's resurrection. Perching on city's highest peak in Çankaya, at the southern tip of the Atatürk Boulevard, which is one of the critical axes on Jansen's Plan (1928-1932) ATAKULE has long been identified with the city of Ankara. The tower was baptized in a referendum when people voted to name it after the founder and the first president of the Republic, Atatürk; hence the name Atakule (kule, meaning tower).

Hacettepe University- Museum and Center For Biodiversity / Erkal Architects

Daniel Tapia — Fri, 18 Jan 2019 01:00:00 +0000

Situated at the perimeter of the expanse of Hacettepe University's Beytepe Campus in Ankara, Museum, and Center for Biodiversity building house scientific research facilities and exhibition spaces devoted to scientific materials on the topic of biodiversity. Beytepe Campus is on the main development axis in Ankara, the westward highway to Eskişehir, which creates severe pressure of urbanization and land fragmentation.

Kumru Ankara / A Tasarim Mimarlik + Ali Osman Ozturk

Pilar Caballero — Fri, 30 Nov 2018 23:00:00 +0000

Kumru Ankara was designed in the one of the most important residential areas of Ankara, Çankaya, Yıldız neighborhood, parallel to the Turan Güneş Boulevard which is one of the main axes of the Ankara.

Yasamkent Mosque / A Tasarim Mimarlik + Ali Osman Ozturk

Daniel Tapia — Thu, 13 Sep 2018 23:00:00 +0000

With their powerful and dominant iconography, based upon tradition, mosque architecture is one of the most conservative building typologies in the Turkish context. On the other hand, referring traditional and local values creating a sense of sustainability had always been a major challenge in a modern understanding of mosque architecture.

Ankara Office Tower / Anmahian Winton Architects

Daniel Tapia — Sat, 23 Dec 2017 02:00:00 +0000

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. Urbanistically, the project plays an important role in a rapidly developing area west of Ankara’s old city centre, knitting together a transit corridor, a pedestrian underpass, an emerging mixed-use neighbourhood, and new commercial areas. In response to this immediate context, the building is set back from the highway, making space for a bamboo grove that buffers a habitable urban garden and provides a much-needed pedestrian connection between the transportation node and the adjacent neighbourhood.

Keypark / VEN Architecture

Karen Valenzuela — Sun, 31 May 2015 12:00:00 +0000

The project is located at the junction of two busy boulevards, Alacaatl and Beyler blvd. The units constitute a wide low rise commercial campus, spread on an inclined corner lot, giving different volume and depth perception from different perspectives.

Tobb Etü Technology Center / A Architectural Design

Karen Valenzuela — Sun, 02 Nov 2014 01:00:00 +0000

Tobb Economy and Technology University that has been established in Ankara is an urban-scale architectural transformation and development project. Once used for secondary education, the existing buildings have been given new functions as the core of the university. Within the scope of the master plan work, in time, neighboring new areas have been added to the campus and new areas of development have been planned. This development phase has focused on the formation of an urban texture, aiming for the transformation of the immediate periphery into an education-and-student-intensive urban quarter.

Turkish Contractor's Associaton HQ / AVCI Architects

Karen Valenzuela — Fri, 09 May 2014 01:00:00 +0000

The project was the result of a limited design competition with a brief that placed a great interest in leading environmental design approaches. Thus the project team set up from the onset was a multidisciplinary group, both international and local which included Atelier Ten from London as environmental engineers. The completed building is already regarded as a showcase of leading edge environmental design, which has raised the bar not only for designers and clients alike in Ankara but the whole of Turkey. Indeed such a building would not find itself out of place even on the streets of London or New York.

Modsim / Yazgan Design Architecture

Daniel Sánchez — Thu, 24 Apr 2014 00:00:00 +0000

METU MODSIM is a building situated in a land of 5.200sqm. that is both bound to and diverts from its context. On one hand, it greets contextual values considering the façade color, the building height, levels of the site, the direction of the sun and the pedestrian axis. Being at the midst of a poplar forest, the building façade is a reflection of all greens of the surrounding.