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Vourla House / GAD Architecture

Pilar Caballero — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 19:00:00 +0000

Located in Urla, formerly known by its Greek name Vourla and now called Urla, one of the most popular areas of Izmir in the Aegean region, this single-storey house with the highest ceilings (almost high enough to take a -mezzanine- together) offers its owners a life in touch with nature by combining functional use and sustainability. Located on a 6650 m² flat land, the group of buildings forms a holistic living space with the main building, guest house, and outbuilding block. The project has a regular layout that organizes day and night use of the interior spaces into private and public areas. Designed for homeowners who are contemporary art collectors, the wide corridors, personalized solutions, and comfortable living spaces create a gallery atmosphere.

Divan Kuruçeşme Venue / GAD Architecture

Hana Abdel — Sun, 31 Jul 2022 06:00:00 +0000

Text by Gökhan Karakuş. The restoration of historical architecture in Istanbul has been a fraught issue in the modern period. Istanbul is a city with a 6000-year-old history dating to the Neolithic period with layers upon layers of archaeological remains. Modern architecture and urban planning have often had to contend with these layers causing great disruptions to exist historical and archaeological traces of the city's past. The embedded geological, structural, and cultural past of Istanbul has in most cases been roughly repurposed and often completely destroyed in the modern period. The needs of the modern city, especially roads for automobiles and new dense urban commercial centers meant that prominent buildings from the Byzantine and Ottoman eras were largely erased from the cityscape. Buildings with architectural value such as the Ottoman İncili Köşk near the Topkapi Palace or the Direklerarası Byzantine era arcade in Fatih were razed in the 20th century due to the growth of the city's roads.

Enka Power Station Headquarters / GAD Architecture

Rayen Sagredo — Sat, 22 Dec 2018 21:00:00 +0000

Architecture for modern infrastructural systems such as transportation, energy or public utilities has consistently employed industrial materials to achieve material and structural continuity with the technical infrastructure they serve. In this administrative building for a natural gas power station for the ENKA company in the Adapazari region of western Turkey, a steel and glass architecture was applied wıth detailed attention to the rural context and operational needs of its engineering staff. The design for the ENKA Station administrative building responds to the technical requirements for managing the power station while also providing an exemplary office environment in a rural location. This is achieved through a structural aesthetic that provides ecological efficiencies and an optimal office environment for the staff. This architecture, a robust application of a building system in light steel and glass, generates a contemporary interior enviroment with both aesthetic and enviormental priorites. Sunlight, space and natural elements are balanced in the interior creating a postivie workplace but also importantly generating savings on electric energy, an important feature in a building for energy management.

Media City / GAD Architecture

Niall Patrick Walsh — Sun, 04 Jun 2017 16:00:00 +0000

Istanbul-based GAD Architecture have unveiled Media City, a multimedia-based industrial complex to serve Istanbul’s future airport, projected to be the world’s largest upon completion.

Swissotel Resort Bodrum Beach / GAD Architecture + Gokhan Avcioglu

Karen Valenzuela — Fri, 04 Sep 2015 16:00:00 +0000

Swissotel Resort Bodrum Beach is a coastal development in Turgutreis, on the Bodrum peninsula, Turkey, located on a gently sloping site with unobstructed sea-views of the Turgutreis marina. The project consists of a hotel with 60 enclosed rooms, 46 apartments, and 27 residential villas as well as a generous spa, gym and pool complex.

Eskisehir Hotel and Spa / GAD Architecture

Daniel Sánchez — Thu, 10 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0000

The city’s trademark is Porsuk River and sepiolite; which the city is quite rich with. Eskisehir has a rich, layered historical background thanks to its multiple former governments; including big civilisations such as Hittites, Phrygia, Alexandria, Rome, Byzantium, Anatolia Seljuk, and Ottoman Empire. Especially Odunpazari region has a great tourism potential with its untouched historical texture.

Trump Cadde / GAD Architecture

Cristian Aguilar — Wed, 09 Apr 2014 00:00:00 +0000

It’s so ambitious and courageous that the word food court just falls short.Caddeopens in Mecidiyeköy, Istanbul, bringing more than 25 carefully chosen fashion and lifestyle retailers and of course restaurants on Trump Towers’ roof terrace and turns it in to much more than what you might expect from any other mall.

Besiktas Fish Market Refurbishment / GAD Architecture

Diego Hernández — Fri, 06 Dec 2013 00:00:00 +0000

The refurbishment of the Besiktas Fish Market is not a design and realization process that was prosecuted in an accustomed manner. It is not intended to be carried through to an incomputable state. On the contrary, the aspiration is to initiate a dynamic outset by the gradual functional supplements and substitutions and even with the immediate effects of artistic approaches.

Haaz Design And Art Gallery / GAD

Andrew Rosenberg — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Haaz Design and Art Gallery is a space that combines furniture, design objects and art. The owners Özlem Avcıoğlu and Murat Patavi picked a new location for their new concept . This location is in Tesvikiye district – that is the most popular shopping district of Istanbul. Being the ground and first floors of an attached apartment, the space needed a renovation. The area was 200m2 with two stories.

Exploded House / GAD Architecture

Nico Saieh — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Bodrum is an Aegean, Mediterranean port-trade settlement with a history of more than three thousand years, including Hellenistic, Roman, Ottoman times.

Besiktas Fishmarket / GAD

Nico Saieh — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Located in one of Istanbul’s most populated and diverse neighborhoods, Besiktas is an eclectic area with a village-like atmosphere that is in the process of urban renewal.