Introducción Luis Esteban Polo, a quien ya hemos presentado al público de ARKollective en el artículo ‘’Los Hombres Libres’’, es, como allí también hemos dicho, un artista multifacetado, cuyo trabajo en pintura se desdobla en distintos abordajes. Si en trabajos como Fes o Les Hommes Libres le encontramos en ese eje basculante en que elContinueContinue reading “Arquitectura Blanquita y Colonial”
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Abandoned Buildings of Istanbul – Data Gathering – The TAT Towers
The TAT Towers The TAT Towers are probably the most intriguing case of all abandoned buildings in Istanbul. This office complex composed by two high rise towers is located in one of the most valuable locations in Istanbul, the area of Zencirlikuyu, right across the first Bosporus bridge, on the European side of the city.ContinueContinue reading “Abandoned Buildings of Istanbul – Data Gathering – The TAT Towers”
Abandoned Buildings of Istanbul – Data Gathering – The Merter AVM
The Merter AVM If you ask those living in Istanbul “Which is the first modern shopping mall in the city or even in the whole country?” Probably most would answer that it’s the Galleria Ataköy Shopping Mall, along the Marmara Sea coastline, on the way to the old Atatürk International Airport. However, there is aContinueContinue reading “Abandoned Buildings of Istanbul – Data Gathering – The Merter AVM”
Abandoned Buildings of Istanbul – Data Gathering – Diamond of Istanbul
The Diamond of Istanbul The Diamond of Istanbul as it is today. Photo by Joao Cruz Neves. According to the Wikipedia, the Diamond of Istanbul is the tallest building under construction in Istanbul. The article states that the building will rise 63 floors above ground and reach 311 meters. It also specifies that the functionalContinueContinue reading “Abandoned Buildings of Istanbul – Data Gathering – Diamond of Istanbul”
Abandoned Buildings of Istanbul – Data Gathering – The Bostanci AVM
The Unfinished Bostanci Shopping Center The Bostanci AVM (Shopping Center) South Building. Photo by Uğur Yavuz. The first ideas to build a Shopping Center in the Upper Bostanci area started in 1995, 25 years ago. A few years later the construction process started but, after the main rough works were done, it came to aContinueContinue reading “Abandoned Buildings of Istanbul – Data Gathering – The Bostanci AVM”
Abandoned Buildings of Istanbul – Data Gathering – The GPIH
THE GRAND PRESTIGE ISTANBUL HOTEL The GPIH seen from the Taraby Bayıarı Avenue. Photo by Joao Cruz Neves. During the 90’s, Uran Holding started the construction of the Grand Prestige Istanbul Hotel (GPIH) in the area of Hacıosman, on the top of the hills of the Tarabya neighborhood, over the European Bosphorus side. If itContinueContinue reading “Abandoned Buildings of Istanbul – Data Gathering – The GPIH”
Travelling Sketches (II) – A Praise to Cities
From small details to broader perspectives, drawing the city can easily become an addiction for architects. Understanding how men’s ultimate habitat developed and took over the natural territory is something almost irresistible. How the oldest cities seem to grow organically, in permanent adaptation to physical conditions and with an exponential empirical method of expansion. OrContinueContinue reading “Travelling Sketches (II) – A Praise to Cities”
Occidentalisms in Ottoman Architecture
Contaminations If in many western countries Orientalism became fashionable during the XVIII and XIX centuries, in the Ottoman Empire a similar process also happened, in the oposite direction. Through the centuries, the Ottoman architecture assimilated and added many influences to its own principles. In these two centuries, it was the winds blowing from the westContinueContinue reading “Occidentalisms in Ottoman Architecture”
El Cuaderno de Viajes (II)
Second Take This time, on the second article dedicated to Miguel Garcia’s travelling sketches, he presents us, with the same accute eye and gifted hand, his drawings using color. Hand sketchers tend to use simple black pens to make their drawings. Pilot pens or markers will do, in most ocasions. The time spent on makingContinueContinue reading “El Cuaderno de Viajes (II)”
El Cuaderno de Viajes (I)
Introducing Miguel I first met Miguel Garcia back in 2006, when I started working for a large international design firm in Madrid where, for my fortune, Miguel was also working. I was coming from a small ”boutique” sized design practice, developing residential projects and making public competitions. I had only six years of experience onContinueContinue reading “El Cuaderno de Viajes (I)”
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