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Abandoned Buildings of Istanbul – Data Gathering – Hotel Building in Şişhane

This small abandoned building would not have catched our attention if it wasn’t for its unique location. Şişhane is a small neighborhood located in the heart of Istanbul. If one arrives in Istanbul and is taken directly to Şişhane, one might believe he/she is in any european city. The oppulence and beauty of its earlyContinueContinue reading “Abandoned Buildings of Istanbul – Data Gathering – Hotel Building in Şişhane”

Abandoned Buildings of Istanbul – Data Gathering – The Botter Apartments

We might say that the Botter apartment building falls into a different category of the Abandoned Buildings of Istanbul. All of the previously analyzed buildings were built in the final years of the XX century and either left abandoned during the construction process or never used after finished. In this case, we are talking aboutContinueContinue reading “Abandoned Buildings of Istanbul – Data Gathering – The Botter Apartments”

Covid Homes

Back to the Same Most of us would not have expected that after the first lockdowns, happening in mid-March this year, we would be almost in the same circumstances nine months later. Unfortunately the vaccine we all hoped for is not yet found and the measures implemented by most countries didn’t work has effectively asContinueContinue reading “Covid Homes”

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 – 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”

Covid Airports – A Canvas for Otherness

Disruption Until the Covid-19 crisis, airports were a point of convergence. Symbols and manifestations of globalization. They were places where thousands of people would gather in utter ignorance of each other’s presence. With the ‘’new normality’’, there is a timid approximation to that same state of things. The reality is that coming back to anContinueContinue reading “Covid Airports – A Canvas for Otherness”

Thoughts on Retail Space III

Functionalities that connect to Well-being, Learning and Education or Green Technologyies can add to that sense of being part of a collective system that is concerned with the good of a community.

Thoughts on Retail Space II

DIRECTIONS FOR RETAIL The new online tools are having a big impact on the consumption habits of customers, with more visibility within the younger generations. The selling strategies are also suffering major changes, using different media channels and supports which rely more on social media then in traditional advertisement. In order to grasp the newContinueContinue reading “Thoughts on Retail Space II”