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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”