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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”

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”

Expandability and variability versus façade demands and legal constraints at vertical residential schemes

© Chapman Taylor http://www.chapmantaylor.com Istanbul/ Madrid,  April 2020        “Strategies for optimizing the planning and rationalization of the building process characterize the architecture of the boom years” .  While in the 1960s and 1970s great attention was paid in planning to the adaptability of a building to changing user requirements, at Büyükyali we were facingContinueContinue reading “Expandability and variability versus façade demands and legal constraints at vertical residential schemes”