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Project • By Uygur Architects • Offices
Şişli District Governor's Office
The real test of architecture is not an empty site but the capacity to settle, with care, into an existing culture and its urban fabric. The Şişli District Governor's Office begins from this premise. It stands at precisely such an urban threshold , in Cumhuriyet Mahallesi, at the corner where Halaskargazi Caddesi meets İzzetpaşa Sokağı, on block 1002, plot 70.
CEMAL EMDEN
Earlier, the same plot held the former Şişli Finance Office, a building bearing the signature of Münevver Belen, one of Turkey's first women architects. Over time this five-storey public building had lost its structural capacity in the face of Istanbul's seismic reality; unable to satisfy current codes, it had become a problem of urban safety. Once evacuated and... More
Project • By Sanja Premrn • Private Houses
Našahiša
An architect’s own family home is often an insight into their design ethos. Balancing the simplicity of rectilinear forms and raw materials such as stone, steel and glass with elegant, detailed interiors, it is a contemporary family home designed to stand the test of time.
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This modern home is located between typical single-dwelling houses from the 1970s and 1980s, which are mostly of two displaced volumes, all covered with gabled roofs. Rather than mimicking the existing surroundings, the new construction is slightly separated from them, without standing out. In fact, it is almost imperceptible.
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The project has 170 square meters on two floors and a terrace. The building location is an important... More