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The new Atatürk Cultural Center (AKM) transforms a 1960’s classic for cultural life into a new urban magnet for future generations

Designed by Tabanlioglu Architects, the new Cultural Icon for Istanbul, the Ataturk Cultural Center, was unveiled on November 6th.

NEW ATATÜRK CULTURAL CENTER
LOCATION_ISTANBUL, TURKEY
CLIENT_REPUBLIC OF TURKEY, MINISTRY OF CULTURE AND TOURISM
YEAR_2017
TYPE_CULTURE
The Atatürk Cultural Center will be built to accommodate performances of international stature and designed to contemporary requirements and current technologies. As a very comprehensive urban structure, the center is also expected to be a major attraction for the city’s residents and thousands of tourists visiting from around the world.

Preservation, restoration, and a new 21st century design provide the foundation and future for this great social experiment and public project that will serve generations of visitors and future populations of Turkish citizens.

Set by the illustrative mountains, the project site’s backdrop is the triangular vision of the typical topography.

Basic decisions in developing the project have been integrating the design with natural landscape, and benefiting optimum natural daylight, while combating the climatic issues, like the wind.

Due to telescopic configuration, that is two -structurally dependent- high masses leaning against each other, with a void in between, interlinking at the top, which forms the triangular outline of the whole structure, each module receives optimum natural light at interiors in a controlled manner and the open panoramas granted to the most, where openness does not sacrifice privacy of individual units. Besides, the triangular figure of the structure breaks the monolithic sense of high-rises, so that the building becomes an elegant icon, and builds a visual harmony with the emblematic mountains of the city.

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