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İstanbul- Zorlu Center project to be built on the State Highway Directorate’s land by Zorlu Gayrimenkul has been announced as the winner among 350 projects in the 2008 Cityscape Dubai Architectural Awards competition which is regarded among the most prestigious architecture award of the world. The project has been entitled to obtain master planning award which is a special jury award in the “mixed use” category.
Zorlu Center project to be built on the former State Highway Directorate’s land by Zorlu Gayrimenkul has been announced as the winner among 350 projects in the 2008 Cityscape Dubai Architectural Awards competition which is regarded among the most prestigious architecture award of the world. The project of Emre Arolat-Murat Tabanlıoğlu has been entitled in the 2008 Cityscape Dubai Architectural Awards the results of which was announced in October the 6th to obtain master planning award which is a special jury award in the “mixed use” category. The competitors do not apply to this award by themselves; rather they are designated by the jury.
Cityscape Architectural Awards supported by Royal Institute of British Architects and American Institute of Architects reward the architectural projects in the Gulf, Middleeast, Asia, Africa, India, Japan, New Zealand, Australia and Latin America regions. The awards have been issued for 5 years and followed by leading architects and architecture offices in the world.
Mr. Ahmet Zorlu Ergül, General Director of Zorlu Gayrimenkul Geliştirme ve Yatırım AŞ (Zorlu Real Estate Development and Investment Inc) emphasized that they were pleased with the award given to the Zorlu Center project and added:
“Our dream of realizing “a monumental structure that will be talked about for 50 years” which we want to present to İstanbul has been further strengthened with this award. I would like to thank to and congratulate once again Mr. Emre Arolat and Mr. Murat Tabanlıoğlu for letting us have this magnificent project.”
Adds up 5 different functions
The project of Emre Arolat and Murat Tabanlıoğlu which plans to create a new city center and a unique park aims to be added as a new chain to the public space construct of İstanbul. It breaks the structural and social norms of the known shopping centers with its rich semi-open spaces and brings a unique description of city square. A big scale concert hall as planned to provide a significant contribution to the cultural life of İstanbul becomes one of the important parts of the project.
Social and cultural works come into the forefront in the Zorlu Center project which is planned to be completed before the 2010 European Capital of Culture activities. The project covers social and cultural structures like conference halls, concert hall, museum and library and it is a candidate to become a “trendsetter” in the real estate sector due to its “mixed use” feature including five different functions for the first time in Turkey with the hotel, business center, shopping center and residences. The construction of the project started with the foundation improvement and it is planned to complete the social and cultural center and the shopping center in 2010 and the hotel, business center and residence functions in 2011.
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