Şişli Island by Building Office

Haliç Masterplan

Zorlu Center

AKM2

Magi

Doğuş Media

Dubai Towers

Seyrantepe Stadium

Maslak Masterplan

Özgürlük Parkı

Grand Bazaar vs Cevahir Mall

Shopping Mall is not a new type of building for Istanbul.

First Draft of the Şişli Book

TR / EN

Building Office's interest in Sisli roots back in 2005. We believe the contemporary city of Istanbul is nothing but Sisli. Everything else is built and connected around the Sisli district that is often ignored because of its ugliness and generic characteristic. We aim to make Istanbul understand the potentials and importance of Sisli.
 

The absurd urban conditions and the potentials of Sisli amazes us and this book is strongly highlighting the failure of the modern architecture when it's applied on a topography like Istanbul from a global perspective.

Our interest is purely the organization of space which is supposed to be the subject of the profession: architecture no matter how it looks.
In order to understand the new world, after a century of the innovation of the modern architecture, we introduce the story of Sisli both in Turkish and English to the world.

Building Office was founded in 2006 and the Reading Office was founded in 2009 in London.

BO is interested both in the act of building and the phenomenon of building in every scale while RO focuses on the self criticism and communication of the work produced in the office with the outside world.

Reading Office also acts as a source for collecting, broadcasting information about interesting buildings all around the world while Building Office focuses only on the production of buildings.

Every year starting in mid-august, we recruit a team of building designers, structural and computer engineers for Building Office. We are interested in hiring critics, journalists, movie makers and graphic designers for the Reading Office.

Building Office / Reading Office

http://www.buildingoffice.net

info@readingoffice.net

Mehmet Tolgay

director of the Paper, Library

1981 born Paris, FR

1990 Lycée de Galatasaray, Istanbul, TR

2001 Sabanci University, Istanbul, TR

2008 IIT, Design Management, Chicago, USA

2010 McDonald's, Oak Brook, Illinois, USA

Meral Ekincioglu

editor in charge, editor in Turkish

1990 ITU, BSc Architecture, Istanbul, TR

2000 Arredamento Mimarlik, Istanbul, TR

2008 Columbia University, Preservation, USA

2009 Harvard University, History, USA

Suheyla Gizem Yucebag

director of the TV, Radio

1986 born Istanbul, TR

2004 Westminster University,Media, London,UK

2008 Sky Sports, London,UK

2009 BBC, London, UK

Senem Ekin Sen

editor in English and German

1979 born Ontario, Canada

1998 Istanbul University, English

2000 University of Toronto, English and German

2002 Humbolt University Berlin, Germany

Ali Oguz Bozkurt

editor on history

1985 born Istanbul, TR

1999 Robert College, Istanbul, TR

2003 Marmara University, Law, Istanbul, TR

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