Istanbul, Turkey
Designed by Melike Altinişik and their team at Istanbul’s Melike Altinişik Architects, the new 1,210-foot-tall (369m) Istanbul TV & Radio Tower for the Ministry of Transportation and Communication has already become one of the city’s new identifiable landmarks.
The design team sought to generate surprising encounters through its use of light, nature, and spatial spaces.
The rhythmically undulating tower is defined by its sculptural and organic geometry, the project seeks a sense of motion within its silhouette that changes when viewed from different perspectives across the city. the form of the tower offers a reflection of the rolling topography on which the city is built, and is further informed by wind direction and the optimization.
Its architectural language seeks to hybridize elegance and beauty with mathematics and geometry, whose innovative concept allows occupiable spaces to be attached to the whole of the tower’s core.
The structure houses a two-story restaurant and observation deck which overlooks distant, 360-degree views across both Asia and Europe.
The tower base hosts a public foyer, café, and exhibition and mediatic areas inside the entrance podium.
“The art of natural lighting allowed the designers to use light as a design material, as well as shaping the space and creating extraordinary spaces,” states Melih Altinişik.
The tower offers an adventure focused on nature and landscape.
The strong bond between architecture and light is highlighted by the glass surfaces which tell the importance of this material.
In this adventure, the grey-tinted glass forms a threshold between the exterior and the interior, while the thermal conditions are optimally provided for the users.
Project: Istanbul TV & Radio Tower
Architects: Melike Altinişik Architects
Design Team: Melike Altınışık in collaboration with Daniel Widrig
Project Team: Tan Akıncı, Begüm Aktaş, İrem Coşkun, Gül Ertekin, Büşra Güler, Çiğdem Nur Kebapçı, Selçuk Kişmir, Thomas Kleinow, Samed Tezgah, Ahmet Ünveren, Alev Cansu Ovalı, Ali Arslan, Yunus Emre Demirkıran, Zoe Georgio, Mazyvdas Samuolis, and Beste Sensöz
Landscape Architects: DS Architecture
Structural Engineers: Balkar
Structural Peer Review: Thorton Tomasetti
Telecommunication Engineers: Abe Teknoloji
Client: UDHB Ministry of Transportation and Communication
Photographers: NAARO