Orchestrating the brilliance of individuals, rethinking an urban space, and creating an oasis.
Istanbul is a vibrant cacophony of culture and history straddling Asia and Europe that is dissected by the deep blue water of the Bosphorus. Its streets and architecture are a storybook that stretches across centuries. What Istanbul is not is a purpose-built city, rather each era is absorbed and assimilated, creating a tangled metropolis of more than 15 million people. As technology and youth pull Türkiye into the future, business districts display a skyline that is rapidly changing not unlike London or New York.
In a city where east literally meets west, Zorlu provided a unique opportunity for the WATG team to orchestrate the brilliance of individuals to rethink an urban space and create an oasis in Istanbul unlike anything seen before. John Goldwyn comments that “The approach was to think in terms of creating something that would have an effect on the user that would change the way they feel about the city”. Conventional thinking proposes that landscape in the city equals steps and fountains, and what WATG ended up doing thankfully was the complete antithesis of this. The thrill for the team is that people tell them all the time when they’re in Türkiye or meeting them in other places, that Zorlu is one of the most incredible things they have ever seen, and it really is.
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