Fenerbahce 100th Year Logo

Being strong Galatasaray supporters, both myself and Mehmet Tolgay, we worked for the 100th year celebrations logo for Fenerbahce in 2005 November. The logo was designed to be used on the Fenerbahce products of the 2006-2007 season. We have not won anything in the competition, yet it was a fun process for us. Our collaboration was called to+bu, standing for tolgay + burak.

Ida Farmhouse

For the past three months, we have been busy designing with the best clients we have ever had a house with a beautiful Ida Mountains view on the north of the Aegean Sea. The Farmhouse became a milestone project for Building Office. Looking forward to the future of this concept design and similar clients with great vision for modern architecture.

Ida Farmhouse

Bursa Ataturk Spor Salonu

Building Office / Aras Burak’s latest competition entry for Bursa Ataturk Sports Center is a transformable building that is able to convert from sports center into a concert/event hall. Another disappointing competition effort done in Turkey with no recognition in terms of awards. Special thanks to Aris Kozmidis of ARUP and Gözde Kızılkan, Architect for collaboration. Find more on Building Office website.

ITU Competiton Entry

Project is a design proposal for one of the most historical education institutions in Turkey, Istanbul Technical University, Isletme Fakultesi, Business School building. The existing 1960’s designed building is a series of masses that are spread on-site, connected with walkway masses — the program provided in brief for the new building almost required to fill the whole site. There was also a height restriction to match the height of the neighboring historical Macka campus. Between this historical Macka campus building and the new building, there is also a formerly Ottoman police station nowadays used by ITU. We wanted to avoid having a huge mass begging for attention from the main street at the same time we wanted the new campus to be iconic and exciting for its students, academics. After analyzing the given brief, we decided to split all admin into one single building, orient it to the site edge, which also coincides with a great view of Bosphorus. The rest of the program was catered for the students, where we thought the stacked mass of amphitheaters could efficiently work within the massing of a cylinder. The connection between the buildings is thought to be within the podium level, where the ceiling of this podium meets the topographical edges of the site; therefore the podium seems buried underground.

BUILDING OFFICE ARAS BURAK STRUCTURE ARIS KOZMIDIS / ARUP LOS ANGELES MODEL MAKERS ATOLYE 78 ESREF MADANLAR, RACI GOREN

Find more at buildingoffice.com

Music in the Park

Building Office has revealed or competition entry for the Tautos Namai Concert Hall in Vilnius. Our concept was to promote classical music not only in the concert hall also in the park. Thanks to Harun Ekerbicer and Roland Diamante for the effort and support!  BUILDING OFFICE LINK

AERIAL VIEW FOR THE CONCERT HALL © Building Office

INTERIOR OF THE MAIN HALL © Building Office

Shortlisted for Young Architect of the Year, Middle East

https://www.middleeastarchitect.com/41053-mea-awards-2018-shortlist-young-architect-of-the-year

The 11th annual Middle East Architect Awards recognizes the best projects and people in the architecture community across the Middle East. With projects ranging from the world’s tallest towers to one-off villas, and individual nominations from veteran designers as well as bright young architects just starting out, the Middle East Architect Awards are the benchmark of success in the Middle East’s architecture sector.

We invite nominations from across the region, and draw on an expert panel of judges to award only the very best projects and people. With Middle East Architect’s reach into the region, including key markets such as Saudi Arabia, expect a diverse range of nominees and winners that represent a broad cross-section of the region.

Despite a challenging economic climate, the Middle East Architect Awards has grown every year since its inception, and 2018 is set to be no different with awards being presented across 13 categories at a gala dinner ceremony on Wednesday 21st November which is not to miss for anyone that works in the design or architecture sector.