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Carpet - Alper

Aytac’s Golden

Horn Library

wins Architizer

A+Awards

İstanbul, Turkey

lper Aytac’s design for the Golden Horn Library was selected as
a 2021 Architizer A+ Awards Jury Winner in the Institutional
A- Unbuilt category. The Golden Horn Library will be located
in Galata, a historic neighbourhood at the crossroads of Istanbul,
Turkey’s cultural and visual memories.

The Galata District was once the Genoese quarter of the city and was
surrounded by its own city walls and towers. Today, nearly all the
walls are gone, but the iconic Galata Tower remains and provides the
district with its identity.

The Golden Horn Library looks across the waters of the Golden Horn
to the Historical Peninsula, overlooking the seven hills of Istanbul,
each hill crowned with its own monument. Views include Hagia
Sophia, Nuruosmaniye Mosque, Suleymaniye Mosque, The Cistern

View from the Golden Horn
Photo credit: Alper Aytac

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