Zorlu Gateway Center | Coop Himmelb(l)au

Monofunctional structures do not correspond to the architecture and the urban development of the 21st century. Future urban development will mirror the complexity of people’s intellectual and material lives. This is why not only the media represent the urban culture of tomorrow, but architecture does too. For us, a city must convey diversity and tension. Coop Himmelblau, 1990 In response to the brief for a new, 550,000 square meter, landmark, mixed-use facility for a prominent site in Istanbul, we propose a new model city-center as a signal for future development and an iconic gateway to the emerging new central business district of the City. The “Zorlu Gateway Center” is formed by the overlapping of public and private spaces of living, working, meeting, shopping and leisure in a networked system of dense and lively public, commercial and urban spaces.