Istanbul, Turkey
REX
Post By:Kitticoon Poopong
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| Photo © Courtesy of Iwan Baan, REX |
The internationally-renowned architecture and design firm
REX recently has completed the
Vakko Fashion Center and Power Media Center in Istanbul, Turkey. The project will serve as
corporate headquarters of Vakko (
Turkey’s preeminent
fashion house) and Power Media (Turkey’s best-known music and
television network). It was built based on the existing abandoned hotel’s structure, REX divided the project into two structurally independent components – The outer ring concrete skeleton and the center ring for a set of steel boxes named the Showcase, it also acts to serve the circulation path that winds from bottom to top of the Showcase.