İstinye Park
İstinye Park is a shopping center in the İstinye quarter of Istanbul, Turkey with 291 stores, 85,250 m2 (917,600 sq ft) of retail area, and four levels of underground parking. The center features both enclosed and open-air sections. The open-air section has a green central park and offers street-side shopping. The center includes an authentic Turkish food bazaar- a traditional market place, inspired by Turkish architecture and history. Design and layoutIstinye Park has a gross area of 242,000 m2 (2,600,000 sq ft). There are three distinct sections present in the building:
The US architect, BCT Design Group Inc., based in Baltimore, designed the project. The design period -from conceptual, and schematic, to development- lasted for about a year. Ömerler Mimarlik, based in Istanbul, drafted construction drawings and handled implementation. The construction took 26 months from the first lay of the foundation until the grand opening. From the first sketch to the completion of the project, it took (2004–2007) 3 years in total.
TransportationCity buses number 29, 29B, 29P, 29S, 40B, 42, EL1, EL2 provides access to the center, and the center is a short walk east of İ.T.Ü.—Ayazağa metro station.[1] See alsoReferencesExternal linksMedia related to İstinye Park at Wikimedia Commons |