Istanbul Courthouse
1949
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This building was the result of an architectural competition held in 1949. The project was to be built on an area behind the palace of Ibrahim Pasha and along an area parallel to Sultan Ahmet Square consisting of a block containing the law courts and the main block for the judiciary and penal courts situated along Divanyolu Avenue facing Sultan Ahmet Square. However, only the block for the law-courts was completed as the second block was abandoned when the area for it was found to contain the remains of the Byzantine Church of Saint Euphemia and the Palace of Lausos. After the death of
in 1961, put forward a design for a new construction which took into account the Byzantine remains, and this project was put into effect.
The Courthouse, with leanings towards the international realism of today, is considered to be a turning-point in Turkish Architecture and in the career of as a forerunner of the International Movement which was to become widely used by Turkish architects during the 1950s.
The buiding features wide eaves, a vertical rhythm of columns and windows, and a neoclassic symmetry, all of which form an extension of the Second National Architectural Movement. The plain concrete surfaces of the supports , the simple rationalism, the dominant vertical line, the wide windows and decorative elements, cleansed of traditional features, are indications of the new trend.
Sources:
Atilla Yücel; "Adliye Sarayı", Istanbul Ansiklopedisi, Vol. 1, Kültür Bakanlığı-Tarih Vakfı Ortak yayını, İstanbul 1993.
Sibel Bozdoğan, Suha Özkan, Engin Yenal; "Sedad Eldem", Concept Media, Singapore 1987
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