Ankara Office Tower, Mixed-Use Building Development, Incek Architecture Images
Ankara Office Tower in Turkey
Turkish Retail, Restaurant and Office Building – design by Anmahian Winton Architects
23 Nov 2017
Ankara Office Tower
Design: Anmahian Winton Architects
Location: Incek, Ankara, Turkey
Ankara Office Tower

photo © Anmahian Winton Architects
Urbanistically, the project plays an important role in a rapidly developing area west of Ankara?s old city center, knitting together a transit corridor, a pedestrian underpass, an emerging mixed-use neighborhood, and new commercial areas. In response to this immediate context, the building is set back from the highway, making space for a bamboo grove that buffers a habitable urban garden and provides a much-needed pedestrian connection between the transportation node and the adjacent neighborhood. The tower itself is distinguished by clarity of expression: a simple, geometric glass volume encasing a stack of large scale, horizontal louvers, set in a lush landscape.
photos © Florian Holzherr
At the ground level, the lobby, reception, and a café provide public spaces which scale, enclosure, and use of light reference regional culture. A perforated exterior screen surrounds the café, reflecting traditions for guiding views and creating privacy, and providing a man-made counterpart to the adjacent, semitransparent bamboo ?wall.?

photos © Florian Holzherr
The Tower?s innovative cladding system employs horizontal ...