His vision for a “New Turkey” is reflected in his transformation of the country’s biggest city
Save time by listening to our audio articles as you multitaskThey heaved a sigh of relief when the new centre , costing $200m, opened last year. From the outside the building seems less a homage to its predecessor than an oversize replica . What sets it apart is a 2,000-seat opera hall housed inside an enormous globe in the atrium; its outer shell, covered with thousands of crimson ceramic tiles, glows like a setting sun over Taksim.
Mr Erdogan considers himself the founder of a “New Turkey”, a more confident, more independent and more religious incarnation of the country he was elected to govern two decades ago. New Turkey means restoring the country to the position of greatness he believes it was destined to occupy. Mr Erdogan has used architecture to hammer the point home.
Down the hill from Taksim, a $1.7bn revitalisation project, dubbed Galataport, has transformed the city’s neglected port district into a swanky shopping centre and cruise terminal. One of the victims of the development is the Istanbul Modern, the city’s main contemporary-art museum. The old home of the Modern, a repurposed warehouse by the Bosporus, has been demolished.
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