Tabanlioglu’s Loft Gardens wins Riba award
01 November 2011
THE Loft Gardens, a midrise transparent residential block project in Turkey, was one of the 13 projects honoured with the prestigious Riba International Award for architectural excellence by the Royal Institute of British Architects (Riba).
The 21-storey building in Istanbul, designed as a ‘soft loft’ concept by Tabanlioglu Architects features loft apartments of various sizes. It “takes the Miesian tower model and subtly humanises it by manipulating its pure shape into a modulating inhabited form. High-rise garden patios are then inserted into the façade as a counterpoint to the protruding bay windows and deepen the play of solid and void within the façade. Plan and section are organised to create a range of apartment types of great spatial variety, some horizontal based around patios, others vertical around double-height spaces”, the award citation said.
“Internally, the designers display an unabashed passion for the aesthetic of the industrial loft with their exposed services and structure and with their use of concrete, steel and timber. The Loft Gardens are an extreme demonstration of elegance and restraint within a subtly modified typology,” it said.
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