"Istanbul's Modern Museum: A Collaboration of Renzo Piano Building Workshop and Arup"
Renzo Piano Building Workshop and Arup have completed the new Istanbul Modern Museum, which features 10,500 square meters of usable space across five levels, including large exhibition galleries, multifunctional spaces, dedicated zones for education, offices, and spaces for commercial activity. The circular columns and round mechanical funnels form an architectural landscape at ground level, while a glass fence underneath the main volume of the building provides protected areas for an outdoor sculpture terrace as well as educational spaces for children. The second floor has 3,300 square meters of exhibition space that house permanent and temporary exhibition galleries.