You are implementing your architectural ideas across a very wide spectrum and in extremely diverse geographies. In which specific areas do you work?
I believe that design is a whole. In other words, there is no difference between designing a tea glass and designing a 1500-bed hospital. People expect architectural offices in Turkey to be able to do everything. Whatever comes up, we try to execute it in the best way possible. Hotels, medical and industrial complexes, renovations, restoration projects, very large homes, villas—these are some of our projects.
Do you have projects abroad?
Yes. For a while we were engaged in projects in Russia. In fact, we learned later that an office building we had started to build in Tumanskiy was the Siberian headquarters of the KGB! We couldn’t even take a photograph of it of course. Right now we are involved in a project to renovate the old ‘entrepot royal’ for tobacco in Brussels. It’s a giant of a building, 56 thousand square meters, in which trains were once loaded and unloaded. I’m proud to say that this is the largest renovation project under way in Europe at the moment.