"The Ataturk Cultural Center is still open-ended project" said Murat Tabanlioglu, founder of Tabanlioglu Architects (TA_) in an exclusive interview with World Architecture Community at this year's World Architecture Festival at the Arena Berlin, in Germany. 

Murat Tabanlioglu gave a detailed information about the Ataturk Cultural Center for the first time how the project was developed and how the real problem was addressed with interest in the design process. "The project is still too abstract," said the architect in the third episode of the interview series of World Architecture Community.

World Architecture Community has hosted a series of interviews with prominent architects, including Sir Peter Cook and Will Alsop, during the seminar program of World Architecture Festival 2017 - world-renowned architects were in conversation with Prof. Dr. Abdi Güzer, both an architect and critique. 

Bodrum Loft, Turkey won the Leisure Led Development - Future Projects prize at WAF 2017

Tabanlioglu Architects is part of a long tradition extending to Dr. Hayati Tabanlioglu - one of the most well-known architects in contemporary Turkish architecture. The firm was founded in 1990 by Murat Tabanlıoglu and his father Hayati Tabanlioglu, and Melkan Gürsel joined the firm as partner in 1995.

Tabanlioglu Architects has offices in Istanbul, New York, London, Dubai and Doha. The studio produces a large number of projects comprised of different scales and the firm won various awards including RIBA International Award with Loft Gardens in 2011 and Bodrum Milas International Airport in 2013.

Interior view of Bodrum Loft, Turkey - won the Leisure Led Development - Future Projects prize at WAF 2017

The firm's Beyazıt State Library renovation won WA Awards in the 24th Cycle. Tabanlioglu Architects also won WA Awards with 5 projects in the 22nd Cycle. Tabanlioglu Architects was also awarded with the Leisure Led Development - Future Projects prize for Bodrum Loft at the World Architecture Festival 2017.  

Tabanlioglu Architects is currently working on a new residential tower - called 118 E 59th Street Residences - in New York and a Community and Production Center in Bayburt, Turkey, which aims to empower women's communal production in a rural province of Turkey. 

Recently, Tabanlioglu Architects opened an exhibition - called Stage_0 Travelogue - at the Architekturgalerie München, Germany. Curated by Murat Tabanlioglu, the exhibition closed its doors with the launch of a new book of the firm with a panel discussion by Prof. Suha Ozkan, Founder and President of World Architecture Community, and Rainer Hofmann, Kreisvorsitzender BDA Bayern, alongside Olaf Bartels, Murat Tabanlioglu and Nicola Borgmann, director of the Architekturgalerie München. 

World Architecture Community is media partner for this year's World Architecture Festival. The annual World Architecture Festival (WAF) took place this year between 15-17 November at the Arena Berlin, in Germany. 

All images courtesy of TA_