Yenikapi Transfer Point and Archaeo-Park

Project Architect, Eisenman Architects. Phase 3, Design Development of 750,000 sq. ft. archaeological museum and retail/office buildings, March 2014; Phases 1 and 2, master plan and urban design for 1.2 million sq. ft. on the Historic Peninsula, December 2013; International Competition, First Prize, April 2012.

The project introduces a new organizational force (the four-square) into the city that both weaves together the incongruent features of the existing site into a series of different urban matrixes and generates an energy that fl ows out from the site and thus re-enlivens the major elements of the existing palimpsest of the city as a whole– its histories, archaeologies, organizational and stylistic diversities.

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