Italian architecture studio Renzo Piano Building Workshop has completed the landmark Istanbul Modern museum, which is its first project in Turkey. Over 10,000 square metres in size, Istanbul Modern is an art museum on Karaköy waterfront, a historic area in Istanbul where the Bosphorus and Golden Horn waterways meet. It has a top-heavy form made up of three stacked rectilinear volumes, designed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop to evoke the shape of a ship. Aluminium panels with an almost iridescent quality envelop the building and subtly reflect the colours of the changing sky and light. Renzo ..read more

The latest edition of our weekly Dezeen Agenda newsletter features shelters designed by architect Shigeru Ban for victims of the Turkey-Syria earthquake. Subscribe to Dezeen Agenda now. Pritzker Architecture Prize-winning architect Ban has supplied victims of the Turkey-Syria earthquake with modular shelters made from cardboard tubes. The Paper Partition System functions as a structure that holds up textile partitions and takes three people just five minutes to build. David Chipperfield did not deserve to win the Pritzker Architecture Prize last week, writes Aaron Betsky. This week's newslett ..read more

Pritzker Architecture Prize-winning architect Shigeru Ban has provided his Paper Partition System, made from cardboard tubes and fabric, to evacuation centres housing victims of the Turkey-Syria earthquake. The Paper Partition System (PPS) is constructed using cardboard tubes, which function as a structure that holds up textile partitions. Shigeru Ban has provided earthquake refugees with modular shelters Ban provided the shelters, which take three people just five minutes to build, to evacuation centres "in response to the Turkey-Syria earthquake". The architect is working with his ..read more

Improvements to both architectural education and practice must form part of the recovery plan to prevent history from repeating itself, argue Turkish architects following last month's deadly earthquakes. Architects in Turkey believe that the scale of destruction caused by the earthquakes on 6 February was exacerbated by poor construction in the country caused, in part, by a disregard for legislation. "Buildings built with competent architecture, competent engineering, competent construction and competent control mechanisms do not collapse even if they are directly on the fault line," said Alt ..read more

Authorities in Turkey have issued arrest warrants to more than 100 people with ties to buildings destroyed by the devastating Turkey-Syria earthquake last week. Turkey's vice-president Fuat Oktay said 131 contractors, architects and engineers linked to collapsed buildings have been identified following the tragic quakes, which struck parts of Turkey and Syria on 6 February. At least 12 of those suspects have already been taken into custody, the Guardian reported. The arrest warrants come as the death toll reaches more than 31,000 people in southern Turkey, and over 5,700 in north-west Syria ..read more

Architects should play a major role in the recovery after disasters like the recent earthquake in Turkey and Syria, but egotistical posturing will not help anyone, writes Cameron Sinclair. Countless lives have been lost with many more injured and suffering from the tragic disaster that has struck Turkey and northern Syria. While most people see the wrath borne by tectonic rupture, architects, engineers and construction professionals know that earthquakes don't kill people, bad buildings do. Currently, somewhere between 7,000 and 15,000 structures have been damaged or destroyed, many of which ..read more

The latest edition of our Dezeen Agenda newsletter features the 1915 Çanakkale Bridge in Turkey, which has become the world's longest suspension bridge. With a span of 2,023 metres, the bridge has reached completion and is now open to traffic over the Dardanelles waterway, connecting Turkey's European and Asian shores. Created by consulting group COWI for contractor DLSY, the structure takes the title of the world's longest suspension bridge from the Akashi Kaikyo Bridge in Japan, which has a 1,992-metre-long span. The American Institute of Architects' best homes for 2022 feature in today's A ..read more

The 1915 Çanakkale Bridge has reached completion in Turkey with a span of 2,023 metres, becoming the longest suspension bridge in the world. Open to traffic over the Dardanelles waterway, the massive structure was created by consulting group COWI for contractor DLSY to connect Turkey's European and Asian shores. The world's longest suspension bridge has opened in Turkey The bridge, named after the year of an important Ottoman naval victory against the British and the French during world war one, takes the title of the world's longest suspension bridge from the Akashi Kaikyo Bridge in Japan, w ..read more

Dutch studios IND [Inter.National.Design] and Powerhouse Company have completed the Çanakkale Antenna Tower, a broadcasting and observation tower made from Corten steel to contrast a surrounding forest. IND [Inter.National.Design] and Powerhouse Company designed the looping building, which is located in Çanakkale, Turkey, to form a continuation of an existing forest path. As well as a multimedia and telecom broadcast antenna, it also houses exhibition spaces, recreational facilities and an observation deck. The colour of the broadcasting tower contrasts against the forest The 3,000-squar ..read more

Emre Arolat Architecture has completed a hotel in Antioch, Turkey, featuring prefabricated rooms that are suspended from an enormous steel frame above an important archaeological site. The project, which is shortlisted in the hospitality building category of Dezeen Awards 2021, began in 2009 when the developer of the 34,000-square-metre site commenced work on the foundations for a planned luxury hotel. Emre Arolat Architecture has built a hotel above an archaeological site in Turkey During the excavations a significant archaeological find was unearthed, including artefacts belonging to 13 dif ..read more