The visual animation of the exterior certainly helps it.

Juxtaposition of buildings and surroundings has been modernism's raison d'etre for decades. Tell us something we don't know, Mr. "Architect".

Interesting...but built in a nowhere land!

This is so dystopian :o.

Superstudio on the outside, Sanaa on the inside.

Did anyone else think this building was multi-storied, perhaps even ten, before reading that it is just one level? Making sure the exterior has "scale" used to be important.

From the lead image with a shadowy figure approaching the entry to the stairs up to the roof from the courtyard, I always read this as a one or two-story building.

The solar farm reaching the horizon is a blink into our future, yet a strangely dystopian landscape. To confront this with a building protecting an oasis-like courtyard shielding us from this future seems conceptually wrong, or like a capitulation to what it takes to live on in the future. Or they didn’t care about these implications and just wanted to make a "cool building". Nevertheless, it seems like a lost opportunity to make a far-reaching statement on the state of our existence. Let’s just roll with a "cool building".

Not sure I buy some of the architectural language but what I do buy is that this is a substantive investment. Here in the US, the cutthroat budget would end up leaving operations with an unimaginative metal shed with minimal openings and amenities. Another reminder of how the empire doesn't collapse, it slowly disintegrates.

The Kalyon Group is mired in charges of state corruption and cronyism from the Turkish government. One might suggest that such an unnecessary investment in the building –however meritorious its architecture – smacks of pocket-lining.

Very helpful color to add to this story. Thanks!

LOVE THE BUILDING! Some 35 years ago I was working on my thesis, in which I proposed a cluster of high rises (both residential and commercial) be mirrored and staggered in a way that everyone had a view. Views might after a few reflections be distorted but an improvement over looking at a grid of windows.

Inspiration was the Time Life building in Chicago. Driving into the city off the Dan Ryan/Kennedy, no matter the weather it always looked like a shining, sparkling jewel. Like the emerald city. No long can you see it that way due to newer buildings blocking that view.

Agree, absolutely brilliant facade design – wish I had thought of it.