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After Three Decades, Turkey’s Presidential Symphony Orchestra Concert Hall Finally Opens
The complex has recently been completed after Ankara-based architecture firm Uygur Mimarlık was selected to design the government-funded project in 1992.
Courtesy Ministry of Culture and Tourism
If anything defines Ankara’s Presidential Symphony Orchestra, it is its arduous construction timeline. The building of the Turkish capital’s concert hall has spanned over three decades and has been through five presidents, ten prime ministers, and twenty ministers of culture. It was back in 1992 when the local architecture firm Uygur Mimarlık won the national open call to design the nation’s only presidential music hall. “I still remember hand-cutting pieces for the model and drawing the sketches with a pair of compasses,” the firm’s cofounder Semra Uygur tells