İstinye Park

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Location	Istanbul, Turkey
Coordinates	41°6'37.58"N 29°1'58.51"E
Opening Date	September 21, 2007
Owner	Orjin Group, Doğuş Group
Developer	Orta Gayrımenkul Yatırım Yönetimi Turizm A.Ş.
Number of Stores	291
Anchor Tenants	Beymen Boyner Vakko Zara
Entertainment	AFM Movie Theater (2600 seats, IMAX 3D screen), Kids' Entertainment Center
Total Retail Floor Area	85,250 sqm
Parking	3.200
Website	http://www.istinyepark.com.tr

Istinye Park is a shopping center in the İstinye quarter of Istanbul, Turkey with 291 stores, 85,250 sqm of retail area, and four levels of underground parking.

The center features both enclosed and open air sections. The open air section has a green central park and offers street side shopping.

The center includes an authentic Turkish food bazaar- a traditional market place, inspired by Turkish architecture and history.

[edit] Design and layout

Istinye Park has a gross area of 242.000 sqm.

There are three distinct sections present in the building:

The Grand Rotunda is a central entertainment space, consisting of a four level arena-like space beneath a scalloped/segmented shell. It is supported by a central exterior mast over 3 panoramic elevators. The 75-meter-diameter hard-shell canopy encloses a 9 m diameter vertically moving stage. The Rotunda also features kinetic water sculptures animated with lights and music.

The Lifestyle Center is an open air town square incorporating a green central park and Fashion District- the glass roofed indoor retail area.

TheBazaar area is distinguished from the rest of the center with its historical Turkish styling- each facade has been inspired from Turkish architecture and history.

The project designer is Development Design Group Inc., based in Baltimore. The design period -from conceptual, schematic, to development- lasted for about a year. Ömerler Mimarlik, based in Istanbul, drafted construction drawings and handled implementation. The construction period went on for 26 months- from the first lay of foundation until the grand opening. From the first sketch to the completion of the project, it took (2004–2007) 3 years in total.