First step for a new face
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Hurriyet Daily News
Oluşturulma Tarihi: Aralık 24, 2008 00:00
ISTANBUL - The metropolitan municipality’s directorate in charge of the preservation of historic surroundings divides the Süleymaniye renovation into five phases to hasten the project. The first phase of the project, consisting of 792 buildings’ restoration in four districts, is completed.
Residential areas in the Fatih, Sehzade, Suleymaniye, Beyazıt and Sultanahmet districts of Istanbul, which are around the biggest historic mosques of the city, are suffering from sore sight of sites as renovations have overtaken the skyline.
But one of the renovation works taking place in Süleymaniye aims to better the look of the district and is speeding up as the year for Istanbul to be the 2010 European Capital of Culture approaches.
"Süleymaniye renovation area," a joint project of the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality and Eminönü Municipality, has its first examples of buildings ready from the first phase. The first phase of the renovation area consists of 792 buildings in four districts, while the whole project covers 1,967 buildings in eight districts to be handled in an expected period of five years reported daily Sabah.
Project with five phases
The directorate of the metropolitan municipality that covers the preservation of historic surroundings divided the area into five phases to quicken the project. Out of the 1,967 buildings in the area, 728 of them are registered and 1,239 of them are unregistered, while the first phase covers 427 registered and 365 unregistered buildings. Out of these 792 buildings of the first phase, 28 of them are considered monumental structures.
The renovation board approved projects for 236 buildings for the first phase as prepared by the directorate. KİPTAŞ, a construction company that owns property in the area, won the auction by Eminönü Municipality for 42 blocks, has approval for projects of 21 buildings, while 69 are waiting for the board’s decision.
YTL 20 million
Cem Eriş, director for the metropolitan municipality’s preservation of historic surroundings affairs, said the projects for the five phases are going to cost YTL 20 million. "The first step of this job is the stage of projects and the metropolitan municipality is handling it," he said, adding that nearly all of the projects are for privately owned registered cultural structures under lawful protection and some of the costs of the first phase, a total of YTL 6 million, are being met by the sources of the metropolitan municipality while the rest are covered by the funds of the Special Provincial Administration.
Eriş said, besides the projects, the construction costs for the buildings are being requested from the Special Provincial Administration and the 2010 agency. The Special Provincial Administration has covered 60 percent of the YTL 11.9 million needed for the 57 civilian buildings from the first phase, according to Eriş.
The remaining costs and needed funds for projects to be completed for 95 buildings, YTL 28 million, were requested from the 2010 agency, Eriş said. "We will quickly hold the auction for the second and the third phases at the beginning of 2009. Our target is ending all project work for Süleymaniye in 2009 and finishing the organization for construction. If the allowance for applications will be provided, all of the restorations will be finished in 2010."
But one of the renovation works taking place in Süleymaniye aims to better the look of the district and is speeding up as the year for Istanbul to be the 2010 European Capital of Culture approaches.
"Süleymaniye renovation area," a joint project of the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality and Eminönü Municipality, has its first examples of buildings ready from the first phase. The first phase of the renovation area consists of 792 buildings in four districts, while the whole project covers 1,967 buildings in eight districts to be handled in an expected period of five years reported daily Sabah.
Project with five phases
The directorate of the metropolitan municipality that covers the preservation of historic surroundings divided the area into five phases to quicken the project. Out of the 1,967 buildings in the area, 728 of them are registered and 1,239 of them are unregistered, while the first phase covers 427 registered and 365 unregistered buildings. Out of these 792 buildings of the first phase, 28 of them are considered monumental structures.
The renovation board approved projects for 236 buildings for the first phase as prepared by the directorate. KİPTAŞ, a construction company that owns property in the area, won the auction by Eminönü Municipality for 42 blocks, has approval for projects of 21 buildings, while 69 are waiting for the board’s decision.
YTL 20 million
Cem Eriş, director for the metropolitan municipality’s preservation of historic surroundings affairs, said the projects for the five phases are going to cost YTL 20 million. "The first step of this job is the stage of projects and the metropolitan municipality is handling it," he said, adding that nearly all of the projects are for privately owned registered cultural structures under lawful protection and some of the costs of the first phase, a total of YTL 6 million, are being met by the sources of the metropolitan municipality while the rest are covered by the funds of the Special Provincial Administration.
Eriş said, besides the projects, the construction costs for the buildings are being requested from the Special Provincial Administration and the 2010 agency. The Special Provincial Administration has covered 60 percent of the YTL 11.9 million needed for the 57 civilian buildings from the first phase, according to Eriş.
The remaining costs and needed funds for projects to be completed for 95 buildings, YTL 28 million, were requested from the 2010 agency, Eriş said. "We will quickly hold the auction for the second and the third phases at the beginning of 2009. Our target is ending all project work for Süleymaniye in 2009 and finishing the organization for construction. If the allowance for applications will be provided, all of the restorations will be finished in 2010."