Özge Saka Mimarlık is an Ä°stanbul based architectural practice founded in 2016, a follow-up of Koridor Mimarlık. The firm specializes in urban planning, architecture, and interior design projects together with providing assistance for planning applications and site monitoring and so far has been involved in various stages of many type of projects such as masterplan, residential, office, hospitality and retail buildings.
Özge studied architecture at Istanbul Technical University and is a highly experienced design architect with over 20 years on both Turkish and international projects. Before establishing Özge Saka Mimarlık, she had worked as Director and Design Leader at Aukett Swanke Ä°stanbul and was a long standing member and associate of the firm for 12 years. Ozge is well respected for her leadership of a number of large scale residential, masterplanning, office and hotel projects, principally located in Istanbul and Europe. She provides a comprehensive understanding of the local zoning and regulation constraints and how these can be interpreted to optimise the development potential of a site. Her experience covers masterplanning and conceptual design stages of various projects and competitions to direction of construction documentation, and she has led the design of a number of projects to completion on site.
ÖZGE SAKA
Founder / Architect
INTERNATIONAL COLLOBORATORS
Steve is an architect with over thirty years of experience in Europe and Asia as a design director for Farrells, Gensler and Aukett Swanke. He spent 7 years in Hong Kong where he established and co-led Farrells’ first Asian office. He specialises in the design of large scale, mixed-use schemes including the master planning of the one million square metres development at the Kowloon Airport Express Station in Hong Kong. He is recognised for his analytical approach favouring extensive site, context and historic analysis. Believing in a more agile approach to architectural practice, Steve now runs his own design consultancy, Steve Brown Architecture, and collaborates with an international group of like minded professionals building an appropriate team for each project. In line with this philosophy Steve recently collaborated with the architectural practice Özge Saka Mimarlik, based in Istanbul, to win an international design competition, River Spas Tower, a major residential project in Moscow.
TconcepT BV, based in The Netherlands, is an architectural design office, specialized in concept design. TconcepT is founded in 2014 by former founders and directors of T+T Design and Multi Development. They all worked until 2013 on an exclusive basis for pan-European retail developer Multi Development on dozens of projects. Since 2014 the expertise of concept development of TconcepT can be shared with the market. Traditional project development, which is mainly been based on economic aspects, should also incorporate urban, architectural, esthetical and local aspects. The aim is to create places to stay, to create a perfect balance between Development and Design, resulting in the most feasible concept. This formula of ‘Development by Design’ has proven to be highly successful in the international development of urban projects, intercity projects, office buildings and numerous shopping centers, which have been frequently awarded.
