WaterWay No58_ Archıtectural Documentary Fılm
2025
Waterway No58 has recently been officially selected by The Writer’s Journey & International Istanbul Short Film Festival, celebrating its unique architectural narrative. Following this achievement, the film received an Honorable Mention from the Athens International Monthly Art Film Festival, recognizing its visual storytelling and artistic depth. Most recently, it was also selected in the Best Cinematography category by the Brazil New Visions Film Festival, further highlighting the film’s compelling visual language and craft.
These recognitions mark an exciting journey for the project and its exploration of space, material, and design through a cinematic lens.
You can visit the film’s IMDb page here.
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SHARE Ljubljana 2019 Forum
March 14, 2019
Burak Pekoglu, founder of BINAA, participated as a speaker at the SHARE Ljubljana 2019 Forum held on March 14th at the InterContinental Hotel Ljubljana.
In his lecture titled “Crossways Anatolia,” he presented the impact of infrastructure on urban form in Turkey, focusing on Eskişehir as a regional case study.
The forum brought together architects, engineers, academics, and professionals from creative industries across Central and Eastern Europe, offering a platform to exchange ideas on contemporary issues in architecture and design.
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Mappıng Future Archaeologıes
November, 2017
Workshop Report
Mapping Future Archaeologies is an investigation into the changing social and physical make-up of the Aksaray neighborhood in the heart of Istanbul's historic peninsula. Theoretically engaged and historically informed, this project uses experimental cartographic practice to visually render one of the city's most complex and dynamic areas.
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A+ Awards’ Archıtecture + Metal Award for the S2OSB Headquarters & Conference Hall
May 11, 2017
The Architizer A+Awards is the largest awards program celebrating the year's best architecture and products. There is a total of five thousand entries from around the world including the best product, the best design project, and the best technology award categories.
Burak Pekoglu, founder of BINAA Studio won this year's A+ Awards’ Architecture+Metal Award for the S2OSB Headquarters and Conference Hall in Sakarya, Hendek, Turkey.
The 5th annual Architizer awards gala took place in the High Line Stages, NYC on the 11th of May. 100 finalists of entries honored by an international jury. The finalist projects will also have an opportunity to be published in "A+ Architecture: The Best of Architizer 2017" book by Phaidon in July.
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Conference on Creatıve & Innovatıve Desıgn Process
April 27, 2017_ 17:00
Mardin Artuklu University, Faculty of Architecture
"Burak Pekoglu, the founder of BINAA architecture studio, will give a lecture titled 'Creative & Innovative Design Process' at Mardin Artuklu University on April 27."
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S2OSB Headquarters & Conference Hall
January 31, 2017
Our project; S2OSB has been nominated by Archdaily for "Building of the year 2017"
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Performance Art Meets Sculpture to Celebrate Motherhood ın Jerusalem Bıennale
August, 2015
BINAA sponsors the architectural implication of an art installation project of Alana Ruben Free & David Gerstein, “Presence-Present”, 2015 at the 2nd Jerusalem Biennale this autumn.
A collaboration between world-renowned Israeli painter and sculptor David Gerstein and former North American, now Israel-based, theatre artist Alana Ruben Free, Presence=Present is a unique meeting of performance, sculpture and architecture. Performance Art Meets Sculpture to Celebrate Motherhood in Jerusalem Biennale “Whenever someone becomes fully present for him/herself or another person transformation happens. Two minutes of loving attention on others and ourselves is a powerful daily act. Presence=Present is the culmination of performance work that I began in 2003, as well as scholarship exploring themes of motherhood and art. After being diagnosed with post-partum depression and atypical anorexia after my first child, I became proudly preoccupied with the question of how one comes to honestly love and nurture one’s self and others. All of my work builds upon over a decade of intense study of Jewish classical texts. I am indebted to David Gerstein and Burak Pekoglu for their artistic integrity and belief in me throughout this powerful collaboration between sculpture, architecture, and theatre. I will share this participatory process 67 times- the gamatria of Bina-each time affirming love, trust, respect and appreciation as the basis of healthy relationships.”
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Conversatıons on Archıtecture Yasemın Tarhan
May 31, 2015
Yasemin Tarhan visits our studio tomorrow, 31/05/2015, evening at 18:00, to share her experience and recent works. She is graduated from Yale University School of Architecture, and currently practices at Deborah Berke Partners in New York, NY. We hope you have a chance to join us and have a conversation with her.
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Captured by the Cıty Perspectıves ın Urban Culture Studıes by Blagovesta M. Momchedjıkova
April, 2015
On the best seller's list of Cambridge Scholars Publishing for April 2015!
Captured by the City: New Perspectives in Urban Culture Studies is a collection of eighteen essays on urban places, people, and phenomena. In it, cities in North America, Europe, and Asia offer themselves as dynamic encounters to those who study them and to those who live in them on a daily basis. Different disciplines – sociology, anthropology, performance studies, architectural history, linguistics, media studies, and documentary poetics, to name just a few – intersect here to help shape a unique field of inquiry – that of Urban Culture Studies. This multi-perspectival approach grants us a more wholesome understanding of how we inscribe cities and how cities inscribe us in return: as we plan, inhabit, remember them – in reality or in dreams.
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Conversatıon About Cıtıes & Change
November 10, 2013
Visiting Faculty Program at New York University
Join visiting scholar and architect Burak Pekoglu and artist Wade Kavanaugh for a lively discussion on the latest tendencies in city development. Burak and Wade will focus their eye on Turkey and the United States, drawing analogies between two of Turkey’s major cities (Bursa and Istanbul) and New York City. They will share their views on the creative process, sustainability, and documentation.
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Fluıd New York by May Joseph (Guest Lecturer)
July 2, 2013
Duke University Press
How is water changing the way we imagine coastal cities? This is the central question that May Joseph asks in Fluid New York. Joseph offers a historical reading of the transformation of New York City’s waterfront over the last two decades. In Fluid New York Joseph opens up the idea that medieval coastal cities are connected by both urban planning histories and now with a new reality of climate change. Using maps, photographs and cartographic imagining, Joseph opens up the challenges facing global cities like New York and Istanbul, through the case study of New York City’s hurricane sandy and its catastrophic impact on New York’s urban infrastructure.
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Buıldıngs Made Wıth Love & Passıon Wıll Stand Out
January 2, 2013
Café Babel Interview by Cansu Ekmekcioglu
"Cities are extensions of our bodies that are born, live, grow, multiply, and die. Each city has its own soul that connects to ours. Some we love, some not. Our senses direct us to distinguish tastes that we remember in each city, by physically being there. Architecture is an integral part of this experience. An extraordinary project has the motive to inspire us in its everyday occupation. Buildings made with love and passion will always stand out and reach our hearts in cities that we associate ourselves with through the influence of architecture. Their endurance in time will form a dialogue with the context in which transformation takes place towards superior means."
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Connect – Collaborate – Create
December 12, 2012
Seminar & Workshop with Edwin Chan at Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul
The seminar, Connect - Collaborate - Create was offered in two sessions. The first session dealt with the architecture of museums and the relevance of museum programming in today's culture. The second session focused on the design process and discussions on the values of physical model making as well as digital technology and their uses in professional practice today.
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Crossways Anatolıa
2011
Exhibition @ Eskisehir Chamber of Commerce (ECC)
The exhibition and booklaunch focus on the Crossways Anatolia Project, that concentrates on the infrastructure’s impact in the Hinterland of Turkey by taking the city of Eskisehir as a regional model in between the two polar cities, Istanbul and Ankara.
In this context, Eurasian railroad development will become a new potential to strategically approach, not just Eskisehir, but all the Anatolian cities that fall in the line of this paradigm of future physical network.
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Los Angeles Workshop_EC3 Documentary
The focus of this workshop is to come up with a new Master Plan of Sirkeci as a part of the project in this historical center of Istanbul, invited by the Istanbul Chamber of Commerce (ICC).
Edwin Chan and Burak Pekoglu come together to collaborate in this workshop, that has become a part of a documentary which can be displayed via the link below.
Edwin Chan and Burak Pekoglu come together to collaborate in this workshop, that has become a part of a documentary which can be displayed via the link below.
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Cultural Project & The Cıty; Istanbul
Panel Discussion at Koc University, Istanbul
In the Panel organized by Eda Daloglu, History Teacher at Koc University; Thomas Mayer, Edwin Chan and Burak Pekoglu met with Koc University students. Edwin Chan, a renowned architect from Los Angeles; Thomas Mayer, distinguished photographer; and Burak Pekoglu, an architect that is familiar with the architectural scene of Istanbul, shared their experiences, observations and critique on potentials of cultural projects in Istanbul.
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Creatıve Process Unveıled
Workshop at New York University
NYU Professor Blagovesta Momchedjikova organized a workshop at her creative writing class with architect Burak Pekoglu. Writing workshop considered re_mapping the creative process by thinking backwards from the end product to the start.
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