The Architect · Yusuf · Istanbul
Ortaköy Mosque
The whole design is about the reflection. It sits on the water so the light bounces up into the façade at dusk.
A slim baroque-Ottoman mosque set right on the Bosphorus quay, framed under the great suspension bridge.
— Yusuf, The Architect
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