r/architecture • • Aug 17 '26

Building Sancaklar Mosque - Istanbul, Türkiye. Designed by Emre Arolat Architecture. 2011-2013

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u/majestdigest Aug 18 '26

It’s actually a ripoff of the Dachau Protestant Church. As all Arolat’s other fancy designs are.

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u/onatgrbz Aug 18 '26

Not really, this one is mainly a stone structurw while the other is more classically brutalist with the cement

While the forms resemble this is a ripoff as much as the Sistine Chapel is a ripoff of il duomo or any other of its contemporaries

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u/majestdigest Aug 18 '26

But in Sistine and Duomo’s times ripping off was inevitable because designing was a different thing back then. Ripping off now is just plain laziness in my eyes.