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POSTMODERNIST HOTEL-CASINO COMPLEXES IN NORTHERN CYPRUS
Date
2010
Author
Yücel Besim , Devrim
Kiessel, Marco
Tozan Kiessel, Asu
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Recent developments in tourism strongly affect related architecture in Turkish-Cypriot northern Cyprus. Increased investments are made in hotel-casino complexes since gambling was forbidden in Turkey in 1998, and the investements were directed to Cyprus. With the boom of the construction-sector in the northern part of the divided island which started after the reunion plan of UN-General Secretary Kofi Annan in 2003, the number of hotel-casinos increased. The implementation of concept hotels at Vokolida (Bafra) in the Karpas peninsula, is the answer to the challenges and chances of mass tourism. This historical and stylistic-semiotic study on the developments in hotel architecture in northern Cyprus focuses on hotel-casino complexes which comprise postmodernist buildings, the majority of which has been constructed within the last ten years. Today postmodernist complexes exceed the number of hotel-casinos which have been designed in a modernist attitude, or in “International Style”. Their design rarely refers to traditional Turkish architecture, but mainly to the western classical heritage.
Subject Keywords
Hotels-casino (buildings)
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Postmodernism
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Tourism
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Northern Cyprus
URI
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/50832
http://jfa.arch.metu.edu.tr/archive/0258-5316/2010/cilt27/sayi_1/103-123.pdf
Journal
METU JOURNAL OF THE FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE
DOI
https://doi.org/DOI: 10.4305/METU.JFA.2010.1.6
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Department of Architecture, Article