desirePlate 488 · Istanbul, Turkey

Topkapi Palace

A palace of courtyards that ruled three continents from a garden.

1460s–19th c. · Ottoman imperial architects · Europe

The chamber score

Pesrev in Maqam Hicaz

Tanburi Cemil Bey · late Ottoman

A palace of silence and gold. The tanbur walks the corridors first.

An original chamber arrangement in the climate of the work. The recording is not a copy. It is the room answering.

Why it is here

The Ottoman imperial residence, UNESCO, a city of kiosks above the Golden Horn.

Commission the full chamber

This monument is in the atlas. The rebuild can be written for you.

Ask the studio to reconstruct Topkapi Palace through desire — or shift it into another corridor.

Open a commission

Shift the feeling

What if Topkapi Palace was rebuilt as something else?

Ask the architect

One question. Stay in the room.