Oct 26, 2012

Tabanlıoğlu Architects, a leading Turkish architecture firm, has won an award at the prestigious World Architecture Festival (WAF) contest in Singapore for its work on Bodrum Airport. The architectural group, which entered six projects at the Singapore event, won in the category for completed transport-related buildings. Bodrum Airport is 40 kilometers from...

Oct 8, 2012

Officials in the southwestern district of Bodrum have opened a new, multimillion-dollar cultural center featuring an art gallery, two conference halls and a classroom. “The cultural center was designed by the [Muğla Sıtkı Koçman] University and the [Turkish Physics] Foundation to serve scientific, cultural and social events such as national and...

Oct 8, 2012

Some artifacts from Bodrum’s famous Mausoleum of Halicarnassus are on display at the British Museum, and work continues to get the art pieces returned to Turkey. Two of the seven wonders of the ancient world were located in Anatolia; one of which was the temple of Artemis at Ephesus, and the other the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus in Bodrum, in the Aegean...