"Design & Release": Turkish Architect's Barcelona Masterpiece Gets "Turkified" in Istanbul by AI

türkçe links to original Turkish article

(onedio.com website, 20 August 2026)

           Barcelona architectural elegance...

After studying at the Pratt Institute in New York, Alihan Dumankaya 

gained years of experience at the legendary architect Ricardo Bofill's 

studio (Taller de Arquitectura) in Barcelona, ​​and then founded his own 

studio, Estudio AD. In his designs, he combines local identity with 

universal aesthetic principles.

This project, which has garnered international acclaim and generated 

widespread interest in architectural circles, proves that it's possible to 

move beyond "lifeless concrete houses" in contemporary residential 

architecture and create warm, human-scale alternatives that respect 

the cultural fabric. The concept he designed for an apartment building 

in Barcelona went viral precisely because of these characteristics.

However (!) Turkish "architects" supplied an Istanbul rendering, 

thanks to AI:

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Translated from Turkish

If Alihan Bey had built the same building in Istanbul,

it would look like this.