{"id":50903,"date":"2012-02-09T13:56:09","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T11:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=50903"},"modified":"2014-01-06T23:20:03","modified_gmt":"2014-01-06T21:20:03","slug":"haydarpasa-railway-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2012\/02\/09\/haydarpasa-railway-station\/","title":{"rendered":"HAYDARPA\u015eA RAILWAY STATION"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For over a century, the historic Haydarpa\u015fa Railway Station has stood as an iconic image on Istanbul\u2019s skyline and as the symbolic gateway to the city. Built by the German-owned Anatolian-Baghdad Railway and designed by architects Otto Ritter and Helmuth Conu, the station was a terminus of the Istanbul-Medina-Damascus railway line and later for routes to Anatolia. Heavily damaged during World War I but rebuilt in its present configuration, Haydarpa\u015fa witnessed the country\u2019s transformation from the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic. Generations share a nostalgic attachment to the building and all it represents.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-50905\" title=\"TUR-Haydar-3\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/TUR-Haydar-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"188\" \/>New transportation avenues will render the station obsolete, and there are plans to redevelop the building, which was recently damaged by fire, along with a large tract of adjacent rail yard. Improvements in transportation planning and infrastructure in many urban areas increasingly challenge the capacities and functionality of traditional stations and similar, large-scale historic structures. Their redevelopment presents important opportunities for protecting cultural resources while improving quality of life. There is strong community support for an adaptive reuse of Haydarpa\u015fa Railway Station that will preserve public access and open space, as well as balance economic, environmental, and social concerns. Its redevelopment requires public engagement and transparency, and could serve as an important model for reinventing cultural heritage in the context of changing cities.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE<\/p>\n<p>In January 2012, Haydarpa\u015fa Railway Station closed to allow for the construction of a high-speed rail line between Istanbul and Ankara. Planning for transportation in the greater region and for development of the area around the station is in formative stages, and the future use of the station has yet to be determined.<\/p>\n<p>February 2012<\/p>\n<p>via HAYDARPA\u015eA RAILWAY STATION | World Monuments Fund.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For over a century, the historic Haydarpa\u015fa Railway Station has stood as an iconic image on Istanbul\u2019s skyline and as the symbolic gateway to the city. Built by the German-owned Anatolian-Baghdad Railway and designed by architects Otto Ritter and Helmuth Conu, the station was a terminus of the Istanbul-Medina-Damascus railway line and later for routes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":50905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2939],"tags":[4582],"class_list":["post-50903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cultureart","tag-haydarpasa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}