Saturday, April 11, 2009

Small intervention for the street sign on St. Antoine Church, Taksim

The street sign of Istiklal Caddesi stands overwhelmingly imposing with its shiny red backgorund over the sign depicting the name of this St. Antoine Church in Taksim. Whether this has got anything to do with ideology or not is another question but in the meanwhile, can we not think of a simple solution to this urban problem?

Instead of occupying one of the 2 columns at the gate of this beautiful and famous Catholic church in Taksim area, and overwhelming the placard depicting the name of the church....


Can we not think of putting that street sign (in a slightly smaller size) to the other column nearby which is vacant?



And in doing so, come from this:


  1. to this:

5 comments:

Lara FRESKO said...

nedir bu simetri aşkı?

Ömerillo said...

simetri degil aslinda problem. kirmizi plaka golgeliyor kilisenin tabelasini. katilmiyor musun?

Lara FRESKO said...

bilmem sanki kilisenin tabelasının daha mütevazı olması önemli şeyler sembolize ediyormuş ve kendi içinde manalıymış gibi geldiğinden heralde.. olduğu gibi seviyorum o tabelaları.

Ömerillo said...

"ben bu zihniyetle muhattap bile olmam, isime bakarim" tarzi mi?

wasowsky said...

gibi...