What do they say?  When one closes another one opens - I mention this at the start of my new blog design - hurray!  I've said goodbye to wordpress and hello to Wlad Marhulets, who has created my own site from scratch - he is also a ridiculously amazing composer - check him out here.  Also worth mentioning is how Turks recycle materials - such as the doors that they've collected from this building and used it to barricade the construction site for a newer, surely bigger building.  Notice the incline - the hills of Istanbul are steep!  Especially the ones right between Teşvikiye and Beşiktaş on the European side.