Bebek on the Bosphorus. Rebuilt to the metre.
Evening over Bebek Bay. To the north, the walls of Rumeli Hisarı; across the water, Kandilli on the Asian shore.
This is not a picture of Istanbul. It is Bebek, built on the real map: every street where OpenStreetMap draws it, every slope from the Copernicus survey, every café under its own name, the Bosphorus at its feet. Walk the shore, buy a lot on the hill, build on it.
Mimar Kemaleddin built it in 1913, in the First National style, where a mosque had stood since 1726. A square hall of cut limestone, a dome on four half-domes, and the ferry pier just in front.
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Bebek Camii · Cevdet Paşa Caddesi
A work of the First National movement by Mimar Kemaleddin: a square hall of cut limestone, a dome carried on four half-domes, a portico and a single minaret, on the bay behind the pier.
Mısır Konsolosluğu · Bebek
An Art Nouveau mansion on the water, built around 1900 for Emine Hanım, mother of Abbas Hilmi, the last Khedive of Egypt, and often attributed to Raimondo D’Aronco. Today it is Egypt’s consulate.
Bebek İskelesi
The ferry pier in front of the mosque: a timber pavilion with six-light windows and deep eaves on a deck over the water. Ferries leave here for Emirgan and Eminönü.
Vapur
The classic city ferry of the Bosphorus: two rows of windows, open decks aft, a yellow funnel with a black cap. In our world it lies alongside at Bebek, among 159 vessels on the strait.
31 km of strait. 700 m at its narrowest. 76 shops. One bay.
Cevdet Paşa Caddesi follows the water from Rumeli Hisarı to Arnavutköy: the old quay, Bebek Parkı, the plane trees and the lamps, the boats at their moorings.
Every view on this page is a frame of the world itself, rendered in real time.
Shop by shop, as OpenStreetMap lists Bebek and Arnavutköy today.
At dusk the terraces fill and the windows light up along the bay. Every name above the door is the one OpenStreetMap gives it.
The shopping hall of the Beşiktaş district: boutiques on every side of a plaza, with fountains and café terraces, a step from the stadium.
Furnished to the last shelf: the oak blocks, the lit walls, the pieces on display.
Where the real stadium stands, by the Bosphorus at Dolmabahçe. Beşiktaş opened it in 2016. In META PULS, a seat for every ticket.
The full house, the match on the pitch: every seat can be sat in, every ticket takes you to yours.
Go to the arena →On the roof of the HOF, a cinema and a concert hall: 144 leather recliners before the screen, 540 velvet seats before the band shell. A seat for every ticket, the film on the screen, the show on the LED wall.
The concert hall on the roof: the curved rows, the stage, the light.
Mehmed II raised it in 1452, in about four months, where the strait runs narrowest. Its walls and towers climb the hill at the north edge of our world.
Then the lamps along the quay, the floodlit fortress and the two bridges strung with light. The same shore, open all night.
Every figure comes from the world’s own data: what is drawn, where it stands.
Around the main streets, the city is open land on the real cadastre. Buy a lot, place Villa Linden or the Kontor Hof on it, and walk through every room in the browser.
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