Beymen Tersane, Istanbul, Turkey luxury retailer

Beymen Tersane in Istanbul, Turkey

9 June 2025

Architecture: OMA

Location: Istanbul, Western Turkey

Photos: Marco Cappelletti

Following decades of abandonment, Tersane-i Âmire, Istanbul’s former Ottoman Imperial Arsenal and the center of the Empire’s naval production for over four centuries, is being redeveloped into a mixed-use waterfront district comprising hotels, cultural facilities, retail, and public spaces.

As part of the masterplan for the site’s transformation, OMA designed Beymen Tersane, a department store for Turkish luxury retailer the Beymen Group.

The project introduces a series of freestanding structures within the existing shipyard halls, organizing the store as a sequence of galleries with distinct geometries and materialities.

Together, the galleries form a new layer within the former shipyard, displaying not only products but also contemporary art installations while allowing the original structure to remain visible.

Traversed both along and across, the galleries form a continuous horizontal retail space that eliminates the hierarchy typically created by distributing departments across multiple floors.

Traversed both along and across, they create a continuous horizontal retail space that eliminates the hierarchy typically produced by distributing departments across multiple floors.

Together with a new public promenade along the Golden Horn, the project establishes a new connection between the city and the water in a context where much of the waterfront remains inaccessible

Beymen Tersane in Istanbul, Turkey – Building Information

Architecture: OMA – https://www.oma.com/

Location: Istanbul, Turkey
Client: The Beymen Group
Status: Completed
Year: 2026
Program: Retail
Area: 12,000 sqm
Partners: Ellen van Loon, Iyad Alsaka
Team: Project Architect: Anita Ernődi. MacAulay Brown, Dagna Dembiecka, Catalina Dumitru, Aleksandar Joksimovic, Edyta Milczarek, Saskia Simon, Koen Stockbroekx, Michele Zambetti