page_title: Mimar Kemaleddin
section_title: Completion of Ankara Palas, a project started by Vedat Tek (1927)
hierarchical_section_title: Mimar Kemaleddin / Notable works / Completion of Ankara Palas, a project started by Vedat Tek (1927)
caption_attribution_description: Türkçe: Ankara Palas. Mimar Kemaleddin’in eseridir. 1927 yılında tamamlanmıştır.
context_page_description: Ahmet Kemalettin or Kemaleddin, widely known as Mimar Kemalettin and Kemalettin Bey, was a renowned Turkish architect of the very late period of the Ottoman architecture and the early years of the newly established Republic. He was among the pioneers of the first national architectural movement.
  His lifetime saw intense and important changes for Turkish history and culture.
context_section_description: This was Kemalettin Bey's first design project after arriving in Ankara. The hotel was designed in 1924 by Architect Vedad Bey, but when he left the project the hotel was built according to Kemalettin Bey's new design and opened for business in the autumn of 1927.
  The hotel was the setting for Ankara's important political and social meetings, particularly during the early years of the Republic, and was a venue for welcoming all the important guests of the state.
  The large balcony with pointed arches on the axially planned rectangular mass' axis, the raised mass and its domed entrance emphasize its orientalist appearance and monumental aspect. There is a magnificent ballroom receiving daylight from above.
  The limitation of traditional decoration to balcony parapets and console stones balances the Orientalist emphasis.
caption: Ankara Palas Hotel demonstrates characteristics of the First Turkish national architectural movement.
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