Historic Elevator HELN YKSEL 20110405079 The elevator made

Historic Elevator HELİN YÜKSEL 20110405079

The elevator made constructed by Nesim Levi, a businessman in İzmir, has connected two streets for over a century in spite of the steep staircase of 155 stairs. Asansör (the Elevator), which is one of the most important historic focal points of İzmir, is a building stone in the urban identity and gives its name to the neighbourhood in which it is located.

There are linear advancing masses at the top and bottom to balance the vertical brick block with its 56 - meter high steel carrier. There is a huge amount of open space in front of the building located at the end of the Asansör.

Surprising views may pass in front of your eyes in the atmosphere you are in the elevator cabinet, either on your own or with others. You will open up to the outside world from the tower’s small windows when in fact a remarkable view of the gulf and the amazing panoramic view of the city await visitors at the top, its almost like sitting down at a banquet table having just tasted an exquisite dish.

Having a unique view of İzmir and being the most beautiful place to watch the sunset Asansör is a flash focal point in the night and entertainment life of İzmir. In those days when it was built, it not only did just function of vertical connection but also had social uses to add value to its main job description. Today it still maintains the same attribute and embodies locations being a restaurant, a pub, a cafeteria, a conference hall as well as serving the purpose of a vertical bridge.

Nowadays skyscrapers, generally functioning as hotels, are the centre of modern vertical however, even though they can compete with historical towers in size, they will never possess the endurance and historical sustainability that the historical focuses do. Within this context the Asansör Tower will continue to be one of the most important icons of the city as it will always carry the past into the future.

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