Dolmabahçe Clock Tower
29 Kasım 2024

Dolmabahçe Clock Tower

Dolmabahçe Clock Tower was built by the palace architect Sarkis Balyan in Neobaroque and Empire style. The tower has four floors on a 12x12 meter platform with a fountain pool at each corner and gradually narrows. The tower sits on a square plan of 8.5 x 8.5 meters with chamfered corners. All facades of the tower are identical. Only one of the openings on the ground floor was used as a door.

Dolmabahçe Sarayı

There are four columns in total on each facade, some of which are chamfered, with composite capitals on both sides of the openings. On the first floor, which is separated by a flood molding, there are vases and various floral decorations at the level of the lower floor columns. This floor is more heavily decorated, with semicircular jambs placed on columns, and two columns on each side of the windows. Garlands are placed on the window. II. Abdulhamid coats of arms are located on sea and land sides. On the upper floor, moldings were used instead of free columns, and architraves carried on consoles were placed over the rectangular windows. On the top floor, there is a railing surrounding this floor. On each facade, there is a small window under the clock dials with a curtain motif. This floor is terminated with eaves molding, and with the "c" curved cut pediments at the top, a transition to the crown with a wind vane is provided.

Dolmabahçe Saat Kulesi


Source Türkiye Culture Portal History of Istanbul