Rising 369 metres from the summit of Kucuk Camlica Hill on the Asian side of Istanbul, the Camlica Tower is the tallest structure in Turkey and serves as the city's main television and radio broadcasting mast, a role it took over from a cluster of unsightly transmitter towers that once crowded the hilltop. Designed through an international competition by the architect Melike Altinisik, the slender, tapering form was inaugurated in May 2021 after years of construction, and it has quickly become a.....

Part of the large Emaar Square Mall complex on the Asian side of Istanbul, the Emaar Aquarium and Underwater Zoo offers a journey through the world's waters spread over two floors in the Uskudar district. The displays lead visitors past themed habitats stocked with stingrays, piranhas, the vivid colours of reef fish and the stranger inhabitants of tropical rivers and rainforests, building toward the larger tanks where sharks and other big species circle. The aquarium presents itself not only as .....

High above the Emaar Square Mall in Uskudar, the Emaar SkyView observation deck offers a panorama of Istanbul from around three hundred metres, taking in both the Asian and European sides of the city and the blue expanse of the Sea of Marmara where the two continents meet. Set within the tower of the Address Hotel that rises above the shopping complex, the deck combines open-air and enclosed viewing areas so that visitors can take in the city in any weather, with the towers of the financial dist.....

Set within the Nakkastepe Millet Bahcesi, a public garden on the Asian shore in the Uskudar district, the Istanbul zipline lets visitors fly out over a hillside with one of the finest views in the city as their backdrop. The park occupies some ninety thousand square metres of greenery high above the Bosphorus, laid out with picnic grounds, walking and running paths, a tennis court, ponds, children's play areas and an adventure ropes course, and the zipline is its biggest thrill. The steel cable.....