The building was first designed by Architect Vedat Tek to be part of the Sihhiye Vekáleti building, however, handed over to Vakiflar Idaresi, Architect A. Kemalettin Bey's new design made it into a hotel. Across from the New Assembly Building the building’s main function was, in Architect Kemalettin's own words; “a place native and international customers can feel the comfort of being in a European Hotel.” At the beginnings of the Republic period, the building served as the capital city’s most important building to host balls, receptions and organizations for state matters. However, as the city centre shifted to Kizilay-Bakanliklar in 1950's, it slowly lost its significance.
Two floors above a basement floor, along with a roof, the buildings ground floor receives its light from the centered openings positioned above the spacious ball room surrounded by corridors which open to the hotels rooms which create various shaped spaces. The rooms on the ground floor face the north and south, the symmetric upper floor is spread out and centered.
The symmetric masses jutting out of the front facade, is a fine example of the interesting National Architecture of the time. The back facade has no relation with the front, only some of the windows have arches.
All Ottoman structural and decorative items are collected on the front facade, as are the decorative motif reliefs, ceramic tiles, plaster ceiling decorations and Mukarnas style column capitals in the interior of the entrance level. The upper floors are more simple in contrast. The building was built for a modest and suitable price of 400.000 TL. Today it is used as Foreign Affairs Ministerium State Guest House.
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