Atatürk Cultural Centre is a dark 70´s style building with endless stairs and corridors,steel ceilings and abandoned seating lounges. Rather few art works are exhibited in the building, amongst the artists, Vahran Aghasyan, photos of a flooded city. The most interesting work is Xu Zhen´s work
"8848-1.86", an installation piece that documents the artist chopping
of the last1.86 meter ice cap of Mount Everest.

http://www.release01.com/node/815

Whatd oes that pic say? and why dont they fix that building? and most ofalk WHAT DOES THAT PIC SAY????????? Its arabic but i cant read a thing

It symbolizes the Tugra, the signature of one of the Ottoman Sultans. In my humble opinion the artistic background suppose to give a modern more or less abstract  effect.

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=tugra&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi