Building or ribbon? Meet turkey's new broadcast tower

All photos: Dezeen

Is it a building? Is it a ribbon? The new broadcast tower on its way to Turkey cannot decide. The design, by IND and Powerhouse Company, has won a competition to build a new 100-metre-high broadcast and observation structure in Çanakkale.

The building wraps elegantly around the forest-filled hilltop outside of the city in a ring before the undulating loop stretches up into a striking red tower.

Visitors will be able to "wander along a raised path that will loop around the site and lead to the visitor Centre, which will be built above the treetops on the edge of the hill facing the city", reports Dezeen. Indeed, the aim is to reduce any impact on the forest surrounding it by raising the building off the ground.

The building will include recreational facilities as well as observation decks and exhibition spaces - and, of course, the all-important communications mast, which is located away from the visitor Centre to lower the risk of potential radiation.

"The design of the new Çanakkale Antenna Tower resolves these paradoxes by uniting all the different functions and spatial requirement into one spatial gesture," the judges declared in an official statement.