Esenyurt is a fast growing municipality (belediye) in the European side of Istanbul. It is located just west of Istanbul, next to the Büyükçekmece Lake, and had a population of 253,084 in 2007. In the past many of their areas were shantytowns (gecekondu), and over the time these areas have been transformed into chaotic neighbourhoods of small concrete houses, having two or three floors each one. Generally constructed by the own owners, many of those houses remained unfinished.The five enormous Regnum Astrum Towers, 31 floors each, have been built in an empty land there. It's a residential complex for medium-high class. It’s very interesting to compare the renders offered by the constructing company and the real images of the place, an empty land surrounded by low class neighbourhoods.
