Sedef Shipyard's Executive Office Building is a seven-story building located in Tuzla, Istanbul. Being 20 years old, the building itself had its own set of challenges when Delta came into the picture being asked to renovate it. Finding a sustainable way as much as possible through preserving the existing materials and staying within the budget to welcome Sedef's people to a modernised location were crucial factors that Ece Yilmaz, Creative Director, had to stay true to. Creatively, the main inspiration was Gerhard Richter's Seascapes painting series. The signature grays of Richter's works were applied throughout the building as the imitation of stormy weather, motioning the textures of each material that were used for floors and walls. In a literal sense, the concept is to bring in the idea of riding out inevitable storms of the business life of a shipping company. Setting a mood and defining a purpose for each zone using different shades of grays, halls were meant to awe the first comers. Meanwhile, each executive officer's own room choices symbolise their unique characters with different grays but the same materials with similar design aspects. Likewise, motivated by Italian Modernism, it has given a direction to the project to enrich the use of a few high-quality materials such as granite, marble, wood and leather. To be able to retain some of the original features of the building in the new design, the material palette has shaped around the existing Tan Brown granite. It has also given a new role as baseboard and enframement to doors and thresholds, in where the application of it has been used flush on walls to mimic the seamlessness of the horizon. The treatment of the Alpi wooden wall panels are adopted from the facade of shipyard hangers. While dramatic lighting breaks out the uniformity of the vertical and horizontal planes, lighting fixtures are purposefully the only elements that peer out from the surface. Sedef Shipyard, which frequently hosts local and international government officials, has briefed the space planning to create grand halls and meeting rooms to accommodate large groups. As the functionality of the materials addresses the enrichment of the elementariness, space planning addresses inclusivity with colossal emptiness. Therefore, the application of design elements for the executive meeting rooms was carefully thought to keep this direction in place. These interiors, just like Richter once said, are "motivated by the dream of classical order and a pristine world - by nostalgia, in other words - the anachronism in them takes on a subversive and contemporary quality. "