Fashion of the Times | January 2002 in "Ottoman Odyssey, The Empire Strikes Back" by Amy Spindler, Fashion Of the Times, The New York Times Magazine, Part 2, Spring 2001 Nazli Gonensay, a young architect who just completed work on Circus, the restaurant in Nisantasi that all the fashionable are going to, moved back to Istanbul two years ago after having a thriving career in New York, and found the beginning of a revolution she's happy to be a part of. "The younger generation is becoming more gusty," Gonensay says. "It started with their homes, but now they're doing their offices. Even in cafes, there are eclectic menus, some going back to Turk?sh roots, some with fusion style and some with Asian. It's very dynamic, and hungry for progress. Hungry to catch up with London and New York as a capital of design." While Circus is modern and sleek- a stark glass diaroma in the back looks out on a tropical garden- there is still a touch of old Istanbul, which she says is "a combination of reflex and intuition." She adds, " I want to do something new, but there's a bit of the past in it." In Circus's case, it's the inspiration of Iznik ceramic tiles. Gonensay's design incorporates tiny Italian tiles in a range of bronzes and browns along the walls, like a running ticker tape of the past cutting through her clean, white slate walls of the present. She named her company 212 Architecture Furniture Design- an area code for New York and Istanbul. "We even have many Donald Trumps," says Gonensay, laughing. "They even look like him too, with that hairstyle." (Vanity Fair once described "that hairstyle"as"cantilevered nimbus," a term architects can appreciate.) In N?santasi, there are the chic New York- inspired restaurants like Downtown, Circus and Mezzaluna.