Amanruya

The north side of the Bodrum Peninsula, above Mandalya Bay. Amanruya opened in August 2011 as the twenty-fourth property of Amanresorts: thirty-six freestanding stone guesthouses drawn by Emine Öün and Mehmet Öün of Emine Öün Mehmet Öün Architects Co. Öün’s father, the architect Turgut Cansever, had built a holiday village on the same peninsula almost three decades earlier. It is the register’s case of a resort inherited as a brief rather than commissioned as one. It is closed as this is written.

The house

The ground was an architect’s before it was a hotel’s. Turgut Cansever, with Emine Ögün, Mehmet Ögün and Feyza Cansever, built Demir Holiday Village at Bodrum, completed in 1987: “18 villas spread over 2.7 hectares”, walls of load-bearing stone fifty centimetres thick, and a facade treatment that “varies for each unit, in order to avoid standardization”. The work is listed under the Aga Khan Award for Architecture’s 1990–1992 cycle. Interior Design records that Cansever had developed “a small vacation village on the Bodrum peninsula” almost three decades before Amanruya, and that “the 123-acre property” passed to his daughter and her husband.

Amanresorts announced the house in June 2011 as its twenty-fourth property, opening in August with “36 pool terrace cottages with varying courtyard and swimming pool designs” in “local materials including stone, acajau wood and Turkish marble”. Interior Design, writing in 2013, puts it at “a 97,000-square-foot compound” of “36 freestanding stone guesthouses” joined by stone paths, with African mahogany in some ceilings and Turkish marble through the public rooms. The fact sheet of 2023 counts the thirty-six in four grades and records a kilometre of private beach, a fifty-metre infinity pool “lined with green marble from Antalya”, and a forty-foot Vicem yacht. As read in October 2026 the resort is closed for works, with no reopening date published.

What distinguishes it

The architect of the land came first, and the hotel came to him Turgut Cansever built Demir Holiday Village on the Bodrum peninsula, completed in 1987 and recognised in the Aga Khan Award for Architecture’s 1990–1992 cycle. Interior Design records that the 123-acre property passed to his daughter and her husband. Amanruya was drawn on ground that had already been worked out in stone.

The brief was inherited along with the title The Aga Khan Development Network lists the Demir authors as “Turgut Cansever, Emine Ögün, Mehmet Ögün, and Feyza Cansever”. The same Emine and Mehmet, as Emine Öün Mehmet Öün Architects Co., drew Amanruya. The two projects share authors, a peninsula and a method twenty-four years apart.

Thirty-six houses, not thirty-six rooms Interior Design describes “36 freestanding stone guesthouses” joined by stone paths across a 97,000-square-foot compound. The 2023 fact sheet counts the same thirty-six in four grades, from five Pool Suites to seven Pool Pavilion Deluxe Sea View. The plan reads as a settlement because its predecessor on the ground was one.

The stone has more than one name in print Interior Design calls the walling “locally quarried strawberry stone”, the regional name for a rose-coloured slate, grouted with pink mortar. The resort’s own fact sheet says only “Constructed from local stone and wood”. The register’s note calls it mulberry stone; the register records the difference rather than resolving it.

Signature rooms and dates

Competitive landscape