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Sean Caulfield gazed at the room as if he'd been transported to Istanbul's outdoor markets, minarets and hookah bars.
"It's great. This room is so different from the other Nationality Rooms here at Pitt," said Caulfield, 19, of Plum, a sophomore at the University of Pittsburgh, while looking at the Turkish Nationality Room on Friday. It is the 28th and latest of the Nationality Rooms in the school's landmark Cathedral of Learning.
Designed by Omer Akin, professor of architecture at Carnegie Mellon University since 1977, the room is a "main room" in a traditional Turkish house, with seating along the walls. It will be dedicated on Sunday at a ceremony attended by Namik Tan, Turkey's ambassador to the United States.
The room...