Istanbul Architecture News: Buildings
post updated 5 November 2026
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24 August 2026
Istanbul Engineering Structures
photo : Haroon Ameer / Unsplash
9 June 2026
Beymen Tersane luxury retail building design
Architecture: OMA
photo : Marco Cappelletti
26 March 2026
ORIGAMI A Sensory Bakery Experience, Tersane
Architecture: URBANJOBS
photo : İbrahim Özbunar – 645studio
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Istanbul Architecture News in 2025
Key contemporary buildings in western Turkey. Modern Southeast Europe built environment designs updates.
Istanbul Architectural News + Key New Western Türkiye Property Designs, chronological:
27 September 2025
SANATORIUM Istanbul contemporary art gallery, Beyoğlu
Architecture: architect Nevzat Sayin
photo courtesy of SANATORIUM
23 September 2025
Quartz Plaza, Istanbul, Turkey office building design
Architecture: Salon Alper Derinbogaz
photo : Cemal Emden
post updated 3 May 2025
Golden Horn Library Istanbul building design
Architecture: Aytac Architects
image : Alper Aytac
23 April 2025
SU Residential Building, Erenköy
Design: Aytaç Architects
image : Aytac Architects
1 January 2025
Zenel residential tower, Erenköy
Design: Aytaç Architects
photograph : Cemal Emden
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Istanbul Buildings News in 2024
Istanbul Architectural News in 2024
30 November 2024
Groove Heaven Shop, Fatih
Architects: Salon Alper Derinbogaz
photo : Salon
28 November 2024
Kucukcekmece Djemevi, Küçükçekmece
Design: EAA-Emre Arolat
image : EAA-Emre Arolat
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Istanbul Building News in 2023
14 September 2023
VAKKO Offices, Bagdat Avenue
Design: HQ Architects
render : HQ Architects
Following a successful and longstanding creative collaboration with leading Turkish Fashion Company, VAKKO, HQ Architects has been commissioned to design another two buildings for the client in Istanbul. The collaboration between HQ and VAKKO showcases its dedication to create exciting architecture that communicates the DNA of the brand and promotes innovative and progressive design values.
3 May 2023
Istanbul Modern building by Renzo Piano
Design: Renzo Piano Building Workshop – RPBW
photograph : Cemal Emden
Istanbul Modern, Türkiye’s first museum of modern and contemporary art, will open to visitors in a new building designed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop on Thursday May 4, 2023. The official opening ceremony of the museum will take place at a later date.
BOMONTIADA Istanbul, western Turkey landscape
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Istanbul Architecture News in 2022
8 Dec 2022
Atatürk Cultural Center
Design: Tabanlioglu Architects
photos : Thomas Mayer, Cemal Emden, Engin Gerçek and EAA Emre Arolat
Atatürk Cultural Center is located in Taksim Square, which hosts the intense urban activity of Istanbul and even Turkey. AKM is one of the landmarks of this crucial square and appears to have been reconstructed as of 2021.
4 Jun 2022
Istanbul Painting and Sculpture Museum, Karaköy Harbor, Istanbul, Western Turkey
Design: EAA Emre Arolat
photos : Thomas Mayer, Cemal Emden, Engin Gerçek and EAA Emre Arolat
In 2009 Entrepot Number 5 in the Karaköy Harbor was allocated to Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University for the purpose of transforming it into the Istanbul Painting and Sculpture Museum. Thus was the way cleared for the public use of an area which, although located on an important site in the city center, had almost no social permeability, and for the building of an original, high-quality museum to house thousands of valuable works including important pieces of late Ottoman to modern Turkish painting.
5 Mar 2022
Aksemsettin Primary School, Küçükcekmece
Design: Uygur Architects
photo : Cemal Emden
Aksemsettin Primary Schoo is just one of the schools within the scope of the package project ’45 Public Buildings in Istanbul’ designed and projected by Uygur. The schools, which were decided to be demolished and rebuilt in Istanbul within the scope of ISMEP (Istanbul’s Seismic Risk Mitigation and Emergency Project), are designed in a unique way in their own context, on the same plot by increasing their capacity.
12 Jan 2022
Maslak Square, Istanbul Building
Design: HPP Architekten
photo : Cemal Emden
Just a few years after completing the 26-storey, internationally award-winning AND Tower in Istanbul, HPP Architects is now delivering the city a new landmark. The building ensemble for the client Kapital Real Estate Development comprises two crystalline volumes of differing heights which will stand in the central business district of Maslak, making a previously inaccessible commercial site available for public use again.
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Istanbul Architecture News 2021
30 Oct 2021
Apple Bagdat Caddesi Istanbul Building
Design: Foster + Partners Architects
photograph © Apple
One of the most iconic and lively shopping destinations in Istanbul, the tree-lined avenue attracts visitors from all over the world and is likened to Paris’ Champs-Élysées. The standalone building is set back from the busy shopping street, creating a generous tree-lined square – a public plaza for the celebration of urban life.
8 Jun 2021
Sanko HQ Istanbul
Architecture: RMJM Milano
picture from architecture office
Architectural competition win to design the new Sanko Headquarters, one of Turkey’s oldest group of companies. Their landmark design was selected among other prestigious firms for its sustainable and innovative features.
22 Apr 2021
Dr. Oktay Duran High School
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West Turkey Architectural Updates 2020
2 Dec 2020
Istanbul Festival of Architecture 2020 News
11 Jul 2020
Hagia Sophia Building
9 Jul 2020
Arter Contemporary Art Museum
Architects: Grimshaw
photograph : Quintin Lake
A subsidiary of Turkey’s philanthropic Vehbi Koç Foundation, Arter Contemporary Art Museum is a vibrant cultural hub that brings together artists and audiences to celebrate contemporary art in all its forms and disciplines. Conceived as a dynamic multi-layered, interdisciplinary public building for showcasing artistic works, it offers a rich cultural programme to stimulate and challenge its audience.
7 Jul 2020
5th Istanbul Design Biennial, Turkey
15 May 2020
Parkorman Masterplan
26 Mar 2020
Zula Zorlu by URBANJOBS
Address: Zorlu Center, Levazım, Barbaros Blv. No:2, 34340 Beşiktaş / İstanbul, Turkey
Distinctive and Calm: Zula Zorlu
photograph : Emre Dorter
A rich voice; neither screams, nor keeps quiet. It speaks only when it considers necessary. It is neither visible, nor invisible. Distinctive, calm, conceived. Zula Zorlu, located in Istanbul, is designed by URBANJOBS.
The key concern is whether it is possible to design a planned and controlled space having aesthetic and functional concerns, but in a way not overdesigned with such concerns.
This project that seeks for the barest states of spatial search, endeavors to offer one of the most natural expressions of restaurant culture in Turkey. This may be a restaurant or a store. The sole type of food offered inside, on the other hand, is a synthesis of the idea that the space is not required to offer “more than” it should. A volume totally purified from its unnecessities, perfectly simple.
Only functions; cooking, serving, washing and eating. Net areas allocated for these and carefully planned spaces. The advanced simplicity in this project constituting a good model where 4 significant spatial elements, strength, function, beauty and emotion, are gently and selectively applied, indeed points out a line that is the exact opposite of what “Instagram architecture” looks for.
photograph : Emre Dorter
It neither keeps quiet nor screams in a struggle for creating itself. It has no intention to give more than what eye sees. Plain forms, naked rhythms, free from assertion and chaos, limited by what eyes see and ears hear. The third location of the brand, which does not feel the need to add any other word to its name indicating what it sells, is actually one of the rare models in Turkey by its simple and sterile design. Trying to add visible elements into this plain attitude with distinctively designed chairs and bar chairs, the space exhibits what needs to be highlighted by its illumination on the tables, displaying what it wants us to see.
photo : Emre Dorter
Project Name: Zula Zorlu
Design Office: URBANJOBS
Project Location: Istanbul / Turkey
Photography: Emre Dorter
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West Turkey Property Developments in 2019
23 Sep 2019
Garanti BBVA Bank Technology Campus in Istanbul
Design: ERA Architects
photography : Cemal Emden
Located between major highways of Istanbul, D-100 and TEM, in the proximity of Sabiha Gökçen Airport in Pendik, Istanbul, the project transforms an old industrial chemical factory land into a technology company campus for one of the most dynamic Turkish banks.
11 Aug 2019
BJK Nevzat Demir Facility Istanbul: Spa & Pool, Beşiktaş Esports – Çekmeköy
Architects: Elips Design Architecture
picture courtesy of architecture office
BJK Nevzat Demir Facility was re-designed by Istanbul based Elips Design Architecture as an indoor pool and a spacious spa area for the football players of Besiktas Sports Club, which is one of the leading sports clubs in Turkey.
6 Aug 2019
Koc University Medical Sciences Campus in Istanbul, Topkapi district
Architects: Kreatif Mimarlik + Cannon Design
picture courtesy of architecture office
From the early stages of the project, design workshops were organized with representatives of different parties, including doctors, nurses, professors and the management team.
28 Mar 2019
BJK Football Club Building No1903
Design: Elips Design & Architecture
picture courtesy of architecture office
Mixed use project to reflect the spirit of this Turkish football club founded in 1903.
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Turkish Capital Architectural Updates 2018
30 Nov 2018
Halic Shipyards Istanbul Building, Golden Horn
Design: Tabanlioğlu Architects
picture courtesy of architecture office
This new Turkish shipyard project is highly commended in the category ‘Future Projects – Commercial Mixed Use’ at the World Architecture Festival 2018.
24 Oct 2018
Bahçeköy House in Istanbul
Design: Habif Architects
photograph : Gürkan Akay
The house is designed for a young family of four, located in Bahçeköy. The main motive of our concept is to have capaciously open spaces for living areas and link the interior with the exterior through large Windows and terraces.
10 Oct 2018
Real Merter in Istanbul
Design: Tago Architects
image Courtesy architecture office
Real Merter which is a mixed-use building complex located in Istanbul Merter, which is the center of the commercial life is synthesizing the lively commercial life at the street level and the three blocks of residences within itself with an architectural style not turning its back on its surroundings.
12 Jun 2018
Validebag Konaklari Sales Office
Architects: Studio Vertebra
image Courtesy architecture office
Validebag Konaklari Sales Office designed by Studio Vertebra for Validebag Konaklari project realized by Dap Construction in Istanbul, Turkey allows its visitors not only to experience the house but also the district that they would be residing in; while making its presence exclusively felt with its remarkable vertical form.
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Turkish Capital Architectural Updates 2017
19 Sep 2017
Positive Energized Office in Istanbul
Architects: nord architecture design
photograph : Murat Tekin
1 Aug 2017
New Istanbul Airport Building Design
image Courtesy architecture office
With a vision of İstanbul New Airport as one of the world’s top aviation hubs, the airport project strives to set an example not only as an innovative infrastructure project, but also a driving force making significant contributions to Turkey’s sustainable development.
18 Jul 2017
Demirci Restaurant
Design: Caglayan Architects
photography : Emre Onemci
Caglayan Architects tackles the Demirci Restaurant which is located in Fatih, one of the old districts of Istanbul, in line with the historical context which it belongs to with an aim of taking the clients on an unforgettable journey in the restaurant along with the historical figures and colours.
21 Apr 2017
Şişli City Hall Building
Design: Boran Ekinci Architects
photography : Cemal Emden
The building in Şişli, one of the busiest centers of the city, is surrounded by school buildings, rises as a welcoming image at the intersection of major road junction. The program proposed for the municipilaty building is a horizontal spread programme scheme, which allows the maximum public utilisation.
17 Mar 2017
Masterplan for Istanbul’s Parkorman
Design: Dror, Architects
image Courtesy architecture office
Parkorman Masterplan Istanbul by Dror
Existing green spaces in Istanbul are few and far between. When considering the approach for a park located six miles north of the city center, we asked ourselves: how do we draw strangers-to-nature to this destination?
8 Mar 2017
Watergarden Project in Atasehir District of Istanbul
Design: GVDS – Gorkem Volkan Design Studio, Architects
image Courtesy architecture office
The Watergarden project in Istanbul, the spatial organization and the interior design of which belongs to GVDS – Gorkem Volkan Design Studio is distinguished from stereotypical shopping malls with its innovative concept of a recreational center focusing only on gastronomy and entertainment.
20 Feb 2017
Intertech R&D Building, Istanbul Technopark Campus
Design: ERA Architects
photograph : Omer Kanipak
Intertech R&D Building in Istanbul
8 Jan 2017
Sky Garden, Ortaköy Square
Design: SO? Architecture and Ideas
photo © yerçekim
Sky Garden in Istanbul
Sky Garden is a suspended garden in Ortaköy Square which is one of the most touristic and busiest squares in Istanbul. Putting a garden on the ground in such a congested area would reduce the walkable surface and make the square even more dense.
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Turkish Capital Property Development Updates 2016
17 Nov 2016
The Sales Office Yedi Mavi, Zeytinburnu
Architects: RSG Interior Design
image Courtesy architecture office
Yedi Mavi Sales Office, Zeytinburnu
14 Nov 2016
Metro Ofis Building, Pendik
Design: BFTA Mimarlik, architects
photograph : Gürkan Akay
Metro Ofis Building Istanbul
26 Jul 2016
Beyazit Public Library
Design: Tabanlioglu Architects
photograph : Emre Dorter
Beyazit Public Library in Istanbul
Restoration of a prominent library building in Istanbul, with its rare books and manuscript collection.
28 Oct 2016
Istanbul New Airport ATC Tower
Design: Aecom with Pininfarina
image Courtesy architecture office
Istanbul Airport New Traffic Control Tower
23 Feb 2016
International Terminal at Istanbul New Airport, Western Turkey
Design: Scott Brownrigg, Grimshaw, Nordic Office of Architecture and Haptic Architects
image from Scott Brownrigg
New Istanbul Airport Terminal
22 Mar 2016
Buyukyali Masterplan Scheme, Kazlicesme coastal road, on the Marmara Sea
Design: Chapman Taylor
image Courtesy architecture office
Buyukyali Masterplan Scheme in Istanbul
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Istanbul Architecture Designs 2015
31 Aug 2015
AND Office Tower, Kozyatağı
Design: HPP International
photography : Onur Gürkan
AND Office Tower in Istanbul
11 Dec 2015
Airport Traffic Control Tower
Design: RMJM Architects
image Courtesy architecture office
Airport Traffic Control Tower in Istanbul
11 Nov 2015
Besiktas Fish Market
Design: GAD Architecture
photograph : Ozlem Avcioglu, Ozan Ertug, Alp Eren
Besiktas Fish Market in Istanbul
31 Aug 2015
Monk Restaurant at Babylon Beach Club
Design: Selin Maner Architect
image Courtesy architecture office
Monk Restaurant at Babylon Beach Club
12 Oct 2015
Trump Cadde, Mecidiyekoy, Istanbul, northwest Türkiye
Design: Gokhan Avcioglu & GAD
picture : Alp Eren
Trump Cadde Istanbul
11 Sep 2015
Esas Aeropark in Istanbul
Design: Tabanlioglu Architects
photograph : Murat Germen
Esas Aeropark in Istanbul
28 May 2015
42 Maslak Towers
Design: Chapman Taylor Architects
image Courtesy architecture office
7 Apr 2015
Selcuk Ecza Headquarters in Istanbul
Design: Tabanlıoğlu Architects
photograph : Thomas Mayere
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Istanbul Building Design News in 2014
Istanbul Architecture News in 2014
21 Nov 2014
Taksim Square Sculptural Gate
Design: GAD Architecture
photograph © AlpEren
Taksim Square Sculptural Gate in Istanbul
A modular sculptural installation, designed by award-winning Istanbul and New York based architectural practice GAD Architecture, has been recently featured in Istanbul’s famous Taksim Square during Istanbul Design Week.
29 Oct 2014
Sishane Park in Istanbul, Sishane, Beyoglu-Istanbul
Design: SANAL arc
photograph © olivve.com
Sishane Park in Istanbul
This park is a bold shift regarding the public spaces in the center of Istanbul. Located between the southwestern edge of Beyoglu and Tarlabasi Road, the site used to be a park with a fire station that was connected to the water front before the road with a heavy traffic was built in the 70s.
22 Aug 2014
Lego Turkey
Design: OSO Architecture
picture : OSO Architecture
Lego Turkey in Istanbul
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28 Dec 2013
Ziraat Bank Headquarters
Design: Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF)
picture from architects
Ziraat Bank Headquarters Building
International architecture firm Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF) is pleased to announce that, as its first project in Turkey, it has been commissioned to design the new headquarters for the country’s largest and oldest financial institution, Ziraat Bank (Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Ziraat Bankası), in the heart of Istanbul.
17 Sep 2013
Emporis Skyscraper Award 2012 shortlisted:
Varyap Meridian
Dumankaya IKON
19 Jul 2013
Koç Contemporary
Design: Grimshaw
image from architect
Koç Contemporary – Istanbul Art Museum
After a competitive selection process Grimshaw is delighted to announce that it has been selected by the Vehbi Koç Foundation to design Koç Contemporary, a new contemporary art museum in Istanbul.
20 May 2013
Premier Campus Office in Kagithane
Design: JDS Architects
image from architect
Premier Campus Office
The volume of the block is literally carved out to invite the surroundings in. The local hilly landscape, characteristic to Istanbul, is continued in the meandering of the volume both in plan, adapting to the site’s edges, and in section, weaving into itself in a series of gentle curving slopes, echoing the nearby Bosphorus waves.
13 Mar 2013
New Istanbul International Financial Center Buildings
Design: HOK
image : HOK
Istanbul International Financial Center
HOK-Designed Master Plan for New Istanbul International Financial Center Now Under Construction. £1.7 billion (US$2.6 billion) project is integral to Turkey’s plan to make its economy one of the world’s 10 largest by 2023
13 Mar 2013
Ping and Optimedia
OSO Architecture
Ping and Optimedia Istanbul
This project is designed for two different companies which are located in the same flat. The two companies, one of them being “Optimedia” with 36 employees & the other being “Ping” with 70 employees, share a total of 980 m² space.
14 Feb 2013
Trump Towers in Turkey
Design: Brigitte Weber Architects
photo : Cemal Emden
Trump Towers in Turkey
Raising and declining dynamic structure of Trump Towers comes from this location which is heart of the transport and the junction for Asia and European which receives for 4 million people per day. Contrary to the common formed high-rise buildings, Trump Towers has a sculptural and dynamic image because of its prismatic and angular facades.
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12 Dec 2012
Boulevardi Mall
Design: DP Architects
Boulevardi Mall Istanbul
“To experience the real Istanbul, one must not only visit the Byzantine mosaics and colourful bazaars, but also walk its tangled streets”. The spirit of the city’s street life is the inspiration for the architecture of these new buildings designed by DP Architects.
4 Oct 2012
Çubuklu Vadi Residences
Design: EAA-Emre Arolat Architects
Çubuklu Vadi Residences
25 Aug 2012
E-bay Offices Istanbul
Design: OSO Architecture
E-bay Office Istanbul
11 Aug 2012
Doga Dragos
Design: Erginoğlu & Çalışlar Architecture
picture from architects
Doga Dragos Istanbul
Following the decision to transform the former industrial zones in the eastern part of İstanbul into residential areas, the rapidly expanding city gained new settlements. The parcel-based decisions made as part of the transformation model executed without a comprehensive and strategic master plan affected the immediate surroundings.
23 Jul 2012
Koç Primary School Swimming Pool, Istanbul, western Turkey
Erginoğlu & Çalışlar Architecture
Koç Primary School Swimming Pool
Considerably distant from the city center, the Koç School sprawled across its property without a master plan over time and thus was faced with the consequences of this expansion. Envisaged as the focal point of the campus, the pool building is designed as a pacesetter for the quality of future buildings and thus strives to contribute towards the architectural development of the campus.
15 May 2012
Palladium Tower Istanbul
Design: Swanke Hayden Connell Architects
Palladium Tower Building
The 49,500 sqm project is located on the Asian side of Istanbul. The building was commissioned by Tahincioglu Gayrimenkul (Tahincioglu Real Estate). It consists of an office tower situated on a 1.7-hectare site.
4 May 2012
Disaster Prevention Education Center
Dinkoff Architects & Engineers Inc.
Disaster Prevention Education Center Building
The rich culture of Turkey includes a monument to human achievement, invention, and practicality – a site called Cappadocia. More than two thousand years ago, the people of the region sought a strong, permanent and imposing shelter.
12 Apr 2012
Macka Hotel building
EAA-Emre Arolat Architects
Macka Hotel Istanbul
Formation of the urban fabric in Nisantasi-Tesvikiye district shares similar motivations with European cities that were developed at the same period. In the beginning of 20th century, the urban movements towards cities resulted in the need for high-quality urban residences for the urban bourgeoisie.
15 Feb 2012
Göktürk Arketip Housing
EAA-Emre Arolat Architects
Göktürk Arketip Housing
17 Jan 2012
Telecommunications Tower Istanbul
Design: RTA-Office in collaboration with Dome Partners
Istanbul Telecommunications Tower
We believe that the success of the idea goes through the way we understand “¨The site”. Our proposal comes in response to this wonderful and strategic point that has to rise up the Telecommunications Tower that the City of Istanbul plans to build.
11 Jan 2012
Atasehir Tower
Design: RMJM Architects
Atasehir Tower Building
RMJM’s Dubai studio receives planning approval for one of the tallest towers in Europe, located in the Atasehir district of Istanbul, Turkey. The design for the mixed-use building, including super-high-rise apartments, will consist of a tower nearly 300 metres tall comparable with the height of London’s Shard.
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10 Nov 2011
Zorlu Center
Tabanlioglu Architects with EAA
Zorlu Center Istanbul
The geometric features of the land are preserved and enhanced by dissimilar triangles forming the outer and inner surface of the shell in combination with the triangular forms of the blocks. The shell roofs the retail and recreation zone as well as the convention hall; through the rips on the landscaped surface, the sunken floors benefit the daylight.
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