Turkish Architecture Designs: Buildings in Turkey
Key Architectural Developments in Turkey, Europe / Asia Built Environment designs updates.
post updated 28 September 2026
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Modern Turkish Architecture News, chronological:
19 January 2026
FNN Sustainablity Center, Ceyhan, Adana, south east Turkey
Design: ACARARCH
photo © Egemen Karakaya
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Turkish Building News
Turkish Architecture News in 2025
3 November 2025
Esca Restaurant, İstinyePark, Izmir, Western Turkey
Design: Urbanjobs
photo : İbrahi̇m Özbunar
22 September 2025
Karakaya Headquarters, Çankaya, Ankara building, central Turkey
Design: Neowe
photo : Ka Atölye
22 August 2025
Myk Alaz Restaurant, Çankaya, Ankara building
Design: Neowe
photo : Ni̇hal Ceylan
9 July 2025
BodrumBodrum Homes, Tilkicik Bay, Yalıkavak, Mugla Province, south west Turkey
Architectural Design: architects Arif Özden, Sinan İzgi and Tanju Özelgin
photo courtesy of architects office
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e-architect choose what we feel are the major examples of Turkish Architecture. We aim to include Turkish buildings that are either of top quality or interesting.
This resource covers completed buildings, new building designs, architectural exhibitions and Turkish design competitions across Turkey. The site focuses on contemporary buildings in Turkey but information on key traditional Turkish buildings is also welcome.
We have many pages of Turkish architecture designs.
Turkey Property Designs in 2024
3 November 2024
Private7 Villas, Çekmeköy, Northwestern Turkey
Design: BARN arch.
photo : Egemen Karakaya
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Turkish Building Designs
Turkey Property Developments in 2023
1 Nov 2023
Design-led revitalisation, Hatay Province, Southeast Turkey
Design: Foster + Partners and BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group
render : Foster + Partners
Design-led revitalisation of Hatay Province
5 Sep 2023
Çanakkale Antenna Tower, Dardanelles Strait, northwestern Turkey
Design: IND [Inter.National.Design] & Powerhouse Company
render : Foster + Partners
Çanakkale Antenna Tower
21 Sep 2023
Nest Residence, Izmir, Western Turkey – on the Aegean Sea
Design: SANALarc
photo : Metehan Ozcan
Nest Residence in Turkey
31 Aug 2023
Longoz Houses, Black Sea Coast, Northern Turkey
Design: Strom Architects
render : Strive CGI
Longoz Houses, Northern Turkey
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Turkish Architecture Designs in 2022
16 Sep 2022
CAJA by Maxx Royal Bodrum resort, Bodrum, Mugla Province, southwest Turkey
Architectural Design: GEOMIM ; Interior Design: GEO_ID
photo : Emre Dorter
CAJA by Maxx Royal Bodrum resort
7 Jul 2022
DE Bodrum Museum, Bodrum, Mugla Province, southwest Turkey
Design: Aytac Architects
render : Aytac Architects
DE Bodrum Museum, Mugla Province
15 June 2022
Tarsus Old Ginnery Rehabilitation, eastern part of the Mersin Province, south-central Turkey
Design: Sayka Construction Architecture Engineering Consultancy
photo : Cemal Emden
Tarsus Old Ginnery Rehabilitation
6 Jun 2022
METU Research Park, Ankara, central Turkey
Design: EAA-Emre Arolat Architecture
photos : Thomas Mayer, Cemal Emden and EAA-Emre Arolat Architecture
METU Research Park, Ankara
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
Istanbul Painting and Sculpture Museum
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Turkey architecture designs, Istanbul buildings, Turkish architect news, modern property proposals images
Turkey Property Developments 2013
23 Apr 2013
Ziraat Bank Headquarters, Istanbul
Design: Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates
Ziraat Bank Headquarters Turkey
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.
12 Apr 2013
Yalikavak Marina, Mugla, southwest Turkey
Design: EAA-Emre Arolat Architects
Turkish Marina Buildings
Yalikavak is one of the lagoons on the southwestern coast of Turkey, which is becoming a popular destination for blue voyages along the Turkish Riviera. Unlike its provincial center Bodrum, which has faced a building boom in 1980s with the increase of touristic activities, Yalikavak is still a relatively calm, smaller scale settlement with its natural landscape.
13 Mar 2013
Ping and Optimedia, Istanbul
Design: OSO Architecture
Ping and Optimedia Istanbul
6 Mar 2013
Yapi Kredi ACCR Building, Gebze
Architects: Teget Architectural Office
photo : Cemal Emden
Yapi Kredi ACCR Building
The ACCR Building has been built to the campus of Yapi Kredi Bank Operational Center in Gebze. The building -named by its programs (Archive) on basement floor, (Call Center) ground floor and (Restaurant) first floor- is a prism of 75×30 meters.
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Turkish Building Designs in 2012
13 Nov 2012
Bodrum Houses, Yalikavak, southwest Turkey
Design: Richard Meier & Partners
Bodrum Houses
Richard Meier & Partners unveils the first completed project in Turkey’s Bodrum Peninsula. While the plan of each prototype remains fixed regardless of its location on the site, the organization of the podiums varies depending on the siting of the individual parcels.
4 Oct 2012
Çubuklu Vadi Residences, western Turkey
Design: EAA-Emre Arolat Architects
The main inputs in the design of this project for a suburban residence and hotel complex to be built on a 1.5 million-m2 area were contextual features such as the unusual slope of the lot, the dense vegetation, and the view toward the north. Another influence were effects of architectural languages regarding imagery exhausted in recent local settlement projects.
21 Sep 2012
Adana Çukurova – Cultural Centre Building, southeast Turkey
Design: Derya Ekim Öztepe and Ozan Öztepe
Adana Çukurova
Derya Ekim Öztepe and Ozan Öztepe’s project won the First Prize for this Turkish architectural competition for a city hall and cultural center. Construction of the building is now well under way.
28 Aug 2012
Raif Dinckok Cultural Center, Yalova
Design: EAA-Emre Arolat Architects
Raif Dinckok Cultural Center
It is possible to say that cities are made out of different contextual layers which time by time come near each other or on top of each other, even intertwine at times and ground their specific existing states. In the Yalova example peculiar to this city, oppositions between the main layers stand out.
11 Aug 2012
Doga Dragos, Istanbul
Design: Erginoğlu & Çalışlar Architecture
Doga Dragos Building
23 Jul 2012
Koç Primary School Swimming Pool, Istanbul
Erginoğlu & Çalışlar Architecture
School Swimming Pool Turkey
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 Project, Istanbul
Swanke Hayden Connell Architects
Palladium Tower Project
Swanke Hayden Connell Architects has won the design competition for the Palladium Tower project, in Istanbul, Turkey. The 49,500 sq metre project, located on the Asian side of Istanbul was commissioned by Tahincioglu Gayrimenkul (Tahincioglu Real Estate).
17 Jan 2012
Istanbul Telecommunications Tower
Design: RTA-Office / Dome Partners
Istanbul Telecommunications Tower
The topography of mountains in the Asian side of Istanbul ends in the mountains of Çamlica, the gravitational center of Istanbul. It is the center of population density of more than 15 million, and that revolves around this center.
9 Jan 2012
Atasehir Tower, Istanbul
Design: RMJM Architects
Atasehir Tower Istanbul
RMJM’s Dubai studio has just received 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.
9 Jan 2012
Sancaklar Mosque, Buyuk Cekmece
Design: EAA-Emre Arolat Architects
Sancaklar Mosque, western Turkey
This new turkish building is located in Buyuk Cekmece, a suburban neighborhood in the outskirts of Istanbul. It aims to address the fundamental issues of designing a mosque by distancing itself from the current architectural discussions based on form and focusing solely on the essence of religious space.
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17 Dec 2011
Renaissance Tower, Istanbul
Design: FXFOWLE
Renaissance Tower
This new Turkish building is located on the Asian side of Istanbul at the intersection of the two major highways that connect the continents.
10 Nov 2011
Zorlu Levent Office Tower, Istanbul
Design: Tabanlioglu Architects
Turkish Office Tower
Multistorey high-rise office tower is located at the financial district of Istanbul housing several of the world’s top financial institutions and other service sector leaders. The complex consist of 170 meter major office tower with 41 office floors and garden-offices at the 2-4 floors low-rise extension.
5 Aug 2011
Asmaçatı Shopping and Meeting Point, İzmir, western Turkey
Design: Tabanlioglu Architects
Turkish Retail Building
Located in the largest city of the Aegean Coast of Turkey, the semi-open shopping facility appreciates and joins the lifestyle of Izmir where people prefer to spend time outdoors with respect to warm climate. Inspired by the climate and tradition of spending time outdoors the facility naturally creates leisure zones between shops.
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12 Jan 2010
Santral Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum, Istanbul
2007
Design: EAA-Emre Arolat Architects / Nevzat Sayn (NSMH)
Santral Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum
The first power plant of the Ottoman Empire was built at the point where the Golden Horn ends. Its construction began in 1910 and the plant was in operation until 1984. The program, which was introduced with main headings such as education, culture, art, and recreation, developed through faculty buildings, studios, laboratories, museum, gallery, restaurant, concert hall, and library.
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Architecture in Turkey
Major Modern Turkish Architecture Projects, alphabetical:
7800 Çesme Turkey
Design: EAA-Emre Arolat Architects
Aegean Breeze at Alaçati, west Turkey
Design: LEO A DALY
Turkish Resort Buildings
Bodrum Primex Boutique Hotel Building
Design: Tuncer Cakmakli Architects
Bodrum Primex Boutique Hotel
Borusan Music & Art House, Istanbul
Design: GAD
Borusan Music & Art House
Bursa Wholesale Market, Bursa
Design: Tuncer Cakmakli Architects
Bursa Wholesale Market, northwest Turkey
Cepa Shopping Center, Ankara
Design: Oncuoglu Architecture-Planning
Cepa Shopping Center
Dogan Medya Center, central Turkey
Tabanlioglu Architects
Dogan Medya Center Ankara building
Forum Kapadokya, Nevsehir, Central Anatolia Region
Design: ERA Planning, Architecture, Consulting
Forum Kapadokya Shopping Center
Göktürk Arketip Housing, Istanbul, western Turkey
Design: EAA-Emre Arolat Architects
Göktürk Arketip Housing
Hagia Sophia, Istanbul
Dates built: AD 532-37
Architects: Isidore of Miletus & Anthemius of Tralles
Hagia Sophia
Ipekyol Textile Factory, Edirne
Emre Arolat Architects
Turkish Textile Factory building
Istanbul Apartments
Design: Swanke Hayden Connell Architects
Istanbul Apartments
Istanbul Telecommunications Tower
Design: RTA-Office / Dome Partners
Istanbul Telecommunications Tower
Izmir Opera House
Design: Tuncer Cakmakli Architects
Izmir Opera House
Izmit Urban Design Concept Project
Design: Tuncer Cakmakli Architects
Izmit Urban Design Concept Project
Kanyon, Levent, Istanbul
Jerde Partnership / Tabanlioglu Architects
Kanyon Istanbul : Turkish retail architecture
An international retail destination, Istanbul is home to two historic bazaars, including Grand Bazaar, which is billed as the world’s oldest and largest covered market, and nearly 30 modern shopping malls that have been built since 1988. More than 15 additional shopping and mixeduse districts are planned for near-term development.
Kuum Hotel, Spa & Residences, Bodrum
Design: GAD Architects
Turkish Hotel Building, south west Turkey
The KUUM Hotel, Spa & Residences is an innovative concept for boutique lifestyle and resorts. The architecture for KUUM was inspired by the regional beauty, resources and historical legacy of southwestern Turkey and the Aegean Sea.
Levent Loft, Istanbul
Levent Loft Istanbul
The existing construction primarily started as an office building; the building is re-designed as a residence within the Loft concept. The existing wall separating the building from the two adjacent factories is refurbished as a green wall creating a natural atmosphere.
LOFT Gardens, Istanbul
Design: Tabanlioglu Architects
photograph © Hélène Binet
LOFT Gardens Istanbul
Following the success of first Levent Loft, a transformation project on Maslak-Levent axis, Loft Gardens is designed in the concept of “soft loft”. The 21-storey mid-rise transparent residence block comprised of loft apartments at various size and forms; nature friendly with its vertical gardens designed as private walkout terraces, balconies, garden patios.
Manisa Building, western Turkey
Design: RTA-Office / DOME Partners (Istanbul)
Turkish Municipal Building
Museum of Troy, Çanakkale
Design: RTA-Office with DOME Partners
New Turkish Museum Building
The aim is that the building rises in the Turkish area of Çanakkale but aspires to be a global focus through its expression and display of the culture of a civilisation. A project that will act as a generator for social activity, research and culture.
Palladium Tower Project, Istanbul, Turkey
Design: Swanke Hayden Connell Architects
Palladium Tower Project
International architectural practice, Swanke Hayden Connell Architects has won the design competition for the Palladium Tower project, in Istanbul, Turkey. The 49,500 sq metre project, located on the Asian side of Istanbul was commissioned by Tahincioglu Gayrimenkul (Tahincioglu Real Estate).
Regnum Tower, eastern Istanbul
Design: Park Associati
image from architect office
Regnum Tower : Design Competition
The 145-metre high building consists of 36 floors, 9 of which are allocated for offices and the remainder for residential units.
Sapphire – Levent Tower, central Istanbul
Design: Tabanlioglu Architects
Istanbul Sapphire
261-meter Istanbul Sapphire, a residential, leisure zone and shopping center project, is the highest structure in Maslak, CBD of Istanbul. Rising upward, the building gets slightly thinner.
SSM Concert Hall Building, Istanbul
Design: Nevzat Sayin, NSMH
Sakip Sabanci Museum Concert Hall
The Bosphorus in Istanbul, which expresses most sharply the divide between Asia and Europe, is one of the places that must be preserved unchanged with the boats both large and small that go through it and the fabric that surrounds it.
Swiss Consulate, Istanbul
Design: Tuncer Cakmakli Architects
Swiss Consulate Turkey
The Swiss government bought 800m2 area at one of the high rises of Istanbul. They wanted Tuncer Cakmakli Architects to take responsibility of the application process and site control beside designing according to functions.
Varyap Shopping Living Center, Ataşehir
Design: EAA-Emre Arolat Architects
Varyap Shopping Living Center, Istanbul
The Shopping and Life Style Center project, considered as a continuation of Varyap Meridian project in West Atasehir for the same client, designed with an approach that is separated from the current shopping centers. The development appeals to the motivations of the world of spectacle, serving as the buildings closed to their inside.
Yesil Vadi Mosque, Istanbul
Design: Adnan Kazmaoglu MAM ARC
photograph : Engin Gercek
Turkish Mosque Building
Centric planned Ottoman mosques are circularized, permitted by extent of construction. In the design process of Yesil Vadi Mosque circle is used as the main form in two-dimension and three-dimension.
Zorlu Center, Istanbul
Design: Tabanlioglu Architects with EAA
Zorlu Center Istanbul
Zorlu Center
Design: EAA-Emre Arolat & Tabanlioglu Architects
Zorlu Center
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Turkish Architecture Developments – No Images
Turkish Architecture – No Images
Ataturk Airport – International Terminal building, Istanbul
2004
Design: GMW Architects
Esentepe, Istanbul
Date built: 2010
Design: Bothe, Richter, Teherani (Hamburg)
Major Turkish mixed-use building development : Apartments, Hotel, Convention Center
House in an Olive Grove, Bademli, Dikili, Izmir, west Turkey
2008
Design: Sevki Pekin Mimarlik ve Insaat Limited Sirketi
Lakeside House, Kaz Mountain, Balikesir Province, Northwest Turkey
2007
Boran Ekinci Architects
Levent Social Club, Istanbul
2007
Design: Sanal Architecture
Meydan-Umraniye retail complex, Istanbul
2007
Design: Foreign Office Architects
Tekfen Yalikavak Housing Complex & Hotel, Mugla
2008
Trafo-mimarlar
Teni Houses / Greenside residence, Mugla
2007
YPT – YAPI PLANLAMA TASARIM
Turkish Red Crescent, Gölcük, Kocaeli Province
Tuncer Cakmakli Architects
Turkish Red Crescent
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More Turkish Architecture Developments projects online soon.
Location: Turkey, Asia / Europe.
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Turkish Architectural Design
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Architectural Projects in countries near Turkey
ArkiPARC Turkish Architecture Event organised by Arkitera Architecture Centre.
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