Master Plan Progress Meeting

In meeting the objectives of "Istanbul Theme Park" project master plan, the developer consortium invited 5 internationally recognized Architectural practices experienced in master planning to gather IDEAS. This invitation only commissioning was led by Prof. Dr. Suha Özkan of METU, a prominent figure in Architectural World who has been the Secretary General of 'The Aga Khan Award for Architecture' in Geneva, Switzerland since 1991.

The selected teams were CivicArts of London, UK; Edward Cullinan Architects of North London, UK; HOK of Chicago, USA; Gensler of Santa Monica, USA; Nikken Sekkei of Tokyo, Japan. On May 23rd-25th 2011, all teams presented their IDEAS to the developer consortium at meetings held in Istanbul, Turkey.

The consortium members and the advisory board led by Prof. Dr. Süha Özkan selected the American firm, Gensler, to develop the final scheme for the project. Here, in this web portal, you may review all the proposed IDEAS which the consortium believes are worth spreading.