25 Best Architecture and Design Firms in Turkey

Ottoman mosques subsequent to grand buildings courting again to the Byzantine Empire together with bustling native markets showcase a outstanding mix of historic traditions and fashionable sensibilities inside Turkey’s city cloth. Within the later a part of the twentieth century, following a interval of nice upheaval in Turkish society in addition to varied political actions and financial crises, modern architectural practices wanted to evolve to maintain up with their altering developments. Extra particularly, the nation expanded its world trades, extremely influencing the native building business and inserting emphasis on, materiality, sustainability and concrete regeneration methods.

Tasks from famend architects resembling Zaha Hadid’s Kartal Masterplan in 2006 in addition to Emre Arolat’s many architectural designs have contributed to the nation’s skyline and elevated its architectural scene. Because of this, present-day architects have remodeled Turkish structure into an amalgamation of its cultural dictionary coupled with much less inflexible and versatile designs that replicate the nation’s variety and fashionable identification.

With so many structure corporations to select from, it’s difficult for shoppers to determine the business leaders that can be a great match for his or her challenge wants. Luckily, Architizer is ready to present steerage on the highest design corporations in Turkey based mostly on greater than a decade of knowledge and business information.

How are these structure corporations ranked?

The next rating has been created based on key statistics that display every agency’s stage of architectural excellence. The next metrics have been accrued to determine every structure agency’s rating, so as of precedence:

The variety of A+Awards received (2013 to 2024)
The variety of A+Awards finalists (2013 to 2024)
The variety of initiatives chosen as “Challenge of the Day” (2009 to 2024)
The variety of initiatives chosen as “Featured Challenge” (2009 to 2024)
The variety of initiatives uploaded to Architizer (2009 to 2024)

Every of those metrics is defined in additional element on the foot of this text. This rating checklist can be up to date yearly, considering new achievements of Turkey structure corporations all year long.

With out additional ado, listed below are the 25 finest structure corporations in Turkey:

25. Orkun Nayki Structure

Based by Orkun Nayki in 2018. The agency goals to develop lean, useful and sustainable areas. As well as, the workplace realizes initiatives of assorted varieties and scales, aiming to extend the standard of life by contemplating every challenge in its personal context. Our agency is modern. Within the designs of an workplace; human, nature and sustainability is our focus. All design concepts are formed round this focus.

A few of Orkun Nayki Structure’s most distinguished initiatives embrace:

The next statistics helped Orkun Nayki Structure obtain twenty fifth place within the 25 Greatest Structure Companies in Turkey:

24. PIN Architects

PIN is a world architectural observe specializing in personal, business and public initiatives primarily in Turkey and the UK. On the again of numerous and worldwide experiences, established in 2014, PIN emphasise course of led work, making and innovation. By selling collaborative strategy to design by way of training, artwork and expertise, our strategy arrives at options, be it constructing, house or product that highlights the context of the challenge and the aspirations of the consumer and stakeholders. Establishing deep connections between individuals and our design is vital to our imaginative and prescient.

A few of PIN Architects’ most distinguished initiatives embrace:

The next statistics helped PIN Architects obtain twenty fourth place within the 25 Greatest Structure Companies in Turkey:

23. arkiZON

arkiZON is a thought, an thought, which redefines the house that brings structure into play as a software for creating new projections on modern life and alters its use within the advanced world of our present society. It goals on the conception of residing areas in a extra rhythmic manner, by reutilizing the standard relation of type and performance within the structure interacting with the development, circulation and program.

Thus offering a hyperlink between the brand new social construction, the impact of latest structure and our lives; it expands the horizon of individuals’s creativeness and alters the concepts that play a job within the formation of modernist structure with assistance from modern expertise.

A few of arkiZON’s most distinguished initiatives embrace:

The next statistics helped arkiZON obtain twenty third place within the 25 Greatest Structure Companies in Turkey:

22. Onurcan Çakır

Onurcan Çakır is an architect and architectural acoustics guide based mostly in Istanbul. His work revolves round residential structure.

A few of Onurcan Çakır’s most distinguished initiatives embrace:

The next statistics helped Onurcan Çakır obtain twenty second place within the 25 Greatest Structure Companies in Turkey:

21. DILEKCI Architects (DDA)

DİLEKCİ Architects (DDA) is a Istanbul based mostly architectural observe based by architect Durmus Dilekci. Amongst its accomplished award-winning initiatives are; Buyaka mixed-use challenge, metal structured Hilton Doubltree Avcilar resort and Mi’Costa resort and residences. Additionally we’re very happy with Mi’costa Resort and Residences Challenge that is without doubt one of the nominated initiatives from Turkey for European Union Prize, (Mies Van Der Rohe 2015).

A few of DILEKCI Architects (DDA)’s most distinguished initiatives embrace:

Mi’Costa Resort Residences , Çeşme, Turkey
Buyaka, Istanbul, Turkey
11:11, Istanbul, Turkey
YKK DLA Piper, Istanbul, Turkey
Status Mall, Istanbul, Turkey

The next statistics helped DILEKCI Architects (DDA) obtain twenty first place within the 25 Greatest Structure Companies in Turkey:

20. Slash Architects

Re-thinking varied typologies of structure by way of city, operational and spatial potentials; slasharchitects pursuits re-writing the constructed surroundings inside the city context. Integrating each scale and space of design, we prioritize a delicate strategy to all.

Combining numerous professions that intervene with architectural design, Slash Architects derives its title from the phrase “slasher”. In the present day the phrase “slasher” factors to a construction that embodies varied experience and subsequently achieves a extra holistic strategy to design. Versus “one-man-does-all structure” we intention to generate areas as a extra collaborative work integrating quite a lot of experiences and abilities.

A few of Slash Architects’ most distinguished initiatives embrace:

The next statistics helped Slash Architects obtain twentieth place within the 25 Greatest Structure Companies in Turkey:

19. Habif Architects

Habif Architects is an Istanbul based mostly workplace practising structure and multidisciplinary design

A few of Habif Architects’ most distinguished initiatives embrace:

Bahçeköy Home, Bahçeköy Merkez Mahallesi, Turkey
Akmerkez Administration Workplace , Istanbul, Turkey
Metrohm Turkey Workplace, Istanbul, Turkey
THE MANSION BOSPHORUS, İstanbul, Turkey
E POOLHOUSE, İstanbul, Turkey

The next statistics helped Habif Architects obtain nineteenth place within the 25 Greatest Structure Companies in Turkey:

18. MuuM

MuuM is an architectural studio based by Murat Aksu and Umut Iyigün in 1998.

The studio primarily focuses on structure, city and inside design.

A few of MuuM’s most distinguished initiatives embrace:

RÖNESANS|BİZ, Şişli, İstanbul, Turkey
RONESANS|BIZ , Istanbul, Turkey
Erciyes Congress and Cultural Middle, Kayseri, Turkey
Losev Pure Life Middle & Drugless Remedy Institute, Çankırı, Turkey
D Cafe, Istanbul, Turkey

The next statistics helped MuuM obtain 18th place within the 25 Greatest Structure Companies in Turkey:

17. Motto Structure

MOTTO is an interdisciplinary studio of architects, engineers, designers and students delivering design and consultancy companies for your complete constructing course of. Our complete expertise covers program growth, conceptual design, building documentation, supervision and consultancy for varied constructing varieties. We ship full design companies that reply each requirement of potential developments from the preliminary thought to put up occupancy state.

We perceive and cherish the truth that design can’t be confined to a inflexible definition {of professional} boundaries. Our interdisciplinary strategy relies on collaborative work processes that allow us to develop environment friendly and project-specific design options.

A few of Motto Structure’s most distinguished initiatives embrace:

KALECİK CULTURAL CENTER, Kalecik, Turkey
METU ARCHLABS, Ankara, Turkey
Van Ipekyolu Municipality, Van, Turkey
TESKI Headquarters, Tekirdağ, Turkey
Sakarya Erenler Housing and Social Middle, Sakarya, Turkey

The next statistics helped Motto Structure obtain seventeenth place within the 25 Greatest Structure Companies in Turkey:

16. GMW MIMARLIK

GMW MIMARLIK was established in 2000 below the management of Ali Evrenay Özveren, who was then a senior companion of GMW ARCHITECTS, a London observe initially fashioned in 1949. Based mostly in Nisantasi district of Istanbul, the observe is at present led by Dicle Demircioglu and Pinar Ilki, who joined Ali Evrenay Ozveren as companions in 2011. Following the completion of the brand new worldwide terminal challenge at Istanbul Atatürk Airport in 2000 GMWM has been commissioned to hold out a number of different main worldwide initiatives within the transportation sector in Europe, Center East and North Africa in addition to in Turkey.

A few of GMW MIMARLIK’s most distinguished initiatives embrace:

Eurasia Tunnel Operation and Upkeep Constructing, Istanbul, Turkey
Riyadh Airport Preliminary Challenge, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Istanbul Ataturk Airport Worldwide Terminal, Istanbul, Turkey
Cairo Worldwide Airport Terminal-3, Cairo, Egypt
Riga Worldwide Airport, Riga, Latvia

The next statistics helped GMW MIMARLIK obtain sixteenth place within the 25 Greatest Structure Companies in Turkey:

15. OSO Structure

OSO Structure is an Istanbul-based architectural studio established by Okan Bayık, Serhan Bayık and Ozan Bayık in 2007. A robust emphasis is given to the essential design course of inside the studio; we resist predetermining architectural options to a consumer’s temporary previous to an intensive investigation of every challenge’s distinctive state of affairs.

Our standards for design is to pay shut consideration to modern design strategies, new supplies and the financial issues of the consumer. We consider {that a} good challenge should mix all these areas.

A few of OSO Structure’s most distinguished initiatives embrace:

Bilişim Vadisi – Administrative Constructing, Kocaeli, Turkey
Lego Turkey, Istanbul, Turkey
MG&BPN, Istanbul, Turkey
Met International, Istanbul, Turkey
D&R Headquarter, Istanbul, Turkey

The next statistics helped OSO Structure obtain fifteenth place within the 25 Greatest Structure Companies in Turkey:

14. GAD ARCHITECTURE

International Architectural Growth has been a frontrunner in analysis and idea design in Europe since 1994. The agency is headed by design precept Gokhan Avcioglu who works with a devoted worldwide employees of architects and collaborators. GAD believes that present structure and urbanism are influenced by media, tradition, technological improvements, client habits and the way these elements have an effect on the builded surroundings at totally different scales.

GAD’s success lies in its methodical analysis of our consumer’s programmatic necessities, its iterative technique of digital and bodily modeling and meticulous course of innovation. GAD believes that structure as a observe depends on understanding historic structure actions in addition to analysis and experimentation.

A few of GAD ARCHITECTURE’s most distinguished initiatives embrace:

The next statistics helped GAD ARCHITECTURE obtain 14th place within the 25 Greatest Structure Companies in Turkey:

13. Voltaj Tasarim

VOLTAJ is an inside, furnishings and branding design company based mostly in Istanbul.

A few of Voltaj Tasarim’s most distinguished initiatives embrace:

The next statistics helped Voltaj Tasarim obtain thirteenth place within the 25 Greatest Structure Companies in Turkey:

12. ATÖLYE

ATÖLYE brings collectively a artistic hub and a strategic design studio to deal with depraved issues and create a constructive influence.

A few of ATÖLYE’s most distinguished initiatives embrace:

The next statistics helped ATÖLYE obtain twelfth place within the 25 Greatest Structure Companies in Turkey:

11. Alatas Structure and Consulting

Alatas Structure and Consulting is a observe based mostly in Istanbul focusing primarily on business structure.

A few of Alatas Structure and Consulting’s most distinguished initiatives embrace:

The next statistics helped Alatas Structure and Consulting obtain eleventh place within the 25 Greatest Structure Companies in Turkey:

10. BAD-BasakAkkoyunluDesign

We’re a multidisciplinary studio specialised in BESPOKE structure, inside design and building.

A few of BAD-BasakAkkoyunluDesign’s most distinguished initiatives embrace:

The next statistics helped BAD-BasakAkkoyunluDesign obtain tenth place within the 25 Greatest Structure Companies in Turkey:

9. Uygur Architects

Uygur Architects, based in 1986 by Semra Uygur and Özcan Uygur in Ankara, create city and architectural initiatives for 30 years. Alongside with outstanding works on cultural and academic buildings, Uygur Architects even have essential experiences in large-scale prestigious personal and public workplace buildings. Interpretation of the necessities and the principle purpose of the constructing is a vital part of the design course of for Uygur Architects and most often these are developed and altered collectively in dialogue with the shoppers as properly. Pondering of not solely the customers, but in addition the people who find themselves not directly affected by the constructing is a typical strategy in Uygur Architects’ works.

A few of Uygur Architects’ most distinguished initiatives embrace:

The next statistics helped Uygur Architects obtain ninth place within the 25 Greatest Structure Companies in Turkey:

8. Zemberek Design

Zemberek Design, a group primarily works on inside initiatives, is conservative about, beginning a design course of by “discovering the fitting query” is the important thing component, that reveals the essential and easiest thought, resulting in conclusion. This preliminary and most time-consuming part of the design course of evolves with dialogs and exchanging of concepts between the members of Zemberek Design Workforce.

Sometimes, constraints of current constructing, challenge requirement, hierarchy of capabilities or choices on circulation turns into the principle thought of design, along with contemplate the house notion of the person. “The precise query” that must be answered within the last challenge are taken into the consideration in its easiest type. Easy architectural options as reply to primary calls for of the house make the person understand the preliminary query. By the notion of house that’s prioritized at the start of the method, initiation of an involvement course of for the person by which the person is ready to learn and perceive the cause-effect relations, is aimed. This strategy renders the user-designer relation cyclical.

A few of Zemberek Design’s most distinguished initiatives embrace:

VIGOSS Textile – Showroom and Design Workplace , İstanbul, Turkey
Grandma Bakery Cafe, Istanbul, Turkey
V Manufacturing unit Export Division, Istanbul, Turkey
Skechers TR-Efficiency Showroom, Istanbul, Turkey
Gün+Companions Ankara Workplace, Ankara, Turkey

The next statistics helped Zemberek Design obtain eighth place within the 25 Greatest Structure Companies in Turkey:

7. Erginoğlu & Çalışlar

Erginoğlu & Çalışlar Architects is an Istanbul based mostly, impartial agency of architects based in 1993 by Hasan Çalışlar and Kerem Erginoğlu. The agency focuses on city planning, structure and inside design initiatives along with offering help for planning functions. The ethos of the corporate is to view every challenge inside its particular person context and contribute to it by way of modern architectural options. The agency has huge expertise gained by way of profitable completion of all kinds of each nationwide and worldwide initiatives on a variety of scales.

Erginoğlu& Çalışlar Architects have received many prizes and awards for his or her modern initiatives.

A few of Erginoğlu & Çalışlar’s most distinguished initiatives embrace:

Yemeksepeti.com Workplace, İstanbul, Turkey
Sahibinden.com, Kadıköy, İstanbul, Turkey
Gaziantep Prime Mall Buying Middle , Gaziantep, Turkey
ITU Cyprus College Campus, Polatpaşa Bulvarı, Gazimağusa
Varyap Gross sales Workplace, İstanbul, Turkey

The next statistics helped Erginoğlu & Çalışlar obtain seventh place within the 25 Greatest Structure Companies in Turkey:

6. AVCI Architects

Selcuk Avci and Sanja Jurca Avci established Avci Architects in London in 1989 and Istanbul. In its first 12 months, the observe received the highest prize within the European Union biannual Vitality Environment friendly Buildings Competitors, a end result of years of expertise in sustainability which set the tone for the route of the observe. Though the observe focuses on many sectors when it comes to programme, sustainability has change into an underlying driving ethos, from the dimensions of regional masterplanning all the way down to the design of a single product.

Avci Architects has designed initiatives within the UK in addition to Italy, Hungary, Saudi Arabia, Ghana, Serbia, Czech Republic, Slovenia and extra not too long ago in Turkey.

A few of AVCI Architects’ most distinguished initiatives embrace:

The next statistics helped AVCI Architects obtain sixth place within the 25 Greatest Structure Companies in Turkey:

5. Adnan Kazmaoğlu Mimarlık Araştırma Merkezi

(MAM) Mimarlık Araştırma Merkezi has been engaged on architectural design, city design, landscaping, challenge growth and consulting branches. Mimarlık Araştırma Merkezi is engaged in numerous vary of initiatives; housing settlements, residences, workplace buildings, purchasing facilities, inns, tourism & recreation amenities, spiritual buildings, tradition & leisure facilities and sports activities complexes.

Adnan Kazmaoğlu, M.Arch, 1948, Akhisar-Turkey was born in Akhisar, Manisa in 1948. Graduated from Mimar Sinan Effective Arts College (IDGSA) School of Structure in 1975. In between 1975-1980, he labored as an teacher at Yıldız Technical College School of Structure, Division of Metropolis and Regional Planning. Labored in initiatives on regional planning and concrete design on the circulating capital group of the division.

A few of Adnan Kazmaoğlu Mimarlık Araştırma Merkezi’s most distinguished initiatives embrace:

The next statistics helped Adnan Kazmaoğlu Mimarlık Araştırma Merkezi obtain fifth place within the 25 Greatest Structure Companies in Turkey:

4. Kreatif Architects

Kreatif Architects is an Istanbul based mostly architectural workplace based in 1995 by architects Selim Cengic, Aydan Volkan and civil engineer Mehmet Cengic. Kreatif had accomplished many nationwide and worldwide initiatives by combining city planning, architectural design, inside design and engineering elements as an entire understanding. Working internationally on healthcare, instructional, hospitality, business and residential initiatives, Kreatif Architects has accomplished over 1,250,000 sq. meters of design, execution, building and coordination work. Our imaginative and prescient of fine design is offering, useful, sustainable, environment friendly options in a way of mixing inspiration and information with creativity.

A few of Kreatif Architects’ most distinguished initiatives embrace:

LA Vineyard, İzmir, Turkey
Avantgarde Assortment Taksim Sq. Resort, İstanbul, Turkey
Piri Reis Maritime College, İstanbul, Turkey
Koc College Medical Sciences Campus, Istanbul, Turkey
MAPFRE Insurance coverage Constructing Advanced, İstanbul, Turkey

The next statistics helped Kreatif Architects obtain 4th place within the 25 Greatest Structure Companies in Turkey:

3. Yazgan Design Structure

Yazgan Design Structure is an Ankara based mostly architectural design and building agency based by Kerem Yazgan and Begüm Yazgan, each PhD. architects, in 2003. Because the time of its basis, the corporate has designed and developed many architectural, inside design and panorama initiatives totaling greater than 86 million sq. toes (8 million sq. meters).

Challenge places embrace a variety of nations, resembling Turkey, Northern Cyprus, Russia, Kazakhstan, Libya, United Arab Emirates, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Iraq and Ghana. Yazgan Design works on initiatives of various packages and scales overlaying idea, design growth and building phases. The corporate portfolio consists of: mixed-use buildings, retail, resort, residential, workplace, instructional buildings, hospitals, cultural facilities, airports, sport complexes, together with panorama design, inside design and graphic design initiatives.

A few of Yazgan Design Structure’s most distinguished initiatives embrace:

OIZ Workplace, Ankara, Turkey
Kalkan Altes Villas, Antalya, Turkey
Center East Technical College Coworking & Cafeteria, Ankara, Turkey
Voronet Lila Resort, Suceava, Romania
YDA Middle, Ankara, Türkiye

The next statistics helped Yazgan Design Structure obtain third place within the 25 Greatest Structure Companies in Turkey:

2. superspace

superspace is an award-winning structure observe based mostly in Istanbul that designs distinctive modern areas and locations that form the long run. We’re a research-driven, and enthusiastic group that believes within the energy of design, artwork and play to counterpoint the expertise of our lives. We’re concerned in numerous cultures, exploring the human situation, within the context of potentials, possibilities and potentialities of distinct residing kinds.

A few of superspace’s most distinguished initiatives embrace:

taksim for all, İstanbul, Turkey
nyc farmy, New York Metropolis, New York
Ascension, Zagreb, Croatia
turku wave, Turku, Finland
peak, İstanbul, Turkey

The next statistics helped superspace obtain 2nd place within the 25 Greatest Structure Companies in Turkey:

1. Tabanlioglu Architects

Tabanlioglu Architects develop modern, but environment friendly and economically viable design alternate options, contemplating the distinctiveness of the place and the individuality of necessities.  The observe focuses on the issues of constructing in world phrases; but for the achievement of finest design high quality the architects consider the expressions of every nation, area and zone, distinctively. Each location gives particular conveniences or engenders challenges that require particular options.

A few of Tabanlioglu Architects’s most distinguished initiatives embrace:

The next statistics helped Tabanlioglu Architects obtain 1st place within the 25 Greatest Structure Companies in Turkey:

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A Information to Challenge Awards

The blue “+” badge denotes {that a} challenge has received a prestigious A+Award as described above. Hovering over the badge reveals particulars of the award, together with award class, 12 months, and whether or not the challenge received the jury or common selection award.

The orange Challenge of the Day and yellow Featured Challenge badges are awarded by Architizer’s Editorial group, and are chosen based mostly on numerous elements. The next elements enhance a challenge’s probability of being featured or awarded Challenge of the Day standing:

Challenge accomplished inside the final 3 years
A properly written, concise challenge description of no less than 3 paragraphs
Architectural design with a excessive stage of each useful and aesthetic worth
Prime quality, in focus images
At the very least 8 images of each the inside and exterior of the constructing
Inclusion of architectural drawings and renderings
Inclusion of building images

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