{"id":67721,"date":"2013-03-14T09:34:50","date_gmt":"2013-03-14T07:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=67721"},"modified":"2016-12-28T16:03:58","modified_gmt":"2016-12-28T13:03:58","slug":"istanbuls-2-6bn-financial-centre-gets-underway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2013\/03\/14\/istanbuls-2-6bn-financial-centre-gets-underway\/","title":{"rendered":"Istanbul’s $2.6bn financial centre gets underway"},"content":{"rendered":"

Global design and planning firm HOK has announced that construction work has commenced on the $2.6bn Istanbul International Financial Centre (IIFC) project in Turkey.<\/h2>\n

\"istanbul-ifc\"Sprawling over a 170-acre site on the city’s Asian side, located between the Atasehir and \u00dcmraniye districts, the IIFC will house the head offices of the country’s financial market governing bodies, state-owned and private banks, and related businesses.<\/p>\n

The development includes approximately 4,180,000m2 of office, residential, hotel and park space, and will house four districts, focusing on culture, commerce, civic functions and governance.<\/p>\n

The project also includes a transportation system comprising a new rail station and subway line. Utilities and communications are being sustainably integrated into a podium that will be surfaced on top by a new urban park.<\/p>\n

The construction of the project is being undertaken by Turkish construction company Akdeniz Group, which has commenced the project with the start of excavation work at the site.<\/p>\n

The IIFC, also supported in the Arup in the planning phase, is due to come online by the end of 2016.<\/p>\n

via Istanbul’s $2.6bn financial centre gets underway | ConstructionWeekOnline.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Global design and planning firm HOK has announced that construction work has commenced on the $2.6bn Istanbul International Financial Centre (IIFC) project in Turkey. Sprawling over a 170-acre site on the city’s Asian side, located between the Atasehir and \u00dcmraniye districts, the IIFC will house the head offices of the country’s financial market governing bodies, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":67722,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[846],"tags":[4850],"class_list":["post-67721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-construction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}