{"id":82093,"date":"2013-10-13T10:11:59","date_gmt":"2013-10-13T07:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=82093"},"modified":"2014-01-08T15:30:33","modified_gmt":"2014-01-08T13:30:33","slug":"norwegian-firm-to-design-istanbuls-new-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2013\/10\/13\/norwegian-firm-to-design-istanbuls-new-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"Norwegian firm to design Istanbul\u2019s new airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Norwegian firm to design Istanbul\u2019s new airport<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_82095\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-82095\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-82095\" alt=\"Istanbul Ataturk Airport\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Istanbul-Ataturk.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Istanbul-Ataturk.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Istanbul-Ataturk-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-82095\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Istanbul Ataturk Airport<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Oslo-based architecture firm Nordic Office of Architecture has won an international competition to design what\u2019s expected to become the world\u2019s largest airport, in Istanbul. Gudmund Stokke, partner and manager of the firm, called it \u201ca bit of a dream to land in this position.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The firm, formerly known as Narud Stokke Wiig Architects and Planners, joined with the British Grimshaw firm to beat out eight other contenders for the job. Nordic Office specializes in designing modern airports and was behind Oslo\u2019s main airport at Gardermoen and its current expansion project, the Rajiv Gandhi Airport in Hyderabad, India, the Hanimaadhoo Airport in the Maldives and several in the Arctic areas of Norway.<\/p>\n<p>The new airport in Istanbul will be designed to accommodate 90 million passengers a year, and 150 million within 10 years. Its first phase is due to open in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The project will also be the largest in Turkish history, opening with three runways and a terminal covering a million square meters. It aims to become a major hub, with Nordic Office in charge of the master plan and design. Stokke wouldn\u2019t reveal the value of the contract.<\/p>\n<p>newsinenglish.no staff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norwegian firm to design Istanbul\u2019s new airport The Oslo-based architecture firm Nordic Office of Architecture has won an international competition to design what\u2019s expected to become the world\u2019s largest airport, in Istanbul. Gudmund Stokke, partner and manager of the firm, called it \u201ca bit of a dream to land in this position.\u201d The firm, formerly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":82095,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[846,284],"tags":[4609],"class_list":["post-82093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-norway","tag-third-istanbul-airport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82093","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=82093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}