Istanbul Airport opened in stages beginning in October 2018 and took over all scheduled commercial flights from the city's older Ataturk Airport in April 2019, built on a site northwest of the city as Turkey's new principal international gateway. Its main terminal building, designed by an international team including Grimshaw Architects, Nordic Office of Architecture and Haptic Architects with Scott Brownrigg as lead delivery architect, covers roughly 1.44 million square meters, making it one of the largest single airport terminal buildings in the world. The terminal is organized around five connected concourses served by more than 140 passenger boarding bridges, built to accommodate one of the highest passenger capacities of any airport once fully phased in. The airport's scale and its ambition to become a major hub between Europe and Asia have made it a centerpiece of recent large-scale infrastructure building in Turkey.
Facts
Building Type LocationArnavutkoy district, Istanbul, Turkey 1 Completed YearSourced to the subject's own account Classification
Standing Status Building Type
Building Type (category)Transport Terminal (Airport, Ferry, etc.) 1 Connections
Has Building Type
Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.
In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: Turkey, located there.
Sources
1. Istanbul Airport, Wikipedia
Lead paragraph
Istanbul Airport (IATA: IST, ICAO: LTFM) is the larger of two international airports serving Istanbul, Turkey.
Lead paragraph, second sentence
It is located in the Arnavutköy district on the European side of the city.
- infobox building_type/type field: Public
Entity description and the lead/infobox of the Wikipedia article
Istanbul Airport (IATA: IST, ICAO: LTFM) is the larger of two international airports serving Istanbul, Turkey. It is located in the Arnavutköy district on the European side of the city. It is the largest airport in Turkey, the largest privately-owned airport operation in the world, and one of the busiest airports in Europe.
All scheduled commercial passenger flights were transferred from Atatürk Airport to Istanbul Airport on 6 April 2019, following the closure of Atatürk Airport for scheduled p
View the Source2. Istanbul Airport (Wikidata)
Wikimedia FoundationWikidata date-of-opening/inception statement (2018)Quote, Wikidata date-of-opening/inception statement (2018)
Wikidata item Q3661908, property P1619: 2018
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