New $2.6 Billion Financial Center Will Make Wall Street Look Pathetic

via HOK

If you go anywhere in Europe, the one country everyone says to watch out for is Turkey. And the country's largest city, Istanbul, is one of the hottest cities in the world.

The country is incredibly ambitious.

It wants to make its economy one of the 10 largest by 2023. To achieve that goal, it's going to build a brand new financial center.

Architecture firm HOK has just unveiled the master plan it developed for the Istanbul International Financial Center (IIFC).

The renderings for the $2.6 billion project are beautiful. The project is scheduled for completion at the end of 2016, HOK said in a release.

We've included the images in the slides that follow.