Istanbul New Airport’s air traffic control tower was inspired by a tulip.
▻http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_eye/2016/01/07/istanbul_new_airport_s_air_traffic_control_tower_was_inspired_by_a_tulip.html
The world might associate tulips with the Dutch, but tulips “have been associated with Istanbul for centuries and represented a significant cultural reference in Turkish history,” according to a press release from İGA, a group founded in 2013 to manage the massive 25-year construction of the Istanbul New Airport. (Turkish Airlines planes include a faint gray image of a tulip on the fuselage.) When completed, the airport is expected to serve up to 200 million passengers per year.
