Icherisheher
The old town inside Baku's fortress walls — its lanes, baths and caravanserais.
icherisheher.tut.az
Place
Heydar Aliyev Center
Zaha Hadid's building flows like a wave — a lesson in architecture without right angles.
Go to the siteheydar-aliyev-merkezi.tut.azA separate third-level domain with its own design
in progress
How it will look: each site gets its own colour scheme and structure.
In brief
The centre opened in 2012. Its white shell rises from the ground, becomes the roof and comes back down — there is barely a straight line in it.
Inside are a museum, exhibition halls and an auditorium. In 2014 the building won the Design of the Year award from London's Design Museum.
On the site
- 01FormHow the curved surfaces were engineered
- 02MuseumThe permanent display and exhibitions
- 03ParkThe plaza and sculptures around it
- 04Zaha HadidThe architect's style and other work
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Maiden Tower
Baku's emblem: an eight-tier stone cylinder and the questions nobody has settled.
qiz-qalasi.tut.az
Shirvanshahs' Palace
A 15th-century palace complex: divankhana, mosque, bathhouse and the rulers' tomb.
shirvanshahlar.tut.az