Baku Funicular
A short mountain railway from the boulevard up to the Alley of Martyrs — the city's simplest lift since 1960.
funikulyor.tut.az
Place
Heydar Aliyev Center
Zaha Hadid's building flows like a wave — a lesson in architecture without right angles.
Go to the site
heydar-aliyev-merkezi.tut.az
A separate third-level domain with its own design
in progress The site is in progress. The domain is reserved; design and texts are under way.
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
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Form
How the curved surfaces were engineered
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Museum
The permanent display and exhibitions
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03
Park
The plaza and sculptures around it
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04
Zaha Hadid
The architect's style and other work
Related sites
Maiden Tower
Baku's emblem: an eight-tier stone cylinder and the questions nobody has settled.
qiz-qalasi.tut.az
Formula 1
A Grand Prix on Baku's streets: six kilometres of track, a squeeze along the fortress wall and record speed.
formula1.tut.az