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Baku’s new business districts today has shifted around the Baku city center, with many high-tech buildings and postmodern architecture. Aside from buildings used for business and institutions, various new residential developments are currently underway, many of which consist of high-rise buildings with a glass exterior, surrounded by American ...
In the architecture of the Monolith, Brittanytsky emphasizes the rough heaviness of the lower tier, which is processed with decorative masonry of large rustic stones. Together with the developed cornice and vertical stripes of rustic materials at the corners of the building, this tier sets off, according to Brittany, the small scale of ...
The opening ceremony of Baku Olympic Stadium was held on March 6, 2015 and stadium is considered to hold major sport events in Azerbaijan. This multifunctional stadium is the largest stadium in Azerbaijan with total capacity of 68,700 seats for spectators. The Baku Olympic Stadium is chosen to be the 7th best stadium in the world by StadiumDB.
A. Agabala Guliyev's House; Athletes Village, Baku; Azerbaijan Customs History Museum; Azerbaijan Railway Museum; Azerbaijan State Academic National Drama Theatre
The House of Shamsi Asadullayev- also known as the Oil Baron's Palace, is a three-story palace-style residential building located in the capital city of Baku, Azerbaijan. It was constructed in 1896 based on the design by architect Johann Edel in response to a commission from Shamsi Asadullayev, one of the millionaires of Baku.
The stylistic features and the incomplete embroidery work date the Divanjan to the end of the fifteenth century when the Safavid armies took Baku. The clerical plan, the content of the inscription on the ground floor and entrance to the hall (Quran, verses 10, 26 and 27) show that it is a memorial place.
The three flame-shaped towers are intended to symbolize the elements of fire, and are a reference to Azerbaijan's nickname "The Land of Fire", historically rooted in a region where natural gas flares emit from the ground and Zoroastrian worshipers considered flames to be a symbol of the divine (notably at the Ateshgah of Baku and Yanar Dag).
The classic symmetric-axis facade is applied in the architectural composition of De Boure's palace. In Baku, the European classics were developing from the 1880s, and this was the direction of Baku artists' creativity. They used all possibilities of classics to disclose the artistic manifestations of the structure of the building. [6]