Answer: Baku, Azerbaijan, where the government is spending an estimated $6 billion a year on architecture projects. As we wrote in February, Azerbaijan’s leaders want to make their capital city a destination for the rich and fabulous. The latest example: the Heydar Aliyev Center designed by Zaha Hadid, for whom it offered the rare opportunity of nearly total design freedom. Every roof and ceiling panel is different, Hadid says. — nytimes.com
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Hmmm. I dig that project, quite a bit.
Stairs to absolute power is very apparent on the other side, even though Iwan Baan's contextualizing image is quite beautiful.
I'm not generally a fan of Zaha's swoops, so I'm surprised that I like this one as much as I do. As FLW said, now I need to analyze and understand *why* this one leases me….
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