From the city's medieval sandstone nucleus to the glass skyscrapers of its most recent oil boom, Baku reveals its long history at the crossroads of East and West through its architecture.

Love them or loathe them, the results of this facelift have made Baku the talk of the international architectural community. The late Heydar Aliyev, the country’s controversial president ...

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As the architectural landscape continues to evolve in response to pressing global challenges, events such as biennales, design weeks, and fairs play an instrumental role in shaping the profession ...

For more than 70 years, up until 1991, Baku bent to the will of the USSR. The past decade, meanwhile, has seen a wealth of new hotels, architectural marvels and shopping complexes, all integral to ...

As a group of feted Japanese architects currently take issue with what they consider to be the inappropriate scale of Zaha Hadid's stadium for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, in the context of its daintier ...

Those early 90-degree turns (and heavy braking zones) take the drivers past some modern architecture, starkly contrasting the tight, walled streets in the Old City portion of Sector 2. Baku is the ...