A clay model of the Heydar Aliyev Center, rendered in Rosé Pine red on a dark background
A site model of the Heydar Aliyev Center in its neighbourhood: the landmark in Rosé Pine red among grey buildings, with its water in blue

Beside it, its neighbourhood: buildings and water from OpenStreetMap, the ground from the map's terrain tiles.

Baku · Azerbaijan

Heydar Aliyev Center

74 metres · 243 feet

See its ground on the live map →
Height
74 m243 ft
Completed
2012
By
Zaha Hadid
Coordinates
40° 23′ 46″ N49° 52′ 04″ E · 40.3961, 49.8679

One continuous white surface rising from the ground into three waves, its front edge lifting clear over a glass wall.

Modelled from simple shapes at roughly its true size, and rendered in clay. The map draws the rest the one way it draws everything: the ground under Baku, as contour lines coloured by height, with its water and its names.

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