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Located in Baku’s planned cultural plaza district, the five-storey Heydar Aliyev Cultural Centre features a

conference hall, three auditoriums, a library and

a museum.

The Heydar Aliyev Center is a building complex in Baku, Azerbaijan designed by Iraqi-British architect Zaha Hadid and noted for its distinctive architecture and flowing, curved style that eschews sharp angles. The center is named for Heydar Aliyev, the leader of Soviet-era Azerbaijan from 1969 to 1982, and president of Azerbaijan from October 1993 to October 2003

One of the Laurence Jenkell‘s candy flag sculptures

The outdoors area is filled with gazelle sculptures that were painted by different artists from all around the world. It is quite interesting to see how the same form and surface can be transformed into something unique by touch of every artist

The building opened in May 2012 to mark

the 89th birthday of

Heydar Aliyev – the country’s

Soviet-era ruler who became its

president in 1993

The fluid, organic curves of this 100,000 sq m (120,000

sq yd) creation - the work of

leading London-based Iraqi-

British architect Zaha Hadid - is

a visual standout even in this city of

towering, landmark new-build projects

Heydar Aliyev, who died in 2003, chaired Azerbaijan’s KGB for more than 20 years and was blamed for human rights violations in the later years of his post-Soviet presidency by Amnesty International

On June 21, 2013, the Center held the opening of the exhibition

of works by American artist

Andy Warhol titled “Life, Death, and

Beauty” supervised by

Gianni Mercurio, dated for the

85th anniversary of the artist

The centre was designed to become a primary space for Azerbaijan’s cultural programs and events, and take a significant place in the urban landscape of modern Baku

The 1,000-seat auditorium in architect Zaha Hadid’s Heydar Aliyev Cultural Centre in Baku, echoes the building’s curvaceous exterior, but the use of backlit oak paneling bathes the room in a warm glow that contrasts with the stark white walls used throughout most of the complex.

Yayoi Kusama, an outstanding Japanese artist, an iconic figure in the global world of modern art

The Flowers that Blossom Tomorrow composition (2012) by Yayoi Kusama, an outstanding Japanese artist and a pop legend, is now on a permanent display at the Heydar Aliyev Center.

The artist’s Abstraction No.2 (1959) sold for 5,794,500 US dollars at Christie’s New York in 2008 to become the most expensive piece of modern art and the then record for a living female artist.

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Sound: Instrumental background music Azerbaijan Kurdish Farsi