Heydar Aliyev Center Architecture

Heydar Aliyev Center flows with no sharp angles or corners.

The Heydar Aliyev Center stands in Baku, Azerbaijan's capital.

Zaha Hadid won the 2007 competition to design the Center.

The Center covers 57,500 square meters across eight floors.

The Center has eight floors with many public spaces inside.

The building includes a 1,000-seat auditorium for concerts and talks.

The Center holds galleries, a museum, workshops, and exhibition halls.

The Center hosted Warhol's Life Death and Beauty featuring one hundred artworks.

Tahir Salahov’s 100-plus works showed at the Center in 2013.

Heydar Aliyev Center shapes the intellectual and cultural life of Baku.