Empty Baku

Baku has done plenty of building and urban renewal to remake itself as a modern, architecturally significant world city. Sometimes your master plan starts with a big layout and then you let the buildings fill in during the next decade or so. That empty, public space can have an interesting life of its own.

Big promenade on the Caspian Sea.

Parking lot with weakly disguised construction fence. Promoting the future park. Construction. Building up.

Graphic. Explosive. A picture along the fence line of an open air military equipment museum.

Approaches. To the Crystal Hall and a pier in the promenade.

The future meeting the distant present. The iconic Flame Towers in the background, ribbon of promenade waiting for development in the foreground.