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Flame Towers

Field	Value
name	Flame Towers
native_name	Alov qüllələri
native_name_lang	az
image	[[File:Flame towers baku.jpg	250px]]
location	Baku, Azerbaijan
status	Complete (MOO)
start_date	October 2007
opening	2013
building_type	office, residential, hotel, shopping mall
roof	182 m - Flame Tower 1
165 m - Flame Tower 2
161 m - Flame Tower 3
floor_count	33/30/28
architectural_style	Highrise, glass
owner	Azinko Development MMC
main_contractor	DIA Holding Azerbaijan
architect	HOK
structural_engineer	Balkar Mühendislik
cost	US$350 million
website

165 m - Flame Tower 2 161 m - Flame Tower 3 The Flame Towers () are a group of three skyscrapers in Baku, Azerbaijan. The main contractor, Dia Holdings, is owned by two brothers who are linked to Azerbaijan's ruling Aliyev family's network of offshore companies.

The height of the tallest tower is 182 m. The three flame-shaped towers are intended to symbolize the elements of fire, and are a reference to Azerbaijan's nickname "The Land of Fire", historically rooted in a region where natural gas flares emit from the ground and Zoroastrian worshipers considered flames to be a symbol of the divine (notably at the Ateshgah of Baku and Yanar Dag).

The three buildings (South, East and West) consist of 130 residential apartments over 33 floors, a Fairmont hotel tower that includes 250 rooms and 61 serviced apartments, and office blocks which provides a net 33,114 square meters of office space.

Construction

The cost of Flame Towers was an estimated US$350 million. Construction began in 2007, with completion in 2012. HOK was the architect for the project, DIA Holdings served as the design-build contractor, and Hill International provided project management.

Illumination

The Flame Towers are completely covered with LED screens that display the movement of a fire, visible from the furthest points of the city. The facades of the three Flame Towers function as large display screens with the use of more than 10,000 high-power LED luminaires, supplied by the Osram subsidiary Traxon Technologies and Vetas Electric Lighting. The light show transitions from giant flames, the colours of the Azerbaijani flag, a figure waving a flag, and huge tanks of water being filled. Transition times are roughly two minutes.

In culture

The buildings are featured in Extreme Engineering, a documentary television series that airs on the Discovery Channel and the Science Channel. The episode called "Azerbaijan's Amazing Transformation" was broadcast on 22 April 2011 as part of Season 9.

The Flame Towers also appeared prominently in trailers before many entries for the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 hosted in Baku (and, in the next 4 years, with the pre song trailer based in the singer's home area, features in the trailer before the Azerbaijan song).

The towers are also a prominent landmark in the video game Battlefield 4, with the first level of the single player campaign taking place in Baku. Additionally, the towers were often shown during coverage of the initial Formula One European Grand Prix held in Baku.

Criticism

A peer-reviewed publication in 2020 noted the Flame Towers "...are something of a Potemkin edifice in that one of the towers houses a Fairmont Hotel while the other two are unoccupied."

Gallery

File:Flame Towers in Baku 2017.jpg File:Flame Towers (July 2012).jpg File:Panorama of night Baku, Azerbaijan IMG 9682.jpg File:2013 10 Baku DSC00132.jpg File:20160604 Azerbaijan 6855 Baku sRGB.jpg File:Baku Botanical Garden 19.jpg File:Coat_of_arms_of_Baku.svg

References

"Flame Tower 1, Baku | 284968 | EMPORIS".
"Flame Tower 2, Baku | 327845 | EMPORIS".
"Flame Tower 3, Baku | 327846 | EMPORIS".
Candea, Stefan. (2013-04-04). "Offshore Companies Link Corporate Mogul, Azerbaijan's President". Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
There are some taller [[List of tallest buildings in Azerbaijan. towers]] in Baku, but they do not have rooms inside all the way up, so are not considered skyscrapers.
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"Baku to open Flame Tower". trend.az.
HOK. (2014-09-29). "Baku Flame Towers".
"Vetaş-Led, Led Aydınlatma, Alternatif Aydınlatma, Aydınlatma Sistemleri, Led Lighting, Alternative Lighting, Lighting Systems".
(Aug 26, 2012). "Flame Towers - Baku, Azerbaijan".
Dolan, Timothy E.. (2020-09-01). "When the Wells Run Dry: Reimagining Azerbaijan's Post-Oil Futures". World Futures Review.

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