{"id":144004,"date":"2011-11-24T14:03:11","date_gmt":"2011-11-24T10:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=144004"},"modified":"2011-11-24T14:03:11","modified_gmt":"2011-11-24T10:03:11","slug":"half-moon-hotel-shows-bakus-stellar-architectural-ambitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/11\/24\/half-moon-hotel-shows-bakus-stellar-architectural-ambitions.html","title":{"rendered":"Half Moon Hotel Shows Baku&#8217;s Stellar Architectural Ambitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Azerbaijan&#8217;s capital Baku might have an ancient heart, but it is getting a remarkable modern face.<\/p>\n<p>Funded largely by money from oil and gas exports, the city has become one of the most vibrant places on the planet for grand designs, with numerous head-turning projects towering above low-rise Soviet-era apartments and medieval walled city, <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2011\/11\/16\/world\/azerbaijan-architecture\/?hpt=ieu_t2\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">CNN<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span> reports.<\/p>\n<p>Across the country improvements are being made in infrastructure. Within five years in Baku more roads, new parks, a new transit system, water supplies and internet connections will all be in place.<\/p>\n<p>Already dominating the skyline are the iconic Flame Towers that are close to completion, plus the Baku TV Tower. Joining these soaring landmarks are some even more eye-popping structures; the towers of Crescent Place and the Hotel Crescent, designed by South Korean architecture firm, Heerim Architects and Planners.<\/p>\n<p>When completed in 2015, Hotel Crescent will stand on the banks of the Caspian Sea, its 33-stories housed in a vast, down-turned crescent. A sister project was proposed called the Full Moon Hotel that would have brought something resembling the Death Star from &#8220;Star Wars&#8221; to the Caspian coastline.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When completed in 2015, Hotel Crescent will stand on the banks of the Caspian Sea, its 33-stories housed in a vast, down-turned crescent. <!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":140965,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[10265,10672,35027,35026,35030,35029,35028],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144004"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}