Architecture in Baku

Zaha Hadid Architects, completed in 2012: one continuous white surface rising from the plaza into the roof with no hard edge. Walk all the way round before going in; the shell is a lesson in how a fold becomes a building.

Three curved glass towers of 2007–2013 above the bay, covered in LEDs that turn them into flames after dark.

A building shaped like a rolled carpet on the Boulevard, holding one of the world’s great carpet collections, with weaving demonstrations.