Key facts
- Status
- Complete (MOO)
- Type
- office , residential , hotel , shopping mall
- Architectural style
- Highrise , glass
- Location
- Baku , Azerbaijan
- Construction started
- October 2007
- Cost
- US$350 million
- Owner
- Azinko Development MMC
- Roof
- 182 m (597 ft) - Flame Tower 1 , 165 m (541 ft) - Flame Tower 2 , 161 m (528 ft) - Flame Tower 3
- Floor count
- 33/30/28
- Architect
- HOK
- Structural engineer
- Balkar Mühendislik
- Main contractor
- DIA Holding Azerbaijan
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- skyscraper
- Country
- Azerbaijan
- Located in
- Baku
- Area
- 234.5
- Image
- Flame towers baku.jpg
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- date of official opening
- 2013-00-00
- inception
- 2012-04-00
- Commons category
- Flame Towers
- architect
- HOK
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Encyclopedic overview
The Flame Towers (Azerbaijani: Alov qüllələri) 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 (597 ft). 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).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Flame Towers” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.