Most interesting thing I have done as a Local Guide.
My hometown Baku, Azerbaijan is a big city. It is both traditional and modern because of having several festivals celebrated by the locals, and at the same time it is starting to be developed with increasing number of infrastructues and establishments. I was born and raised there and I can say it is definitely my favorite place**.**
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Among all the places I have been to, I think Baku is one of the best. There are wonderful places to visit – not crowded and not polluted. I frequently go to beautiful and clean beaches. Baku is located on Absheron peninsular that is very peaceful and relaxing to stay in. On top of that, natural volcanoes and natural ground gas’s flames are popular here as well. Many people visit this places to experience them.
Involving to the Local Guides program helps me to explore in detail many places, buildings and historical monuments etc. etc in Baku. For example, below I would like to share following data for all stakeholders and colleagues:
Flame Towers (in Azerbaijani: Alov qüllələri) is a trio of skyscrapers in Baku, Azerbaijan, the height of the tallest tower is 182 m (597 ft). Towers representing flames symbolize fire. The buildings consist of 130 residential apartments over 33 floors, a Fairmont hotel tower that consists of 250 rooms and 61 serviced apartments, and office blocks that provides a net 33,114 square meters of office space. 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.
HOK, formerly Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum, is an American worldwide design, architecture, engineering and urban planning firm, founded in 1955.
As of 2018, HOK is the largest U.S.-based architecture-engineering firm and the fourth-largest interior design firm. The firm maintains more than 1,700 professional staff across a global network of 24 offices and is active in all major architectural specialties. Its senior leaders are located in several different locations across the world.
The Flame Towers consist of three buildings: South, East and West. The facades of the three Flame Towers function as large display screens with the use of more than 10,000 high-power LED luminaries, supplied by the Osram subsidiary Traxon Technologies and Vetas Electric Lighting.
On June 2014 Lamborghini opened its first branch in Azerbaijan, located on the ground floor of the East tower of the Flame Towers.https://youtu.be/6_Eit4h04T0