The master plan of Baku White City ( az, Bakı Ağ Şəhər ) refers to the re-development of a portion of
Black City, 221-hectare land area, conceptualized to be part of the 2021 strategic plan for
Baku.
Development
The project has been designed by
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and
Foster and Partners
Foster + Partners is a British architectural, engineering, and integrated design practice founded in 1967 as Foster Associates by Norman Foster. It is the largest architectural firm in the UK with over 1,500 employees in 13 studios worldwide ...
. Around 75 per cent of the project will be residential units, creating a new community of 19,700 households for about 50,000 people as well as commercial and leisure units that will provide up to 48,000 jobs. The project was completed in 2022.
In 2014, the
Lycée français de Bakou (Baku French Lyceum) located in White City was inaugurated by President
Ilham Aliyev. In 2015, the eastern part of the
Baku Boulevard
Baku Boulevard ( az, Dənizkənarı Milli Park, also known as National Park) is a promenade established in 1909 which runs parallel to Baku's seafront. Its history goes back more than 100 years, to a time when Baku oil barons built their mansion ...
, the city's seaside promenade, was extended by two kilometers to cover the coastal part of White City, which also became the site of the newly built Boulevard Hotel Baku.
Opening ceremony
The opening ceremony of Baku White City took place on 24 December 2011. President Aliyev and his wife
Mehriban Aliyeva
Mehriban Arif gizi Aliyeva (; az, Mehriban Arif qızı Əliyeva Paşayeva, ; born 26 August 1964) is an Azerbaijani politician and physician who is the vice president and First Lady of Azerbaijan.
She is married to Ilham Aliyev, the president o ...
attended an opening ceremony of Baku White City project.
n 26 December 2016. The vice president and the head of state observed the first settlements on Green Island. They also laid the foundation stone for Fountains Square park, a pedestrian passage and a public parking complex.
Baku White City Office Building
In 2015, the Baku White City Office Building became the first property in Azerbaijan to be awarded
BREEAM
BREEAM (Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method), first published by the Building Research Establishment (BRE) in 1990, is the world's longest established method of assessing, rating, and certifying the sustainability of ...
certification on international ecological standards with the rating of Good.
Baku White City office building gets international ‘green’ certificate BREEAM
Azerbaijan Business Centre. 8 January 2015.
Gallery
File:Groundbreaking ceremony of Baku White City.jpg, President Ilham Aliyev at the goundbreaking ceremony of Baku White City
File:Парижские дома..jpg, Buildings in Green Island
File:Neo-haussmannien-Bakou ville blanche.jpg, A revivalist-style White City residential building in construction
External links
Official websiteMap of BWC
References
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Buildings and structures under construction in Baku
Buildings and structures in Baku
Populated places in Baku
Urban planning in Azerbaijan
Tourist attractions in Baku
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