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In May 2012, a futuristic building, looking very much like a flying saucer, became part of Tbilisi’s cityscape

The building houses Tbilisi’s Emergencies Control Center and unifies control of fire, rescue, medical emergency and patrolling services Author: D. Gogiashvili

MIA Emergencies Control Center

MIA Emergencies

Control Center

Panacea from emergency - it really looks like a big tablet, though in the evening it reminds a flying saucer, which has parked on the shore

MIA Emergencies Control Center Author: D. Gogiashvili

Modern Georgia is constructed from glass. They say that material was doubly successful: in addition to high technology, it blends harmoniously with the general line of the client architecture of the new wave, symbolizing the transparency of the state institutions

The number of reactionary oppositionists to such buildings’ policy is not small, but even they note that craving for crystal purity in terms of construction has added a couple of highlights to the city

The Baratashvili Bridge decorated by Georgi Japaridze with bronze figures of couples in love and Tbilisi's Public Service Hall is in the background of the photo

Named the Tbilisi Public Service Hall, the building houses an assortment of government organizations that include the National Bank of Georgia, the Ministry of Energy and the Civil and National Registry Agency

There's no additional roof over this hall, creating a 35-metre-

high space beneath the shelter of canopy

structures where customers can obtain passports, marriage registration, and other permits

and documents

The Baratashvili Bridge decorated by Georgi Japaridze with bronze figures

The architects (Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas) compare these structures to trees, and refer to their curved uppers as "petals" or "leaves”. Different departments are contained inside each of the seven perimeter blocks and a series of bridges connect them at the upper levels

The building is made up of 7 volumes that contain offices (each volume is made up of 4 floors located on different levels). These volumes are placed around a "central public square", which is the core of the project, where there is the front office services

Offices are connected to each other by

internal footbridges that

stretches on different levels

The "central public square” where there is the front office

services

Among the “petals”, that are

at different levels, are the glass

facades

The main characteristic of these facades is that these have been released

completely from the structure of

the petals, allowing relative

movements between the

facade and the spatial network

structure of coverage

This decision was taken to prevent

that any movement of the cover, mainly due to oscillations for snow loads, wind

or thermal expansion, can lead to the crisis

of the glass

The Tbilisi Public Service

Hall  by Massimiliano and Doriana

Fuksas. People call it ”mushrooms

Building”

The Tbilisi Public Service Hall is situated in the central area of the city and it overlooks the Kura river

Case Centre for the National Bank of Georgia

Case Centre for the National Bank of Georgia

Case Centre for the National Bank of Georgia

Institute of Botany and Herbarium in Botanical Garden

Institute of Botany and Herbarium in Botanical GardenSince the medieval centuries the royal gardens were developed on this place, but after the Russian occupation the garden came under the possession of the state, the botanical garden was named in 1845 when it was officially opened

Institute of Botany and Herbarium in Botanical Garden

Ministry of Justice Headquarters Designed by Architectural

Group & Partners

Ministry of Justice Headquarters Designed by Architectural

Group & Partners

Ministry of Justice Headquarters Designed by

Architectural Group & Partners was

nominated for the International

Architectural Award in 2011

Hotel Golden Palace

Hotel Golden Palace

Hotel Radisson

Hotels & Preference Hualing Tbilisi

The residence and trade center owned by the Georgian tycoon Boris (Bidzina) Ivanishvili in TbilisiBidzina Ivanishvili lives in a house in the hills of Tbilisi which was specially designed for him by the famous Russian architect Mikhail Khazanov and finished by well known Japanese interior architect Shin Takamatsu which is worth an estimated $50 million

Bidzina Ivanishvili (also known as Boris Ivanishvili; born 1956) is a Georgian businessman and politician who was Prime Minister of Georgia from 25 October 2012 to 20 November 2013

In March 2012, he ranked 153 in the 2012 Forbes List with a reported net worth of 6.4 billion USD; The richest man in Georgia (he's worth half the

country's GDP) 

In March 2010, Ivanishvili was granted French citizenship. In October 2011, he was deprived of his Georgian citizenship "according to Article 32 of the Georgian Law on Citizenship”

Zemo Betlemi & Kvemo Betlemi churches, Tbilisi

Damien Hirst artworks on display in Mr Ivanishvili's collection

A 1915 piece by Egon Schiele hangs on the wall of Bidzina Ivanishvili' office at his Tbilisi business center/residence. Ivanishvili, a self-made billionaire, is building a collection of modern art for a museum he plans to build in the capital

Work by modern artists Damien Hirst adorns the walls at Bidzina Ivanishvili's business center/residence in Tbilisi. The self-made billionaire plans to open a public, world-class modern art museum in Tbilisi

The “LOVE Sculpture” by Robert Indiana

The residence and trade center

owned by the Georgian Boris

(Bidzina) Ivanishvili in

Tbilisi

The 10,000 sq m grounds

include a glass tower housing a

circular swimming poolA giant rotating

steel ball containing a

private café is suspended

above the pool

Bidzina Ivanishvili, an art collector with plans to build a world-class art museum in Tbilisi, hired Japanese architect Shin Takamatsu to design his contemporary Tbilisi residence overlooking the capital, and has purchased sculpture and paintings from Peter Doig, Frida Kahlo, Damien Hirst, Anish Kapoor, Roy Lichtenstein and other well known names over the past several years. He plans on investing "hundreds of millions" of dollars in the project

Bidzina Ivanishvili and his 'Interior with Red Wall' by Roy Lichtenstein. It's a fake. The real one was moved to London several months ago for security reasons

Image: Daro Sulakauri / Getty Images For Forbes

Bidzina Ivanishvili, an art collector with plans to build a world-class art museum in Tbilisi: a “large” plot of land for the museum, next to Tbilisi’s Georgian National Art Museum, has already been purchased

The reclusive billionaire Bidzina

Ivanishvili has built a modern-

day palace overlooking the Georgian capital

Tbilisi

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