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

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

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MIA Emergencies Control
Center

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MIA
Emergencies
Control Center

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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

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MIA Emergencies Control Center
Author: D. Gogiashvili

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Offices are
connected to
each other by
internal
footbridges that
stretches on

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

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Among the
“petals”, that are
at different levels,
are the glass
facades

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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

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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

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The Tbilisi
Public Service
Hall by
Massimiliano
and Doriana
Fuksas.
People call it
”mushrooms
Building”

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

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Case Centre for
the National Bank
of Georgia

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Case Centre for
the National Bank
of Georgia

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Case Centre for
the National Bank
of Georgia

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Institute of Botany and Herbarium in Botanical Garden

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Institute of Botany and Herbarium in Botanical Garden
Since 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

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Institute of Botany and Herbarium in Botanical Garden

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Ministry of Justice
Headquarters
Designed by
Architectural
Group & Partners

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Ministry of Justice
Headquarters
Designed by
Architectural
Group & Partners

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Ministry of Justice
Headquarters
Designed by
Architectural Group &
Partners was
nominated for the
International
Architectural Award in

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Hotel Golden Palace

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Hotel Golden Palace
Hotel Radisson
Hotels & Preference Hualing Tbilisi

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The residence and trade center owned by the Georgian tycoon Boris (Bidzina) Ivanishvili in Tbilisi
Bidzina 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

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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

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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)

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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

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Damien Hirst
artworks on
display in Mr
Ivanishvili's
collection

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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

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The “LOVE Sculpture”
by Robert Indiana

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The residence
and trade center
owned by the
Georgian Boris
(Bidzina)
Ivanishvili in
Tbilisi

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The 10,000 sq
m grounds
include a glass
tower housing a
circular
swimming pool
A giant rotating
steel ball
containing a
private café is
suspended
above the pool

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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

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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

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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

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The reclusive
billionaire Bidzina
Ivanishvili has
built a modern-
day palace
overlooking the
Georgian capital
Tbilisi

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