Death Star Hotel e Moon Rising Hotel Skyscrapers to Rise Over Baku, Azerbaijan Skyline

Heerim Architects has attempted to reinvent the skyscraper beyond the traditional with two lunar inspired projects in the central Asian republic of Azerbaijan. The Korean firm has dreamed up Full Moon Bay and Caspian Plus that includes Crescent Place on neighbouring peninsulas in the Azerbaijani capital of Baku that look on to the Caspian Sea - the two projects on opposite extremes of the same bay acting as gateway markers. Hotel Full Moon is essentially a disc with rounded edges and a hole in one of