Ministry of Taxes

We designed a new, 31-story mixed-use office tower for the Ministry of Taxation and Finance in Baku, Azerbaijan. The tower comprises five cube forms of varying size resting on a podium base that houses a 400-seat auditorium, a boardroom, a cafeteria, and a 60-foot-tall winter-garden space. Each volume is separated by green space—promoting access to the outdoors all the way up the tower. Optimizing solar orientation and views, the geometric forms gradually taper and rotate a total of 40 degrees from the base to the top. The 490,000-square-foot tower includes offices, a formal restaurant, and private one- and two-bedroom suites for visiting dignitaries. The tower is topped with a spectacular rooftop garden, affording dramatic views of the old city of Baku.