Gosstroy Residential Building
For Baku, sixteen stories were an absolute rarity, though with this building there were no prefabricated panels. The trapezoidal ground plan is unique for Baku. The architect Alexander Belokon was a graduate of the Moscow Institute of Architecture and is well-known for his idiosyncratic buildings, often made of an assembly of finished parts. Rasim Aliyev, the former city architect of Baku (from 1972 onwards) describes the construction phase between 1975 and 1985 as “Baku Modernism.” Excerpt from Heike Maria Johenning’s article in: SOS Brutalism: A Global Survey. Catalog DAM + Wüstenrot Foundation, Zurich (Park Books) 2017