Full Moon Hotel

The Full Moon Hotel is an under construction building in Baku, Azerbaijan at Absheron Peninsula on the western shore of the Caspian Sea. Hotel Full Moon is essentially a disc with rounded edges and a hole in one of the top corners that appears radically different from the view depending on the angle it is seen from. The front appears more like a glass Death Star whilst the side profile does not feature any specialty and looks like an ordinary glass building . The Full Moon Hotel brings out more Dubaized style to Azerbaijan Hotels History

Changing appearance depending on the view is reinforced by the cladding treatment the architect has selected. The front will have a glass diagrid while the back will be covered with hexagonal honeycombs shaped windows.

This main building will be a 35 story luxury hotel with 104,182 square metres of space for only 382 rooms, a relatively small amount of rooms given the sheer size of the internal space on offer. It will reach a maximum height of 158.68 metres.

The hotel is linked via a zoomorphically shaped podium that snakes curvaceously around the boundaries of the site to two residential apartment blocks entitled Palace of Wind One and Palace of Wind Two.^[2]

Construction

The Construction of The Full Moon began in the late first quarter of 2008. The architect and engineering consultant for the project was Heerim Architects, one of South Korea's largest multidisciplinary consultancies. The hotel is being built by Azerbaijani construction contractors. The entire project, which includes the hotel itself and two skyscrapers, (Palace of Wind One and Palace of Wind Two) will approximately cost $250 million to build.^[1] Acting as the counterpoint to Hotel Full Moon will be the Hotel Crescent, part of the Caspian Plus redevelopment that stands as a curving arch similar to a crescent moon.^[1]

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