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Advanced Building Skins<br />

Figure 4: Large scale prototyping<br />

Figure 5: Assembly<br />

2.2 Renewal of the Funicular Railway Baku, Azerbaijan<br />

The construction of the existing Funicular Railway in Baku d<strong>at</strong>es back to the 1960s. It is currently in<br />

the process of being completely renewed. Next to a new track, the existing top and valley st<strong>at</strong>ions will<br />

be demolished and replaced with a new steel–glass grid-shell structure to be constructed by the Upper<br />

Austrian company GIG. The valley st<strong>at</strong>ion is not far from the site of the event complex th<strong>at</strong> will host<br />

the Eurovision Song Contest <strong>2012</strong>. The valley st<strong>at</strong>ion connects the Boulevard with the elev<strong>at</strong>ed ground<br />

th<strong>at</strong> is the site where the so called “Flame Towers” are to be built.<br />

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