When snow flooded the Pyramid

Yesterday, on the 29th of December, there happeneth the long-expected inauguration of Ichari Shahar Underground Station in downtown Baku. One of the oldest underground stations in Baku, it was brutally torn down earlier to be replaced by a Pei style “Louvre pyramid“. According to rumours, this pyramid cost more than Cheops’ pyramid did. In this financial crisis, when oil lost mooooore than half of its price, the Government paid 15 million new manats (app. 18.5 million US dollars) for its construction. And now this glass-and-steel “chef d’oeuvre” of the world architecture stands in front of the mediaeval city walls (XI-XII centuries) and Shirvanshahs’ Palace (XV-XVI centuries), and next to historic City Council building!

Today, on the 30th of December, a dozen of labourers were climbing up and down the pyramid in order to clear snow from the surface of it. Snow is the rarest thing in Baku, but when it arrives it brings disasters - sewerage collapse, roads and pavements are covered in ankle-deep mud, rivers flow through steep Bakuvian streets and most important one – snow melts and its water comes down across glass cover to flood the Pyramid ;-)®