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Built in Baku, Azerbaijan, the Heydar Aliyev Center is a performing arts center named for the leader of Azerbaijan under Soviet rule from 1969 to 1982, and the first president of Azerbaijan after independence from the Soviet Union in 1993. The Heydar Aliyev Center was Designed by architect Zaha Hadid, and nominated for awards at the World Architecture Festival and the Biennial Inside Festival in 2013. It won Design Museum Design of the Year Award in 2014. Zaha Hadid was awarded architecture’s highest honor, the Pritzker Prize in 2004. This building was featured in an episode of the documentary series, Extreme Engineering, in an episode titled “Azerbaijan’s Amazing Transformation.”