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NEW PART(Y) OF TBILISI 03/04/2009

An important part of the information of The New Map was contributed by the citizens of Tbilisi.

We brought the different contributors together online, using Facebook, Panoramio, Flickr etc.

In April 2009, an UrbanCPRme action brought them together again in one big party, in Tbilisi, organized in the former Silk Factory.

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Located at the crossroads between Europe and Asia, along the historic Silk Road. It is one of many factories that lost their function after the collapse of the Soviet Union and then occupied by refugees. In 2005 Tbilisi Art Academy got the building, and used it as an exhibition space, while the refugees where displaced. Nowadays, Bidzina Ivanishvili, a Georgian bilionair, who recently bought Channel 9 and this modern Buisness Centrer to broadcast live, bought it.

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FORMER SILK FACTORY NEW PART(Y) OF TBILISI

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Bidzina Ivanishvili, the silk factory’s owner compound: Architect: Shin Takamatsu Project areas (NIA): Site Area: 21,507 sqm Building area: 4,192 sqm Total floor area: 16,768 sqm

S ILK GEORGIAN BILLIONAIRE BUILDS A FORTRESS OVERLOOKING TBILISI Bidzina Ivanishvili held an international architecture competition for the design of the center with a guest house, multipurpose hall, conference rooms, fitness gym, pool, dance hall, indoor tennis court, relaxation space, and an enormous residence with the best security system and ‘the best architecture’.

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Social networking, on-line & in-life: New Part(y) of Tbilisi at the Former Soviet Silk Factory

The Silk Factory

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