The first time I saw this on the Internet, I told myself I wanted to visit it. A prime example of Real Socialism architecture, it's straight from a Sixties sci-fi landscape. Salome, her sister and her friend Dimitri organized to show me the location, after I expressed the wish a few days before.
The complex consists of multiple buildings of different heights, lined up on the side of a hill and connected by metal footbridges, one connecting the first building with the hilltop. A lift on the taller building directly connects the 14th floor with the ground floor, with another lift servicing the various floors.
It's not classically beautiful, but if you know me, you know I have little use for classic beauty. It's eerie, especially in the sunset, suggesting an inner world where strange things happen. A city in the city.
After visiting the building, we went to visit a huge pedestrian bridge, over the Vera river, near one of the buildings of the Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University. It's huge, being just for pedestrians, and it's reportedly used for both bungee jumping and... sucides.
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