date:Nov 13, 2012
Baku appears to have found the secret recipe for protecting architecturally significant buildings from demolition.
The U.S.-based fast-food chain KFC has opened what it is billing as its largest-ever restaurant in the Azerbaijani capital. The 1,600-square-meter eatery is housed in the city's Sabunchu rail station, built in 1926 after a design by architect N.G. Bayev.
The historic station was part of the Soviet Union's first electrified railway system in 1924, the tracks linking Baku wi