The Batumi Public Service Hall, on the south side of town, is one of the most photographed pieces of architecture in the city — and one of the most functional. It is the building where Georgians come to get a driving licence, a passport, or a property title, but the structure looks like a piece of speculative science fiction: a series of overlapping glass-and-aluminium rings spreading outwards like leaves, with a central atrium at the heart.
The hall is open to the public during working hours; you can walk in, climb the spiral ramps, and look around the atrium without any official business. It is part of the Saakashvili-era push to make even the dreariest aspects of Georgian bureaucracy feel like a visit to a museum.