A stairwell is seen in what is to become one of the restaurants at the Khazar Islands project near Sahil, Azerbaijan on July 18, 2012. The brainchild of Ibrahim Ibrahimov, an Azerbaijani oligarch and billionaire, the artificial Khazar Islands project just southwest of the Azerbaijani capital Baku is being built at a projected cost of $100 billion with an anticipated 800,000 housing units.