Kazakhstan to Foster and Partners: 'Here's Some Money, Build Something Cool'

Man we wish it was a year ago, because then we could have written about this brief story in The Guardian about mega-firm Foster and Partners‘ plans for building in Kazakhstan and made all sorts of zany Borat references and you would have thought we were all hip and funny and cool. Instead, we’ll just have to settle for telling you their plans for a complex in the center of the country’s capital, described as a “mini-city designed to look like a three dimensional bar chart.”

Norman Foster has designed the complex to include an 88-storey office tower, a “traditional” Kazakh market and a winter garden the size of a football pitch to offer locals the chance to enjoy temperatures of around 10C (50F) while it is -30C outside.

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