techPlate 174 · Astana, Kazakhstan

Khan Shatyr

A tent of ETFE in a city of winters, so a mall could have a beach.

2010 · Foster + Partners · Asia

The chamber score

Adai

Kurmanğazı · dombra

Steppe, then a tent of tensioned fabric. The dombra already knew.

An original chamber arrangement in the climate of the work. The recording is not a copy. It is the room answering.

Why it is here

Foster's translucent tent, among the most distinctive buildings of Central Asia.

Commission the full chamber

This monument is in the atlas. The rebuild can be written for you.

Ask the studio to reconstruct Khan Shatyr through tech — or shift it into another corridor.

Open a commission

Shift the feeling

What if Khan Shatyr was rebuilt as something else?

Ask the architect

One question. Stay in the room.