Astana is the capital of oil-rich Kazakhstan. Unlike its oil-rich brothers in the Middle East who are busily competing against each other for the tallest building, the Kazakhs opted not for much height but for design, using well-known names like Norman Foster, Kisho Kurokawa, etc. to bring "edge" to the city found in the middle of the desolate Central Asian steppes. The original plans for the new Astana were drawn up by the late Japanese architect Kisho Kurokawa, one of the original movers behind the Metabolist architectural movement in Japan.
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| Bayterek, the "torch" designed by Norman Foster |
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| the way they were positioned, these two towers must be guarding something important, don't you think? |
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| ... what could it be? |
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| The Presidential Palace on the foreground, whose entrance is flanked by the two metallic towers |
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| National Theater by Studio Nicoletti |
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