the capital of Kazakhstan has a difficult environment to build  such a brave project.
This is Khan Shatyr Entertainment Center (“Royal Marquee”) located in Astana. It is the biggest futuristic like transparent tent on our planet that became a sensation in the architecture world since The architectural project was unveiled by the President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev on 9 December 2006. The 150m-high (500 ft) tent has a 200m elliptical base covering 140,000 square meters. Underneath the tent, an area larger than 10 football stadiums, will be an urban-scale internal park, shopping and entertainment venue with squares and cobbled streets, a boating river, shopping center, mini golf and indoor beach  resort.

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