Kazakhstan to Use a Tent to Create Indoor City.

By Alex in Everything Else, Travel on Dec 10, 2006 at 12:44 pm

Kazakhstan is planning to put up a giant transparent tent over its capital Astana, essentially creating an indoor city!

Underneath, in an area larger than 10 football stadiums, will be a city with squares and cobbled streets, canals, shopping centres and golf courses.

The idea is to recreate summer, so that when the outside temperature is -30C, the residents of the Kazakh capital can play outdoor tennis, take boat rides or sip coffee on the pavement cafes.

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Moon
Dec 10th, 2006 at 6:13 pm
Whoa! This is so cool. We NEED this in Chicago!
Cathna
Dec 10th, 2006 at 7:11 pm
This is indeed so cool! We need this in DFW Texas to protect our breathing from the asinine plan to install coal burning energy plants near this area! Save the lungs!
Bob
Dec 10th, 2006 at 9:22 pm
I’ll believe it when I see it. When I lived there they couldn’t even heat most of the public buildings so pulling off something like this and having it work seems unbelievable.
josiah
Dec 11th, 2006 at 12:44 am
ees nice.
Moon
Dec 11th, 2006 at 9:53 am
They have to do something to catapult the PR, after Borat, so this may get done!
pilov jetsunewko
Dec 11th, 2006 at 11:24 am
The idea is to recreate summer, so that when the outside temperature is -30C, the residents of the Kazakh capital can play table tennis, rape, take boat rides and do archery. It allso protects against the jew whit their claws.
Random Good Stuff
Dec 11th, 2006 at 12:11 pm
It looks a little bit like the Sony Center in Berlin, Germany.
gary
Dec 11th, 2006 at 2:14 pm
watch the sucker collapses and you have tens of thousands of people suffocate and die a horrible death. OR.. they neglect to adequately vent vehicle emissions (of course they will stupidly allow motorized vehicles within the tent), and everyone passes out and dies of carbon monoxide poisioning. Issa very nice!
Whatever
Dec 11th, 2006 at 5:33 pm
They were going to do that to a US city years ago but I think they had grave concerns with condensation and artificial rain. They didn’t want to create a terrarium.
huh?
Dec 11th, 2006 at 8:30 pm
Is this how they spend their money there? may want to bring in tourists first.
sharpley1
Dec 12th, 2006 at 8:29 am
Won’t collapse as the structure is being designed about 10m behind me in my office in the UK and it won’t rain inside as I spent the last 8 months working on the environmental concept design for it to make sure things like that don’t happen.

Car Park is only at ground level and complies with stringent local regulations and there is sufficient heating to deal with even the coldest days.

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