Khan Shatyr ("Royal Marquee") is a large transparent tent in Astana, capital of Kazakhstan. Built with a distinctive neo-semitic style, this architectural project was inaugurated by Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev on December 9, 2006.
The 150m-high (500Ã, ft) tents have a 200m elliptical base of 140,000 square meters (14 acres; 35 acres). Under the hood, a wider area of ​​10 football stadiums, is an internal park, shopping and entertainment scaled with urban squares and rocky paths, boating rivers, shopping malls, minigolf and indoor beach resorts. The fabric roof is built from an ETFE cushion provided by Vector Foiltec which is hung on a cable network strung from the central tower. The transparent material allows the sunlight to pass, along with the effects of the heap, air heater and cooling system, is designed to maintain internal temperatures between 15-30 ° C (59-86 ° F) in the main room and 19-24 ° C (66-75Ã, Â ° F) in retail units, while outside temperatures vary between -35 and 35Ã, Â ° C (-31 and 95Ã, Â ° F) throughout the year.
Following the construction of the Palace of Peace and Reconciliation (opened in 2006), a giant glass pyramid, the Khan Shatyr Entertainment Center is the second national project in Astana designed by British architect Norman Foster (of Foster and Partners), (Partners in charge of Filo Russo and Peter Ridley ), and British engineer Buro Happold was led by Mike Cook. Architects of construction documentation are Linea and Gultekin. The tent-town development is the responsibility of the Sembol Turkish company.
After a series of delays, the main pole was finally erected in December 2008, and the entire complex was completed and opened on July 5, 2010, the 70th anniversary of Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev. Andrea Bocelli gave a concert for the event, with guests including Russian President Dmitry Medvedev; President of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych; Turkish President, Abdullah GÃÆ'¼l; President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko; Armenian President, Serzh Sargsyan; President of Tajikistan, Emomalii Rahmon; Kyrgyz President Roza Otunbayeva; Abu Dhabi Crown Prince, Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan; and King of Jordan, Abdullah II.
Video Khan Shatyr Entertainment Center
Related videos on the web
Here is a list of some videos, recorded in Khan Shatyr:
- Belly dance performance at Khan Shatyr
- Musical performances on Independence Day of Kazakhstan, 2014
- Philharmonic State Orchestra
- Music performances in "Best of Khan Shatyr 2014" show
- The concert by the Astana National Orchestra, part 1
- The concert by the Astana National Orchestra, part 2
- The concert by the Astana National Orchestra, part 3
- The concert by the Astana National Orchestra, part 4
- The concert by the Astana National Orchestra, part 5
- The concert by the Astana National Orchestra, part 6
- The concert by the Astana National Orchestra, part 7
Maps Khan Shatyr Entertainment Center
References
External links
- SBF-VISA group
- Khan Shatyr
- BBC News in the Tent-City Giant
- fosterandpartners.com
- vector-foiltec.com/
- ANM GROUP INTERNATIONAL
- Megastructures: World's Largest Tent
- Google Maps
- Abassayoh in Khan Shatyr
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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