Astana's weird and wonderful buildings | Kazakhstan
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- Опубліковано 9 чер 2024
- Astana is a city full of weird and wonderful architecture to look at in amazement. The buildings are huge, no expense has been spared - and not all of them are that nice on the eye...
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It`s interesting how westerners have a strong opinion about things that they have zero knowledge of
I think you've been too harsh about the "stolen" and "ugly" architecture.
In my opinion, what they tried to do was to look like a "world class city" incorporating all those elements (greek, roman, egyptian...) into the "soviet" style of building things.
For me, everything works! It's kinda confusing (i agree), but in a pretty way.
I've been to Astana in October 2010. City is amazingly well build with impressive architectural alignment. It seems that video was made on weekday at business hours, so of course not so many people are around. Astana was build with growth in mind and statisticky it's population increased a lot during last fee years. 2 gold coloured buildings are House of Ministry and they are full of people. Gold is traditional Kazakh could and is a symbol of prosperity, so it does not seems intimidating in Kazakh culture, it is welcoming. Khan Shatyr complex is designed to resemble Kazakh nomadic house- Urta. Kazakhstan is multicultural country with over 140 natuinalities, and Astana's architecture shows am awesome blends of world architecture with Kazakh blend. It is a shame that video maker keeps saying that everything was lifted from other cultures, while he did not bother to study Kazakhstan heritage first. As a result he can not see Kazakh styles, simply because he does not know it.
That city is beautiful...i've been there many times.....every one should visit it
So good that tourists like our city! I hope you really enjoyed being in Astana, and I hope you will return here again
Welcome Kz! Bro thank you 💗
клевета? что клевета?
Thank you! I felt very welcome in Kazakhstan!
If you know a lot about my country you should know all buildings has been build by architects from all over the world thats why all buildings deferent from each other .
Gosh! That’s an amazing video editing!
Reminds me of Las Vegas...
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Insha allah im coming in kazakhstan quickly
I’ve been to Astana and always wondered what exactly some of these freaky looking ultra-modern buildings were exactly! Thanks for this video that explains them finally!
This is really great scenes video that I found. 👍👍
Like your vlogs!!
Thank you!
Ohhhh, nice
You made a nice video, I dont know which country you from , but you dont have to undermine other people´s country for them trying to achieve something, like calling some of the building disgusting, at least they tried and are investing for their people compared to countries that have money and do nothing, Astana looks nice, stolen or not stolen designs its NICE.
best city
Mysterious in dangerous ways, I am grateful for having the opportunity to see places where i probably will never had chance to visit. Thank you.
Cidade linda, hello from Brazil
Breathtaking views
It's all ready.. for the ELITE TO FLEE TO
Average salary is NOT 70 dollars a month. Its around 400-500 dollars
a new kind of beast. with eagles wings a bears claws a leapords body a new beast city. many eyes many wings many deadly secret things
Please keep publishing those wonderful videos! Amazing! And perfectly edited 👌
Thank you! I'll keep trying as hard as I can ;)
Why do you think the building styles are stolen?!
All peoples & countries are live in the era of globalization. In the frame of this global ideology the city hall of Astana also has its own vision and accepted a new concept of building of this city.
Astana doing it is by promoting the ideology of multiculturalism and different architectural masterpieces.
P.S. BTW, I like the video quality and cityscapes.
Hello! Which hall sorry? The concert hall? Because I didn't really look at the Akimat... And I do like the concert hall, which certainly wasn't stolen. I didn't say all of them were but some of them - particularly the opera house, the court, the pyramid, and the pillar and colonnade.
It's an interesting idea to say it was inspired by multiculturalism. I'm not sure if that works though. Apart from the pyramid, the buildings mentioned above all seem to be taken from European culture. There's not really anything from Africa, the Americas, south or east Asia, other than the pagoda skyscraper built by a private company. Of course, there's some I may have missed.
I do think it's an attempt to give Astana a sense of history, and of power - each one is taken from a great empire.
Your opinion and vision of the city is very interesting, from the point of view of a foreign observer. And I respect your opinion, because you have the right to it. Islam penetrated into the territory of Kazakhstan already in the 8th century, and is a religion of Central Asia for 1200 years. In the place of Islam, its architecture also penetrated. This is similar to how Christianity originated in the Middle East and penetrated into Europe by changing all the peoples of this continent. The architecture of the Roman Empire, which I can not call the European, because it was modernized by one people and then adopted by other peoples of the continent, was also taken from the Etruscans and Greeks, and they in turn adopted much from the Egyptians and other ancient peoples of the Middle East, and they adopted it even more ancient people, like the Sumerians and Akkadians. This is how the connection of the human civilization appears. One can give a concrete example, if we take the English, then we know that tea and tea drinking is a part of British culture, but they brought tea culture from India, and brought it to India by the nomads of Central Asia, they took it from the Chinese. There arose the culture of tea drinking. You can also say about chess, fan, Arab numerals, or rather Indian numbers, etc. To take you you travel the world, expanding your consciousness and absorbing the cultures and opinions of other people, like a nomad. You live the life of a nomad, use his methods of knowledge of the world and since you in Kazakhstan, I can call you a real nomad))) I apologize for the grammatical errors in my text. I write through an interpreter, but I think that here the most important thing is to convey the thought.
Wow, there's a lot to unpick here! There's no need whatsoever to apologise for anything. I could describe you as Irish for saying sorry so easily. Good work :D
I think I would almost certainly prefer if there had been more of an Islamic influence on the architecture. I love the mosques, and the Persian tiling on the one on the right bank is very reminiscent of Timur's tiles on Yasawi's mausoleum in Turkestan. This is a missed opportunity for me - there was a chance to build one of the great cities of Islam and I don't think that really shows in Astana at the minute.
And you're completely correct about the Romans moving on from the Greeks, who came after the Egyptians. And the Romans became the Byzantines, and then the Ottomans. All of which were very multicultural, because they understood race in a completely different (and more positive and progressive) way than we tend to.
This is the way that civilisation moves, and warps, and changes - and it's amazing. It's only through the movement of people and ideas that I think we can grow. But does Astana really allow for that? I have a feeling that it works in the opposite way. There doesn't seem to be space to think; it's quite rigid and formal. There's little opportunity to pack up the yurta and travel through the steppe and across the mountains.
I love Kazakhstan and it's people, and I thank you for calling me a nomad - but I'm not quite... I do love the nomad's way of looking at and understanding the world, and the humility that such understanding forges. But if there was one word to describe Astana, it wouldn't be humble.
one word buddy...pre·ten·tious
Thank you for sharing your experience at Astana. Somewhere between 5 - 6.00, I love how you speak about "Astana's National Library" you said "I think it's quite a pretty building." This should remind people that the "All Seeing Eye" is an actual fact feminine. Remember why.
i love Astana,that ugly building he says...ohhh for me they are so fucking beautiful....
Nice
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Адемі😊
Going Almaty soon so excited but don’t know anyone lol
This guy seems to be a bit of an architectural snob. For that Parthenon building he remarked, a number of cities around the world copied that building. It is a popular one to copy. The library and concert hall are of a style that is popular in major modern metropolises around the world for such type of buildings, the modernist style with futurism. The government buildings he mentioned at the end are off as well. The supreme court he mentioned does not look Roman from what I can tell. It looks like another modernist style. The presidential palace is not distinctly American. Americans only really use that style in the capital and they borrowed heavily from Greek architecture. As for a building with a dome, many central government buildings around the world have a symmetrical building with a dome. The mosque is off from what he says. The arabian style for a mosque is used widely from Africa to the Philippines, to China and even the new world. The egg building, pillar with egg on top and the tent building he seemed to mock are local styled buildings and did not give credence to very well. The central area he stated had no people was, in the video, had some people and those that go there likely do not go there often for the same reason as the boardwalk, not convenient. Lastly the modern skyscrapers with a unique style is not uncommon in many modern and planed cities that seek to have a unique identity and attempt to use uncommon styles. The state television building in Beijing has an empty center as well, and an unnecessary style, yet it is a unique look that gives it attention. If having a diverse set of buildings that originally came from other places is an act of villainy, then just about every major city in the world would be bad.
Going in a few weeks, are you allowed to fly a drone there?
The footage was great but the commentary was second rate. I didn't really get an insight, only a lot of conclusions.
Looks more like a ghost city
Does anyone notice there are no people outside, anywhere???
Welcome to Astana, capital of Qazaq republic
As I know the average sallary in KZ is between 400-500$. In Astana maybe 600-700$.
Ah... Maybe I misspoke... Did I say month or week?
Born to Wander month
Does Google maps work in Astana?
yes but not all place
Music is intolerable.
Indeed.
Советская, тюркская, постмодернизм и русская культура вдохновляли казахстанскую архитектуру по своей сути.
Какая у советов и русских культура
Pretty edited!
Thank you!
Охренеть,я даже не знаю с чем сравнить этот город.С дубаем мб)
Can someone explain to me why most of the cities in the “stans” seem empty all the time . It’s almost like they’ve built extreme monuments and cities larger than the actual population.
This idiot chose to walk around during business hours in the city where everybody is in the office during the day. Of course there will be nobody outside. The same streets and parks are full of people during the weekends and holidays.
Where are the people children even it's very strange .
This idiot is walking around during business hours in a city which is all about business and government - of course there is nobody outside chilling. These same parks and streets are full of people on weekends and afterhours.
Grand Tartarie
Hi, yes it doesn't make sense they way it has been built, with the different cultures put in.
Where did the money come from to create a city that was not!!!
Strange.
Astana looks good I plan to fly with air Astana I can fly via London for 700 euroa. Via Budapest with wizzair it might be cheaper but it would take 34 hours and I would be stuck in airport for 20 hours I would rather pay 500 euros extra it's much faster
Where are you from mate? Weird accent...
Cool video bro, I am kazakh, and I tell you behind of all that skyscrapers and pyramids is people's struggle, huge difference of classes, we have very reach high class people, who live in that buildings, do their work there, and get pretty high salary. And we have low class, and it is the main part of Kazakhstan. If you want to see real Kazakhstan, Astana is not the best place to show it. We have a dictator on the top, corruption and crime at every levels of managing, low salaries, high bank %s, high prices, we are the top of oil and gas reserves, but still some regions are struggling in winter, using coal and wood to keep warm their houses. All the opposition politics are killed or were able to resettle abroad, that's the real Kazakhstan. Until this government is on top, kz is not the best place to live. There's a huge amount of youngsters wishing to leave the country - there's no way to grow. All countries went through tough parts of time , hopefully we also will, anyway, you are welcome to Kazakhstan, there are lots of people with realistic point of view here, Kazakh people are really kind, we have a lot of nations living here, hope to visit British islands one day to see how the things are going on with my British bros)) cheers
Why are you keeping saying "stolen", have all "Western" culture originated from the West? If you put it this way I can say English, French, German, Spanish stole from Romans, Romans stole from Egyptians and Greeks, Greeks, Egyptians, and Persians stole from Asurians, Sumerians. Also, the "Chinese" building is not actually "Chinese", its Manchurian style building, Chinese stole that from Manchurians. Your words sound disrespectful. Remember, the fact is that almost all significant Kazakh culture symbols such as the great cities were wiped out from the surface of the earth and Kazakh people are brutally forced by the Soviet Regime to be westernized. More importantly, knowledge is meant to be spread and learned by people; and there is no such rule how skyscrapers should look like.
Nice place--except in winter! To be fair--presumably--the Assyrians took their culture from the Egyptians: the columns, etc. The Babylonians took their culture from the Assyrians and all the people that lived around them. The Persians took it from the Babylonians. Greek and Roman culture certain comes from the Middle East. Babylon and Persia. The Roman world and Northern and Eastern Europe take their culture from the Romans and the Turks. Greeks and Romans used to not have lemons. They didn't know what to use them for. So now the Middle East and Central Asia take our culture!
that was just total crazytown. Does that place actually exist? It makes no sense at all
Are you another bigoted Western a-hole like this blogger in the video?
One thing I can say about Ireland and that is true.
The rose does not grow in the garbage bag .
This sentence is about you.
Is this an insult, or a compliment...
@@BorntoWander1 I think most comments on this video agree that you are a bigoted idiot... Take this as a compliment...
Yeah the commentary in this video is second rate, and the uploader of this video does not seem to know much about Kazakhstan culture and architecture in general.
Your best video yet! Very good that you contrast the "real" homes with the inflated new construction. Kazakhstan seems to use architecture to present a false sense of stability and progress; hiding the true quality of life experienced by the majority of Kazakhs. And, excellent drone-video!
Thank you! It was a lot of work, and I'm still not entirely happy with the end result, but I do feel like I'm improving each time...
This is exactly it - I think they know that most people who visit won't have a chance to see much more of the country than Astana, Almaty and the odd trip to the countryside. I do wonder why they don't spend a little bit more of all that oil and gas money on improving everything else, and a little less on the carbuncles...
he became the capital 20 years ago before that was a small town of 150,000 population
@@BorntoWander1 you are envious bastard if you don't like smth in my country fuck off back to your zoo
One can't spell Astana without Satan...- Q mega meme folder
Anons know.
Another stupid conspirologist?
‘Stolen’ this, ‘stolen’ that, meanwhile I’m in NYC looking at all these Greek buildings like 👁👄👁... pretty ignorant for someone who travels a lot! (And knows history) (And knows that every building was a very unique ‘piece’ by a world famed architect... Therefore, they’ll have their personal/individual style) 😒
Local here. Everything on fucking point. Astana is perfect example of how not to build new cities, stupidity and bad taste.
Are you a Westerner? Then shove your opinion up your **s...
I don;t know what has made me laugh more that the mindless assumptions and conclusions of the know it all narrator.
Babylon 666
youre not showing any of the city not interested in see you walk and talk
Almaty is much more better...
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