Palace of Peace & Accord, Kazakhstan by Foster and Partners

The pyramid is exactly as high as it is long and wide.

New architecture, like much else in Kazakhstan, bears the mark of the country’s president, Nursultan Nazarbayev. Yet the latest landmark in its new capital is a Foster building through and through

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