National Pantheon, Astana

[ad_1] By Team IAnD Photography: Courtesy the architects . With the profound thought that the dead require a revered burial, the winning design of the National Pantheon in Kazakhstan's capital Astana has been recently unveiled... It is conceived like a giant whirlpool; a large rotunda that has been haphazardly wound with wide ropes, edges of which trail randomly away, radiating from the core outwards. This proposed and winning design of the ‘Kazakhstan National Pantheon’ by OCRA studio, Bicuadro architects  and studio 3piu1, proposed to  be built within a large natural environment surrounded by undeveloped land, 17 km south of Astana. . . The design originates […]