Khan Shatyr Entertainment Center
If you enjoy shopping, Almaty and Astana are ideal destinations for you. Khan Shatyr is a 140.000 m2 transparent tent at a height of 150 meters. A shopping and entertainment center including a food court, a theater, a minigolf course, a park, and an indoor beach resort is located within the tent. There is, in fact, a beach! The Sky Beach is a sand and tropical plant-filled aqua park. Because the beach's environment is similar to that of a natural maritime climate, summer at Khan Shatyr never ends!
The tent-like cable-net structure, which rises 150 meters from an elliptical base to form Astana's tallest peak, is placed at the northern end of the new city axis. Within an ETFE dome, the structure encloses an area of almost 100,000 square meters, with breathtaking views of the city and the Steppes beyond. An urban-scaled park, as well as a wide range of entertainment and recreational amenities, including stores, cafes, restaurants, cinemas, and flexible spaces that may accommodate a diverse program of events and exhibitions, are all contained within it. The several levels create undulating terraces, with the topmost terrace serving as a water park.
The Center is a major new civic, cultural, and social arena for Astana residents, bringing together a diverse range of activities within a sheltered climatic framework that allows for year-round comfort.
