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2010 · Astana, Astana, Kazakhstan

Khan Shatyr Entertainment Center image

Seed wave 64 image for Khan Shatyr Entertainment Center.

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Khan Shatyr Entertainment Center

Astana, Astana, Kazakhstan · Exact work coordinates

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Seed wave 64 image for Khan Shatyr Entertainment Center.

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Field	Khan Shatyr Entertainment Center 2010 · Astana, Astana, Kazakhstan	Douglas Cardinal Architect 1964 · Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	2010	1964
Place	Astana, Astana, Kazakhstan	Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Place context	Astana, Astana, Kazakhstan	Representative site: Gatineau, Gatineau, Canada
Climate	13°C · 14.2h daylight · 9 km/h wind	6°C · 13.8h daylight · 18 km/h wind · via Canadian Museum of History
Focus	Entertainment center	3 works in corpus
Architects	Norman Foster	Douglas Cardinal
Linked context	Bureaus Foster + Partners	Notable works Canadian Museum of History Telus World of Science Edmonton National Museum of the American Indian
Typologies	mixed-use retail neo-futurism	museum house performance venue landscape
Materials	ETFE steel	timber
Carbon signals	Steel and ETFE look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Steel ETFE	The recorded material palette leans lower-carbon on paper, but procurement and quantity still matter. No dominant drivers yet.
Lower-carbon levers	Prioritize recycled content, efficient sections, and procurement-specific EPD comparisons. Use classification and product-level EPD research to place this material more precisely.	Track sourcing, certification, and assembly logic rather than assuming timber is automatically low impact.
Accessibility	Publicly accessible	3 of 3 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.