Chilly Kazakhstan Building Indoor City
In the capital city of Astana, temperatures can drop to -40F. Kazakhstan's president Nursultan Nazarbayev says the city is fighting the cold by building an entirely indoor city, under a dome 2 kilometers across.
Turkish construction firm Sembol has drawn up some concept plans which include Venetian-style canals and gondolas.
Sembol is currently completing work on a nearby entertainment complex called Khan Shatyr:
Richard Orange writes, "Khan Shatyr's upper zone has a tropical climate, with an indoor 'beach', water slides, wave machine and tropical garden. Lower zones have a monorail system, a running track, a small amusement park, and a shopping complex. The Indoor City will take the same concept to another scale."
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