Dezeen Agenda features SOM-designed glazed towers for new Kazakhstan city
The latest edition of our weekly Dezeen Agenda newsletter features a pair of towers in Kazakhstan by SOM. Subscribe to Dezeen Agenda now.
Architecture studio SOM designed two stepped, wedge-shaped towers to serve as a landmark for the new city of Alatau in south-eastern Kazakhstan.
This week’s newsletter also included news that University of Edinburgh researchers used bacteria to turn plastic waste into a Parkinson’s drug, the Jewish history museum in Lithuania by LMA and a feature on whether the next starchitect could be a TikToker.
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