Eye-popping architecture
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MC Chicken Sandwich All I want for Christmas is your mum, Thu 21 Jun 2018, 11:42,
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Lord, most of them are awful,
with the notable exception of the concert-hall in Astana, which is lovely.
FUN FACT: Dushanbe is Tajik (that is, Persian that uses the Cyrillic alphabet) for Monday. The city grew from a market that used to happen there on Mondays.
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 21 Jun 2018, 11:55,
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I really liked the Astana, understated and original
The others looked like the usual celebration of wealth and ego.
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Thu 21 Jun 2018, 12:54,
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Yep.
They're like primary-school football trophies.
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 21 Jun 2018, 13:12,
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at least they're fun I guess
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horrid, Thu 21 Jun 2018, 15:51,
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every single one of them is better than the arcelor mittal orbit
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theswollenbeef where there's a will there's a wank, Thu 21 Jun 2018, 14:43,
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*looks*
This helter-skelter has cancer.
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Thu 21 Jun 2018, 15:45,
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It's like someone dropped a rollercoaster.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Fri 22 Jun 2018, 16:38,
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There’s some nice designs in there
That bank in Ashgabat and the one below in particular.
Some utter horrors too though.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Thu 21 Jun 2018, 12:01,
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I'd take most of those ahead of half the shit that's currently being built in London.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Thu 21 Jun 2018, 12:31,
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Clearly Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov sees himself as a modern-day Peter the Great - looks exactly like the "Bronze Horseman" in St Petersburg.
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Mr Mann I love pigs, best of all the animals, Thu 21 Jun 2018, 12:55,
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Pyramid of Peace and Accord, Astana... is meant to represent all of the world’s religions
And block a lovely view of a perfectly good temple.
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joefish It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks, Thu 21 Jun 2018, 17:09,
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