{"id":48431,"date":"2026-04-13T00:53:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T22:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/?p=48431"},"modified":"2026-04-13T00:53:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T22:53:35","slug":"twilight-over-khan-chatyr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/photo-of-the-day\/twilight-over-khan-chatyr\/","title":{"rendered":"Twilight over Khan Chatyr\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The late afternoon sun passes behind the<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Khan_Shatyr_Entertainment_Center\" id=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Khan_Shatyr_Entertainment_Center\"> Khan Chatyr <\/a><\/strong>shopping center in <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Astana\" id=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Astana\">Astana<\/a><\/strong>, illuminating the framework of this original building. An immense 150-meter-high tent, it was designed by architect <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Norman_Foster\" id=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Norman_Foster\">Norman Foster<\/a><\/strong> at the request of Kazakhstan\u2019s president, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nursultan_Nazarbayev\" id=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nursultan_Nazarbayev\">Nazarbayev.<\/a><\/strong> The tent\u2019s walls are made of a special flexible material, allowing transparency while protecting the building from temperature variations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Credits : Tolgahan Biskin (France, @tolgahan.iso)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Find <a style=\"color: #f57d20; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/tag\/photo-of-the-day\/\">all of our photos of the day<\/a>. You can buy some of these and receive them at home: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ff6600;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/novastan\/you-can-buy-novastans-pictures-of-the-day\/\">here is the list<\/a><\/span>! If you can't find your picture in the list, mail us to <a href=\"mailto:photo@novastan.org\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">photo@novastan.org<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The late afternoon sun passes behind the Khan Chatyr shopping center in Astana, illuminating the framework of this original building. An immense 150-meter-high tent, it was designed by architect Norman Foster at the request of Kazakhstan\u2019s president, Nazarbayev. The tent\u2019s walls are made of a special flexible material, allowing transparency while protecting the building from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":984,"featured_media":48432,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[1027,4087,470,4002],"coauthors":[3992],"class_list":["post-48431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photo-of-the-day","tag-architecture","tag-central-asia","tag-kazakhstan","tag-photo-of-the-day"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/984"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48433,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48431\/revisions\/48433"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48431"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=48431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}