Previous entries in my “Buildings That I love” series have focused exclusively on the Kyrgyz capital’s Soviet Modernist…
# Architecture
Welcome to the fourth installment of Buildings That I Love, an ongoing exploration of Bishkek’s architectural curiosities. You…
The Kyrgyz are historically a semi-nomadic people, and they’ve left behind few permanent traces of their two-thousand-year existence…
Dear friends: on Monday, I wrote a detailed report of my visit to Arslanbob, but I somehow managed…
No architectural tour of Bishkek is complete without a visit to the Presidential Palace, the glorious seven-story pièce…
Note: this post doesn’t contain any photos, aside from the one above (which was taken with my old…
Welcome to the second installment of Buildings That I Love, an ongoing series in which I introduce some…
This post is the first in a series of short missives exploring the history and architecture of some…
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