Previous entries in my “Buildings That I love” series have focused exclusively on the Kyrgyz capital’s Soviet Modernist…
# Kyrgyzstan
Bishkek lies just 30 kilometers from the Kazakh border, and another 200 kilometers from Almaty, the cultural and…
Full disclosure: I’m not in Kyrgyzstan anymore. My Fulbright fellowship concluded a couple weeks ago, and I’m writing…
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…
Loath though I am to admit it, my days in Kyrgyzstan are numbered. I’ve enjoyed nearly every minute…
No architectural tour of Bishkek is complete without a visit to the Presidential Palace, the glorious seven-story pièce…