The 150m-high (500ft) tent has a 200m elliptical base covering 100,000 square meters. It is being made from ETFE suspended on a network of cables strung from a central spire. The transparent material allows sunlight through to create the effect of summer inside while outside the temperature can drop to -30°C in the winter. Underneath the tent, an area larger than 10 football stadiums, will be an urban-scale internal park, shopping and entertainment venue with squares and cobbled streets, canals, shopping centres and golf courses.
This will be the second project designed by UK architect Norman Foster (of Foster and Partners, collaborating architects are Linea, Gultekin and UMO), who has recently built a giant glass pyramid in Astana. The construction of the tent-city, expected to take a year, will be carried out by the Turkish company Sembol.
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