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Government House of the Kazakh ASSR (now KBTU): Exterior · Main building of the Kazakh-British Technical University in Almaly district, Almaty
1/6 · Exterior · Main building of the Kazakh-British Technical University in Almaly district, AlmatyPhoto: Matti Blume · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
Government House of the Kazakh ASSR (now KBTU): Exterior · Main building of the Kazakh-British Technical University in Almaty
2/6 · Exterior · Main building of the Kazakh-British Technical University in AlmatyPhoto: t_y_l · CC BY-SA 2.0 · source
Government House of the Kazakh ASSR (now KBTU): Exterior · Kazakh-British university building (former city council)
3/6 · Exterior · Kazakh-British university building (former city council)Photo: Nikolai Bulykin · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
Government House of the Kazakh ASSR (now KBTU): Exterior · Main building of the Kazakh-British Technical University in Almaly district, Almaty
4/6 · Exterior · Main building of the Kazakh-British Technical University in Almaly district, AlmatyPhoto: Matti Blume · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
Government House of the Kazakh ASSR (now KBTU): Detail · Almaty, KZ
5/6 · Detail · Almaty, KZPhoto: Asparukh Akanayev from Calgary, AB, Canada · CC BY 2.0 · source
Government House of the Kazakh ASSR (now KBTU): Context
6/6 · ContextPhoto: Brian Harrington Spier · CC BY-SA 2.0 · source
Photo 1: Exterior · Main building of the Kazakh-British Technical University in Almaly district, AlmatyPhoto 2: Exterior · Main building of the Kazakh-British Technical University in AlmatyPhoto 3: Exterior · Kazakh-British university building (former city council)Photo 4: Exterior · Main building of the Kazakh-British Technical University in Almaly district, AlmatyPhoto 5: Detail · Almaty, KZPhoto 6: Context

Civic · Modernism

Government House of the Kazakh ASSR (now KBTU)

Moisei Ginzburg · Almaty, KZ · 1931

Key featuresConstructivist government house by Ginzburg, long horizontal wings with ribbon windows; now a university.

Architect
Moisei Ginzburg
Place
Almaty, KZ
Year
1931
Typology
Civic
Movement
Modernism
Region
Middle East
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