Gotham architecture

This is the Triumph of Astana building, which to me has Gotham City written all over it. It's a magnificent building, absolutely massive. On a grey day I expect batman to be standing on one of the top corners, his cape undulating in the breeze, looking down on the doomed metropolis that he is trying to save.

Triumph of Astana: home to Wayne enterprises

Astana is in fact a shiney, new, medium sized city which is impressively clean and very peaceful. It's full of aspiring bureaucrats, technocrats - career people. In fact, it wouldn't be unfair to accuse Astana, shiney as it may be, of lacking a bit of soul. Everything's new new new, which is exciting, but there's a bit of a lack of history. And so the Triumph of Astana is a very welcome building: it may be new, but it looks so formidable and adds a lot of weight to a place which otherwise feels quite light.

The Triumph of Astana is built in the style of the so-called 'Seven Sisters' - seven Stalinist gothic skyscrapers in Moscow. So some people see the building is a bit of a 'look what we can do' symbol from Kazakhstan to its former master.