Dezeen Agenda features SOM-designed glazed towers for new Kazakhstan city

The latest edition of our weekly Dezeen Agenda newsletter features a pair of towers in Kazakhstan by SOM. Subscribe to Dezeen Agenda now.

Architecture studio SOM designed two stepped, wedge-shaped towers to serve as a landmark for the new city of Alatau in south-eastern Kazakhstan.

Plastic bottles recycled into Parkinson's drug using bacteria

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