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Apartment block with ski-slope roof to be built in Almaty

Aug 20, 2019

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Almaty, Kazakhstan.

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Megan Eaves

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Megan Eaves is a travel author, consultant and advocate for sustainable travel and dark skies. She formerly served as Lonely Planet's North and Central Asia Destination Editor. Her writing appears in The Independent, BBC, CNN, Culture Trip, South China Morning Post, TimeOut, Travel Weekly, Horizon Guides and numerous others. She has written Lonely Planet guidebooks to China, South Korea and Tibet and edited dozens more, as well as DK guides to China, Shanghai and Beijing. Her other beats in…
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Architects in Kazakhstan’s largest city, Almaty have announced plans to build an apartment block with a ski slope for its roof.

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The ‘House Slalom’ is designed to take advantage of Almaty’s cold winters with a 326m piste descending in a spiral from the roof to ground level. In addition to being a generally awesome alternative to riding in a lift, organisers hope the slope will fill a gap in places to ski in the area. Read more: inform.kz

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