Uzbekistan - Tashkent Modernist Architecture. Modernity and tradition in Central Asia

Zhemchug residential building, Tashkent, 41°18′9.661″N 69°16′2.005″E House of Publishers, Tashkent, 41°18'40.366″N 69°16′12.817″E Sun Heliocomplex, Parkent, 41°18′46.678″N 69°44′23.296″E Palace of Aviation Constructors, Tashkent, 41°17'32.24″N 69°20′30.58″E State Museum of the History of Uzbekistan, Tashkent, 41°18′41.166″N 69°16′9.541″E Peoples’ Friendship Palace, Tashkent, 41°18′31.11″N 69°14′28.998″E State Circus, Tashkent, 41°19′27.2548″N 69°14′34.606″E State Museum of Arts, Tashkent, 41°18'10.138″N 69°16′40.468″E Union of Artists, Tashkent, 41°18’31.831″N 69°15’59.126″E Panoramic Cinema, Tashkent, 41°19'10.044"N 69°15'34.547"E Chorsu Bazaar, Tashkent, 41°19′36.382″N 69°14′6.209″E Uzbekistan Hotel, Tashkent, 41°19′27.2548″N 69°14′34.606″E Republican House of Tourism, Tashkent, 41°18’39.618″N 69°17′7.545″E Blue Domes, Tashkent, 41°18’24.443″N 69°16’0.922″E Cosmonauts’ Prospekt Metro Station, Tashkent, 41°18′18.579″N 69°15′53.032″E TV Tower, Tashkent, 41°20’44.338″N 69°17′5.573″E Tashkent Modernist Architecture (TMA) is an outstanding example of how twentieth-century architecture was used to shape an early cosmopolitan capital, i.e., a vibrant mosaic of cultures and ethnicities, following the political and social shift in Central Asia under the Soviet period. The series under nomination testifies how postwar architecture accompanied the urban design of a twentieth-century capital and the building of a new society in a continuous dialogue with history and tradition. TMA includes sixteen modernist buildings representing the major social, political, urban, and architectural project that unfolded in the capital of Uzbekistan between the Thaw period and the fall of the USSR, when Tashkent was the fourth most populous city in the Soviet Union.