00:22Tashkens' architecture reflects many layers of the city's history.
00:27After the 1966 earthquake, a new generation of public buildings introduced modern forms and materials, adapted to Tashkens' climate and
00:35local traditions.
00:36Ten landmarks from this period are now part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
00:41Our team, together with foreign experts, did a great research work.
00:48We investigated the objects and studied their uniqueness.
00:52We tried to show this uniqueness and deliver to the world community.
00:57One of those landmarks is the State Museum of History, where our journey begins.
01:02The architecture of Tashkens' modernist era was never just about how buildings looked.
01:08It was about how people would experience the city.
01:11The State Museum of History brings that vision into focus with its distinctive design and a collection spanning thousands of
01:19years of Uzbekistan's past.
01:20Designed in 1968 by architects Rozanov and Shnestopalov, the building responds directly to Tashkens' intense summer sun.
01:29It was about how the city of Tashkens was built into the museum itself.
01:48Traditional craftsmanship was also built into the museum itself.
01:52In the first intégrals, there were other buildings, and our huge buildings.
02:00The buildings were built and built to the buildings.
02:04They built their buildings in the sky.
02:05A few minutes away, the State Museum of Art offers another version of the same architectural experiment.
02:13Some buildings are designed to house art.
02:16Others become works of art themselves.
02:18The Uzbekistan State Museum of Art is one of them.
02:22Its bold geometry and minimalist design reflect a period when Tashkent was reimagining its identity through modern architecture.
02:31Designed specifically for its purpose, construction began in 1967 and was completed in 1974.
02:37There were experimental materials used. It did not miss the bright, bright light, which is absolutely impossible for art, especially
02:49painting, graphics, textiles.
02:51In addition to that, it could maintain the temperature.
02:55Modernism also shaped the places where Tashkent gathered for concerts, performances and public events.
03:01The People's Friendship Palace is one of the most prominent examples.
03:05The People's Friendship Palace has long been part of Tashkent's cultural life.
03:10Concerts, performances and major events bring audiences here throughout the year.
03:15But while the attention is usually on the stage, there is another story about and around it.
03:20A remarkable piece of Tashkent's modernist architecture, designed to be experienced alongside the events it hosts.
03:27Those references continue to the interior, where decoration was incorporated into functional elements of the building.
03:57Another landmark from this period was built specifically for circus performances.
04:02Its circular form made the Uzbek stage circus one of the most proudest- famously organized in the Argentinian street
04:05pub,
04:05distinctive additions to Tashkent's modernist cityscape.
04:18But one of the city's most recognizable examples of modernism takes us on the ground.
04:24Kosmonaftlar metro station turns an everyday journey into a piece of design.
04:39More than 50 years after this architectural movement reshapes Tashkent,
04:44many of its buildings are still doing the jobs they were designed to do.
04:48Their UNESCO status may be new. Their place in Tashkent is not.
