The eastern half of the Nurzhol bulvar starts with this plaza which springs to life with music-and-water shows at 9pm on summer evenings. Further east stand twin golden-green, conical business centres: the southern one contains the headquarters of Samryk-Kazyna , Kazakhstan’s sovereign wealth fund. Curving away left and right from these towers are the two wings of the House of Ministries , and straight ahead, behind pretty flower gardens, stands the white-pillared presidential palace, the Ak Orda .
The two towers of parliament, the Senate and Mazhilis , rise behind the northern ministerial building. At the south end of the space before the Ak Orda is the turquoise-tiled Central Concert Hall (architects: Manfredi and Luca Nicoletti, Italy), whose design is intended to evoke the petals of a flower.
