Zaha Hadid Architects   Uzbekistan   The firm Zaha Hadid Architects has been announced as the designers, in collaboration with the engineers of Buro Happold, of a research facility named in honor of the 15th-century poet Alisher Navoi and to go up in Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan.

Wired   Michael Hardy   Italian photographers Roberto Conte and Stefano Perego developed an interest in Soviet architecture while working on projects in Russia, Georgia, Armenia, and Belarus. For their new book Soviet Asia: Soviet Modernist Architecture in Central Asia, pub