(SOUNDBITE OF FOOTSTEPS) REEVES: Step down these stairs into the surreal underground world of the Tashkent metro. The ticket hall is orderly and clean. REEVES: Then as the train sets off ...

But start in Tashkent. Following the earthquake, the city was rebuilt with a large tree-lined boulevard, numerous parks and, crucially, a Metro system. In accordance with Soviet practice ...

Tashkent became a laboratory of urbanism. Architects arrived en masse to rebuild roads, apartment blocks, hotels, theaters, shopping malls, metro stations and a panoply of public structures that ...

The Heliocomplex outside Tashkent is one of the largest solar furnaces in the world. (Karel Balas) Both the Heliocomplex and Cosmonaut Prospekt Metro Station have glass installations by Irena ...

The Tashkent Metro may be a great modernist symbol of a progressive, global city, but it is also one that carries a rich and ornamental respect for the region’s history, craft, and architecture. Now a ...