Satpaev Street Almaty

LDA Design

Ready to Build (Permitted Projects) – Masterplanning. City Planning. Transport. Urban landscape

Kazakhstan

Company Name

LDA Design

COMPANY COUNTRY:

United Kingdom

ARCHITECTURAL CREDITS

LDA Design

Project Team

Benjamin Walker, Joanne Walker, Morbheinn McAllister, Kit Bowen, Ben Adams

CLIENT OR OWNER NAME:

Akimat of Almaty

Project Name:

Satpaev Street Almaty

Project Country:

Kazakhstan

Project City:

Almaty

Project Category:

Masterplanning. City Planning. Transport. Urban landscape

Project Area:

2 061 467 sqm

Completion Date:

2026-06-01

Project overview

Satpaev Street project is a Green Infrastructure strategy that reimagines the central part of the city as its cultural artery, transforming a traffic-dominated barrier into a vibrant civic spine that reconnects the city through movement, culture, landscape, and everyday life. Linking key cultural destinations including Republic Square, City Hall, museums, libraries, theatres, and the stadium, the proposal introduces a new public realm framework that prioritises people over vehicles.

Project history

The project was being developed from August 2025 to January 2026. Since the client emphasized the need for fast delivery, concept design and detailed design were running almost in pararell between the international and local designer. As soon as the design phase was done, the project went into construction phase. Construction was done in June 2026 and the impact of the project could be felt right away. The project completely reshaped the central most part of the city, for the first time placing people first instead of the cars. Green and blue infrastructure is embedded throughout the corridor to provide shade, cooling, biodiversity, and climate resilience, while a series of pavilions, cafés, creative spaces, and gathering places activate the street as a destination in its own right. The project creates stronger connections to the wider city, the rivers, and the mountains, transforming Satpaev from a fragmented transport corridor into a unified civic landscape.