Tashkent: Hotel Uzbekistan

Hotel Uzbekistan.  Also one of the most notable attractions in Tashkent because of its Soviet style architecture.  We stumbled upon it, coming out of the metro at the wrong exit.  

Opened in 1974, its distinctive grid-pattern façade became one of the defining images of Tashkent, sitting directly across from Amir Timur Square like a monument to Soviet modernism. Even now, it feels less like a luxury hotel and more like an architectural time capsule from another era.

And time capsule is right... from reading the hotel's reviews, I'm glad we didn't stay there.