Аннотация
New socio-economic conditions of Kazakhstan in recent years, as well as increased requirements for the most efficient use of the territory of Astana and the cities of Northern Kazakhstan, have led to new design directions, where intensive construction of a large number of new residential buildings has begun. A prestigious home appeared in terms of comfort and location. The capital city develops in its own way, different from other cities of the country. Construction trends and characteristic architectural and typological features of residential buildings of the last decade considered on the example of Astana architecture. In the urban environment, the formation of a new aesthetics of residential buildings traced. Improving the quality level became possible due to competition in the housing construction market, with the beginning of the modernization of industrial technologies and the use of new building materials. Under these conditions, the typology changes. The changes affect both the functional and planning structure of the dwelling and the appearance of residential buildings. Identification and analysis of the process of changing the economic, typological, functional and artistic content of the dwelling allows us to draw certain conclusions and predict further trends in its evolution.