Skanderbeg Square Tirana, Albania public realm

Skanderbeg Square Tirana, Albania

Award for this design by 51N4E architects: It is very important to realise that this project is – in the end – not about the square. It is about Tirana, an Albania city which has changed enormously the last years, at some places beyond recognition.

TID Tower Tirana Building Albania

TID Tower Tirana Building

Design: 51N4E architects. The Albania building complements the most important monuments of Tirana: the Skanderbeg statue, the oldest mosque, the clock tower and – at the foot of the tower – a memorial tomb for the city’s founder Suleiman Pasha.

Marubi National Museum of Photography Shkodër

Marubi National Museum of Photography in Shkodër

Design: casanova+hernandez architecten. Shortlisted for Mies van der Rohe 2017 Awards: the new building opens a new generation of contemporary museums in Albania, not only restoring the Albanian cultural heritage, but also forming an attraction for visitors.

Tirana Apartments: Albanian Flats by baukuh

Residential Development in Albania Tirana Housing

The site lacks any clear order: gardens and low buildings from the 50s mixed with recent apartment blocks. The Tirana apartments building design by Italian architects baukuh does not suggest any transformation of the place into a crowded, intense, metropolitan area.

Ate Pjeter Meshkalla Albanian School

Ate Pjeter Meshkalla, Shkodra Albania school building

In 2006 project won the International Competition on calls for a school than in the city of Scutari (Albania) held by the Company of the Jesuits. The school complex is located in the center of buildable area and all areas of the relationships, the green and the various activities are open to the outside and relate directly to the city.

Yellow Palace Tirana Apartments

Yellow Palace Tirana Apartments

The Yellow Palace is a small and intimate facility in Tirana, Albania, a ‘palazzetto’ funded by six households, each in a floor of 125sqm, and ground floor for shops. With a very tight budget, even putting in doubt its construction of 875sqm.

Central Tirana Masterplan: Albania Design

Central Tirana Masterplan: Albania Design

Grimshaw selected to masterplan a large expansion to Albania’s capital city, Tirana. The Mayor of Tirana called for designs to extend the 1930s boulevard a further 3km and establish a new 7km riverside park, rejuvenating the river Tirana and the city in the process.

Cultural Centre Albania Mosque Complex by BIG

Cultural Centre Albania - Mosque Complex by BIG

BIG, Martha Schwartz Landscape, Buro Happold, Speirs & Major, Lutzenberger & Lutzenberger, and Global Cultural Asset Management are today announced as the winning team of the international design competition for a new 27.000 m2 cultural complex in Albania.

Parliament of Albania Tirana: Coop Himmelb(l)au

Parliament of Albania Tirana building design by COOP HIMMELB(L)AU

Wolf D. Prix / COOP HIMMELB(L)AU presents the new ‘Open Parliament of Albania’ in Tirana which incorporates fundamental democratic values such as openness, transparency and public co-determination.

Tirana Masterplan, Albanian housing

Tirana Masterplan - Albanian Housing

JA Joubert Architecture, a Rotterdam-based architectural office, has won first prize in an international competition for a new neighbourhood in Tirana, Albania.

Korça Masterplan Buildings, Albania

Korça Masterplan Tirane Buildings, Albania

JA Joubert Architecture, a young Rotterdam-based office, has won second prize in the international competition for the design of the City Centre Master Plan for Korça, Albania