An enormous pyramid was long a reminder of a brutal regime and decades of disappointments. Now, it’s a symbol of a city aspiring to be the high-tech “Tel Aviv of the Balkans.” By Andrew Higgins TIRANA ...
(Bloomberg) -- It looks like a fantastical skate park or an abandoned modernist shopping mall, with its huge sloped concrete surfaces defaced by graffiti and its grimy glass panels, but this decaying ...
Despite the renovation of the the Block district, many relics of the past remain, including the crumbling Pyramid building, which under communism housed a museum to Hoxha.
Albania's Communist Pyramid At Last Has A Point By Emmy VARLEY and Briseida MEMA June 13, 2023, 1:40 am EDT Share ...
The symbolism of the newly renovated Pyramid in Tirana, Albania, might at first seem straightforward. Unveiled in mid-October, just as leaders of the European Union’s largest nations arrived in the ...
TIRANA – A pharaonic landmark in central Tirana built as a posthumous museum for Albania's communist-era strongman, Enver Hoxha, is being transformed into a youth training and art center. Albanian ...
TIRANA, Albania — Built in the 1980s to commemorate a dead tyrant in Pharaonic style, the concrete and glass pyramid in the center of Albania’s capital, Tirana, was falling apart by the time engineers ...