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The Pyramid of Tirana (Albanian: Piramida) is a structure and former museum located in Tirana, the capital of Albania. It opened as a museum in 1988 and became a conference center in 1991 following the collapse of Communism. During the 1999 Kosovo War, the building was used as a NATO base.
The Pyramid of Tirana is now the most special attraction in Tirana, which can now be called the symbol of the controversial history of Albania. The pyramid was erected as a mausoleum of the former dictator Enver Hoxha with his daughter Pranvera and her husband Klement Kolaneci as architects.
Feb 19, 2023 · 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...
The Pyramid of Tirana: A Remnant of an Empire That Never Was - Into Albania. Tirana’s Historical and Cultural Mirror. Indisputably a symbolic landmark of the capital, the Pyramid of Tirana is a relic portraying a turbulent past and an uncertain yet hopeful future.
Oct 23, 2023 · The Pyramid of Tirana, originally built as a museum dedicated to the communist dictator Enver Hoxha, has been dramatically transformed by MVRDV. Reusing the concrete structure, the Pyramid is...
Nov 22, 2014 · Discover Pyramid of Tirana in Tirana, Albania: An Albanian monument to the Communism that nearly crushed the country is now a crumbling wreck.
Feb 27, 2024 · The Destructive Rebirth of the Pyramid of Tirana. By Skender Luarasi. The transformed Pyramid of Tirana by MVRDV. Photo © Ossip van Duivenbode. February 27, 2024. MVRDV ’s transformation of the Pyramid of Tirana into a digital hub was inaugurated on the occasion of the Western Balkan Summit on October 16—not coincidentally, the birthday of ...
