The home of Albania’s late communist dictator Enver Hoxha is hosting international artists fascinated by the long-ruling ...

Spanish studio Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura has released renders of the 190-metres-tall Papuli Tower in Tirana, ...

Tirana is becoming an unlikely hotspot for offbeat architecture as politicians court high-profile foreign architects to ...

LLM contributor Shekha Vyas immerses herself in the unique energy of the bustling city of Tirana,which is gaining a ...

A map of Albania, the face of the country's national hero and a house-covered facade are among the defining features of these eight skyscrapers currently under development in Tirana. Tirana is ...

During the Cold War, Albanian leader Enver Hoxha scattered a colony of 175,000 concrete bunkers across the country. This is ...

TIRANA, ALBANIA FROM LUTON Yet it’s still ... Where to stay: The Plaza hotel near Skanderbeg Square comes with a warmer atmosphere than the concrete exterior suggests, plus a spa featuring ...

During one of my first weekends in Tirana, the capital of Albania ... as well as the Et'hem Bey Mosque in Skanderbeg Square. While he explained the significance of various main streets in the ...

In the nation's capital, Tirana, located 278km (173 miles) to the north, many Hoxha-era monuments have been torn down to make way for new community spaces. Skanderbeg Square, for example ...

Other projects set to be completed in Tirana include a mixed-use high-rise composed of house-shaped "puzzle pieces" and a kinked skyscraper intended to evoke "the grace of ballet". Sent on ...