TIRANA, July 14 (Reuters) - Albania will tear down a pyramid-shaped landmark built as a museum for the late Stalinist dictator Enver Hoxha, opening the way for a new parliament building, according to ...

Anti-government protestors at the pyramid in January 2011. Photo: Godo Godaj Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world's hidden wonders. Like us on Facebook, Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter ...

Albania’s controversial Tirana Pyramid—a former monument to the country’s communist leader—will finally be repurposed after years of decay. MVRDV has officially unveiled designs to transform the ...

Plans to demolish one of Tirana’s best-known landmarks, a former museum dedicated to Enver Hoxha, have drawn the ire of architects, activists and even some former Hoxha-era political prisoners.

MVRDV has renovated and transformed The Pyramid of Tirana in Tirana, Netherlands. The Pyramid of Tirana, originally built as a museum dedicated to the communist dictator Enver Hoxha, has been ...

Once seen as a symbol for an oppressive totalitarian regime, a building resembling a pyramid in the center of Albanian capital Tirana is about to be given a new tech-centered lease of life. The best ...

Albania's Tirana Pyramid is a building with an interesting past. Opening in 1988 as a museum honoring the country's former communist leader Enver Hoxha, it was subsequently used as a temporary NATO ...

FOR YEARS it has been an eyesore. Stripped of its marble facing and defaced with graffiti, Tirana’s pyramid was falling down. Now workmen are busily clambering about on top of it, as work has begun on ...

Plans have emerged to transform a 1980s pyramid built in the middle of the Albanian capital, Tirana, into an IT hub. It was built as a museum to dictator Enver Hoxha and has since served as a NATO ...

There are two main ways that people usually treat the crumbling monuments of eastern European communism: Either they destroy them or they preserved them intact, adding context to turn them into ...

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 ...