Tirana is becoming an unlikely hotspot for offbeat architecture as politicians court high-profile foreign architects to transform the Albanian capital into a "world city". Starr Charles reports.

At first glance, Tirana might not seem like the quintessential European city-break destination. It doesn't have a picturesque medieval old town (its Byzantine-era fortress has been turned into a ...

Portuguese studio OODA has revealed a skyscraper made up of 13 staggered cube volumes as its design for the Hora Vertikale residential development in Tirana. Scheduled to break ground in spring ...