19/06/2024
The Pyramid of Tirana has won the WAN Awards EMEA in the category Publicly Accessible Buildings! Originally built as a museum dedicated to the communist dictator Enver Hoxha, the Pyramid has been dramatically transformed by MVRDV. Reusing the concrete structure, it is now an open sculpture in a new park.
The park and the sculpture are home to an ensemble of colourful boxes, scattered in and around the original building that now house cafés, studios, workshops, start-up offices, incubators, festivals, and classrooms where Albanian youth will learn various technology subjects for free. Steps have been added to the building’s sloping façades, allowing the people of Albania to literally walk all over the showpiece of the former dictator.
📷 MVRDV