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TIRANA PYRAMID

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Bulevardi Dëshmorët e Kombit 5, Tirana, Albania
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2024
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2024

Emblematic monument erected in 1988 as a mausoleum for Enver Hoxha. It is now a computer training center.

A landmark building in Tirana, this "Pyramid"(Piramida) was designed as a mausoleum for Albania's head of state, Enver Hoxha (1908-1985). Built in 1988 and then abandoned for a long time, it was renovated between 2020 and 2023 by Dutch architects MVRDV. Today, it houses a municipal training center for new technologies. This will train around 10,000 high school students each year. Apprentices attend classes and are housed on site, in a 12,000m2 structure. Outside, some fifty multicolored cubes house companies in the digital sector, as well as cafés and restaurants open to the public. It's also possible to climb the steps of the main building. Designed by architects Pranvera Hoxha (the dictator's daughter, born in 1953) and her husband Klement Kolaneci (1948-2016), the Pyramid takes the form of a cone rising to a height of 21 m, with fourteen inclined uprights covered in white marble slabs and a large octagonal glass façade overlooking the Boulevard des Martyrs-de-la-Nation. The entire structure was designed around a sumptuous pentelic marble sarcophagus, the same used for the construction of the Parthenon in Athens in the5th century B.C. But Enver Hoxha was eventually buried in the Martyrs of the Nation cemetery. The Pyramid served in turn as a museum in the dictator's honor, NATO troop headquarters, television studio and nightclub.


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HEDO
Visited in june 2019
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Si la ville a voulu en faire un symbôle de la période Hoxha, son état de décrépitude est à l'image de l'intérêt qu'à laissé cette période
cheguemanu
Visited in april 2017
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Inesthétique à souhait mais symbole de la ville, ce bâtiment est le lieu emblématique de la capitale albanaise! Essayez d'y grimper, avec de bonnes chaussures et un peu d'élan ce n'est pas si compliqué!
KriKrix
Visited in may 2016
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ancien musée à la gloire henver hoxha consacré a sa vie puis transformé en centre de média cette joli oeuvre vue de l extérieure est malheureusement laissé a l abandon on peut quand même grimpé juste en haut avec un bon souffle mais attention a la descente , spot original pour les photos
The opinions are very shared: avant-garde for the outdated for the others. In the renovation. This room is interesting all the same and deserves a visit.

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