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CONSTRUCTION YEAR: 1988
SPACE TYPE: Museum, Other
PRESERVATION STATUS: Under-used
Pyramida was constructed in Tirana, after the death of communist leader Enver Hoxha. It was originally built as a museum for Hoxha and designed in 1988 by his daughter Pranvera Hoxha, his son-in-law Klement Kolaneci, Pirro Vaso and Vladimir Bregu. Th [...]
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CONSTRUCTION YEAR: 1966
SPACE TYPE: Power station
PRESERVATION STATUS: Abandoned
La città di Fier nasce alla fine del 1700, come un piccolo villaggio dedito all’agricoltura e alla pastorizia e non muta nella sua estensione fino agli anni immediatamente antecedenti alla seconda guerra mondiale. A questa data , infatti, il centr [...]
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CONSTRUCTION YEAR: 1970
SPACE TYPE: Bunker
PRESERVATION STATUS: Abandoned
Some bunkers built in Albania during 1970s. CONTRIBUTOR: Massimiliano Cafagna [...]
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PRESERVATION STATUS: Abandoned, Under-used
This is a night journey through Albania along those places that once were symbols of an oppressive regime and today are instead the emblem of the hard time Albania is having in dealing with its own past. In Albania the communist past is largely [...]
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SPACE TYPE: Bunker
PRESERVATION STATUS: Under-used
Bunkers dot the landscape of Albania. We drove from Greece to Lake Ohrid and documented the bunkers we encountered along the way. Some are in use as shelters for those tending crops or seemingly as beach huts on the Albanian shores of Lake Ohrid, [...]
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Abandoned coal mine in Perrenjas, close to Elbasan, built during the communist regime in 1958 [...]
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Once a european heavyweight class plant for copper, zinc, gold and silver now a Ironmongery cemetery [...]
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Many people worked all their life in a station that was crucial to the petroleum industry that was started by the Italians in 1919. The city of Kucova was in fact home of italian engineers and businessmen’s during that time [...]
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The Hotel was the place to be during the 60’s and further on, from food specialties and music events to espionage cases and all kinds of secret connections. It’s forgotten since a while now, after some art and music events inside the ruins too [...]
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One of the ex-guard places of the royal palace in Tirana. It was built from the fascist regime in 1939 [...]
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The dictatorship of Enver Hoxha deeply changed Albania, turning the formerly semi-feudal country into an industrialized economy, strictly following the soviet-stalinist industrial model. The Kombinat is the flagship of Albanian industry. These are [...]
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This place was a political prison, used during the dictatorship in Albania. It is located close to the village of Lezhe, in a mountainous and isolated region in the north of the country, which is still hard to reach. During the decades it was used [...]
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SPACE TYPE: Theatre, Cinema
PRESERVATION STATUS: Abandoned
Seats in a theatre and cinema inside the National Park of Tirana, built in 1978. Today the place is abandoned. L'anfiteatro si trova all'interno del parco cittadino "Parku i Madh" della capitale Albanese. Totalmente in abbandono e costruito i [...]
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During the forty-year leadership of Enver Hoxha of the People's Socialist Republic of Albania, over 700,000 bunkers were built in the country – one for every four inhabitants. The bunkers (Albanian: bunkerët) are still a ubiquitous sight in Albani [...]
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