• Pyramid of Tirana review – from tyrant’s monument to joyful symbol of modern Albania

    Pyramid of Tirana review – from tyrant’s monument to joyful symbol of modern Albania
    A rundown brutalist symbol of Tirana’s communist legacy has been transformed by the architects of London’s disastrous Marble Arch Mound into a fun multispace venue that’s irreverent and liberatingSometimes, symbols are simple. A vainglorious monument is built to commemorate a dictator, an opulent extravagance in a country where bread is rationed, whose people can barely eat. The regime is then overthrown, and after considerable struggles democracy is established. Citizens feel

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