TIRANA, June 18/ATA/- Tirana’s Skanderbeg Square is the winner of the European Award for Architectural Heritage Intervention (AADIPA).
It was no easy competition of 239 projects from different countries of the world.
The jury appreciated Skanderbeg Square as a reflection of complexity and history of Albania.
The winners of the 4th AADIPA were announced by the jury at the COAC (Association of Architects of Catalonia) headquarters in Barcelona.
The Skanderbeg square competed in category B, Exterior Spaces.
The jury gave the top prize to Skanderbeg Square in Tirana by 51N4E, Anri Sala, iRI and Plant en Houtgoed, focusing in particular on the freedom with which the design team addressed the challenge of working on an extremely delicate site, a symbol of its key historical and political context./a.a/ /a.g/p.s./
