TIRANA, June 25 /ATA/ – Tirana’s iconic pyramid building is being transformed into the region’s largest centre of digital technology and culture and a masterpiece of urban development in the Albanian capital.
Prime Minister Edi Rama posted Friday images showing the ongoing work to totally transform the pyramid into a new meeting point for young people and the future through the Youth Centre for Creative Technologies.
“Tirana’s pyramid about to be transformed into the region’s largest centre of digital technology,” PM Rama said, adding that the project was designed by the Dutch-architecture studio MVRDV.
The revitalization project, the latest in a series of investment drive aimed to boost tourism development in the Albanian capital and improve public service delivery to citizens, is designed to transform the Pyramid into a digital technology hub and independent cultural centre.
The Tirana Pyramid will be a transparent and full of light building to create the idea of a breathing space in Tirana.
The project includes the use of slabs of glass that will be inserted between the stairways on the building’s facade to help fill its central atrium with natural light. The project is also designed to create Tirana’s newest symbol and landmark and making the building accessible to everyone from all sides.
Several doorways will also be added at ground level to help the centre seem more “porous” and accessible.
Along with the building’s reconstruction project, implementation of the TUMO technologies model is of particular importance as a project that will turn Tirana into one of the largest technology hubs not only in the region.
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