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Albania revels in freedom of colour chaos
During the planning for UniverCity, I promoted the idea of restricting the permitted materials and colours to create a more visually co-ordinated community...
Tirana Gets Real: A Backwater Capital Makes Its Own Brave New World
By Christopher P. Winner
Stray into one of Tirana’s many forgotten neighborhoods and you’ll come upon scales that vendors have placed on the pavement as if lying in wait for justice. But justice knows the drill. So does the world. Yet Tirana
Tirana may not be the new Prague but a new BA flight has put it on the map for adventurous travelers writes Paul Mansfield
At Le Caffe in Tirana the waiters wore smart red shirts and moved briskly round the coolly minimalist interior. Wall-to-ceiling windows looked out over an ornamental pool and beyond that the greenery of Parku Rinia...
Painting the town
How Edi Rama reinvented Albanian politics By Jane Kramer Edi Rama is the mayor of Tirana, Albania, and it’s safe to say that the Balkans have never produced a politician so beguiling. You
