The National Council for Territory and Water approved the construction permit for the Vlora Beach Urban Development project. The massive project envisages around 90 thousand square meters of construction that will transform the Vlora coast into a cocktail of colorful towers. The project was designed by the architectural studio Oppenheim on behalf of the company Feniks Konstruksion.
Located at a crossroads between the old town, the Soda Forest and a newly built marina, the complex covers an area of 20,465 square meters and adds 89,320 square meters of new construction. It was designed by studio Oppenheim.
According to Oppenheim, at the heart of the project is a central pedestrian promenade that stretches from the boulevard to the beach, conceived as a public pillar that connects architecture to the landscape and daily life to the city's larger rhythms.
According to the studio, this project is inspired by Albanian villages, with spontaneous, irregular structures formed by social proximity, reimagined here through a series of nuclei, or small-scale urban blocks.
These colorful buildings are organized around common spaces and stitched together by a corridor lined with cafes, squares, shops, and shaded public areas.
But intensive land use and the high density of concrete transform the neighborhood into a ghetto similar to Brazilian favelas, albeit with more colors and more concrete.
This project will be built by the company Feniks Konstruksion, which is owned by Ilir and Jaho Shyti. The latter has been publicly denounced by opposition leader Sali Berisha as involved in criminal activities and convicted by Italian courts.
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