Sixty top architecture firms from around the world have mooted 500 eye-catching projects across Albania, sparking fury and protests. Now they’re being celebrated in an 800-page tome that some are calling ‘a smoking gun’Last autumn, I was sitting with a prominent architect in New York, when their phone wouldn’t stop buzzing. They finally checked th…
‘Starchitects go home’: what’s the truth behind Albania’s astonishing building boom?
Sixty top architecture firms from around the world have mooted 500 eye-catching projects across Albania, sparking fury and protests. Now they’re being celebrated in an 800-page tome that some are calling ‘a smoking gun’Last autumn, I was sitting with a prominent architect in New York, when their phone wouldn’t stop buzzing. They finally checked th…
Originally reported by The Guardian Culture