A rundown brutalist symbol of Tirana’s communist legacy has been transformed by the architects of London’s disastrous Marble Arch Mound into a fun multispace venue that’s irreverent and liberating
‘Managed anarchy’: a section of the Tirana Pyramid has been kept for sliding down inometimes, symbols are simple. A vainglorious monument is built to commemorate a dictator, an opulent extravagance in a country where bread is rationed, whose people can barely eat. The regime is then overthrown, and after considerable struggles democracy is established.
Over time, the pyramid was taken over by multiple uses, including a radio station, a nightclub, conference centre and a base for Nato during the 1998-99 war in neighbouring Kosovo. The people of Tirana took up the risky sport of climbing to its summit and sliding down its slopes, and some looted its marble tiles for use on their own building projects. Homeless people and drug users sheltered there.
The boxes contain such things as classrooms and workshops, also cafes, startup spaces, a room on Airbnb and an outpost of the French embassy. About half are for the use of, a nonprofit educational institution that provides free after-school education to teenagers in new technologies. Two are tilted, to make small lecture theatres on the inside, with bleacher seating on the roof. The public can wander between and over the boxes, walk on their roofs, sit on their terraces.
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