Dutch architect MVRDV has won a design competition for a complex that will house a sports arena, a hotel and apartments all contained in a giant, 100m-diameter ball in Tirana,…

Danish architecture firm Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) has won a competition to design Faith Park, a 200,000-square-metre park on a hillside near Tirana, Albania. The project features nine pavilions, each…

A team of Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), landscape architect Lola, Royal Haskoning DHV and Petrit Halilaj, has won a competition to renovate the Selman Stërmasi Stadium in central Tirana,…

Portugal’s Ooda Architecture has unveiled its design for the mixed-use Bound Tower project: two linked structures that will add a distinctive silhouette to the skyline of Albania’s capital, Tirana. The…

Albania has been awarded loans worth €325m to fund the modernisation of a 120km rail link between Vorë in the centre of the country to Hani i Hotit in its…

New York firm Steven Holl Architects has won a design competition for Expo Albania, a convention centre and hotel in Tirana. The design for the centre was arrived at in…

A team led by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma & Associates (KKAA) has won a competition to design a visitor centre for Albania’s Butrint National Park, a Unesco World Heritage Site.…

Four teams led by architects from Japan, Finland, France and UK have been shortlisted to design a visitor centre for Butrint National Park, a Unesco World Heritage Site on Albania’s…