Building a National Image: Architecture, Capital, and Political Power
Culture Index
Score Breakdown
Relevance
14/25
Freshness
24/25
Authority
18/20
Brand Signal
6/15
Depth
6/15
5-Axis Cultural Radar
The Pyramid of Tirana opened as a museum to Enver Hoxha in October 1988, three years after his death and three years before the regime collapsed. In the decades that followed, it served as a radio station, a conference venue, a nightclub, and a base for NATO during the Kosovo war. In 2023, MVRDV reopened it as a park and technology school, adding steps to the façades so that the building could be
