Comments on: Tirana Rocks by MVRDV

By: eno

eno — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:04:37 +0000

the architecture is very stylish but what i need to say is that almost all the city is seeming as a concrete circuit..now they wanna stone also maybe the only green part of Tirana ..they would be better find another place

By: quasimoto

quasimoto — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:38:33 +0000

this really rocks

By: kle

kle — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 15:53:21 +0000

PS. The usual way it works here is that the buildings you see as blocks, will not be necessarily projected by Mvrdv, but by other cheaper architecture studios. The concern is to project buildings respecting those volumes/shapes determined by the plan of Mvrdv.

That’s why the renderings have no windows. Because windows do not matter.

Now can you imagine the mess that other cheap architects and constructors will cause by building those extravagant and nearly-impossible (economically) structures, in a country where law is not strong enough to forbid abuses in speculative buildings and where the major said on TV : The winner is MVRDV but while building, we will change the project a bit…That’s horror. Im sure it will change for bad…So if you see some trees in the renderings, forget them…And if you see a beach there, it’s ridiculous..It wont be done, because nobody goes to swim in that lake from decades.

By: kle

kle — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 15:42:06 +0000

Sorry, I see them both now…Servers playing tricks..

By: kle

kle — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 15:40:16 +0000

I can’t see my earlier post here.

What’s the problem with alternative ways of thinking ?

By: Henry

Henry — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 20:30:29 +0000

Well in fact this is just a Masterplan, in reality it won’t be like this, the construction will start in 2010, MVRDV has a lot of time to project the windows…etc. A possible view of this project is this:http://bustler.net/index.php/article/tirana_rocks_mvrdv_wins_lakeside_competition_in_albania/

This is part of a plan for Tirana’s rehabilitation and it’s a big investment.

By: noei

noei — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 10:17:22 +0000

It’s not the problem on the renders, this are just to show an idea of the project.But Tirana doesn’t need a second downtown with some “rocks”
that will destroy the only grean part of the city that is still intakt or
some part of it.And the funi thing is that Tirana has 6% grean and this project will destroy 1.7%.
Which city in the world has less than 5% vegetation ?

By: Arli

Arli — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 21:04:48 +0000

The greenest part of tirana it’s going to be a mass of rocks … a winy mass of rocks …
People in there deserve it !

By: Kubrick

Kubrick — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 18:55:35 +0000

Pity the poor, innocent Albanians…”Forward men, into the past!” Anyway, Heraclites was wrong, you can in fact step into the same river twice -or three or four times…
Another case in which a moisturized, metrosexual jury premiates yet another big yawner.

By: Stefan

Stefan — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 12:41:55 +0000

fallen stones in tirana? not the statement i would liek to seen built over there… the comments here are a bit harsh but this project looks very “fastfood” like… just throw a couple of blocks on the site and call it intereesting space and philosophical way to design? nooo… to fast foreward for me… i can agree on some of the “fuck context” projects but then they have to be strong on the content site! blocks as houses are not that strong…