Maritim Plaza Tirana Explained

Maritim Plaza Tirana
Start Date:2009
Completion Date:2015
Building Type:work and living
Location:Rruga 28 Nëntori 18, 1001 Tirana, Albania
Coordinates:41.3278°N 19.8215°W
Top Floor:851NaN1
Floor Count:24 (plus 4 for parking garage below)[1]
Elevator Count:4

Maritim Plaza Tirana is a luxury hotel in Tirana, Albania owned by German Maritim hotel chain. It is located on 28 Nëntori Street, near the Skanderbeg Square.

The hotel building is also known as the TID Tower, after the Tirana International Development corporation that originally commissioned its construction. The design comes from Belgian architectural firm 51N4E, and construction started on 14 January 2007.[2] "The building is designed as a constellation of 3 singular buildings: the tower of 85 m height coming down to the ground, a 5 story glass building with a cantilevering roof that creates a public open air galleria; and a concrete building with a hollowed out quarter dome, embracing the tomb of Suleiman Pasha [sic; actually the [[Kapllan Pasha Tomb]]]."[3] The central tower stands at tall, and consists of 24 floors.[4] The TID Tower's architectural design is notable for its sensitive incorporation of the Kapllan Pasha Tomb, tucked in a void in one of the complex’s low-slung concrete buildings, and for its use of concrete panels cast on-site.[5] [6] The building design was featured in the 15th Venice Architecture Biennale in 2016.[7]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: TID Tower . Fundació Mies van der Rohe . 20 September 2023.
  2. Web site: 2007-01-14. Start construction TID Tower Tirana. 2010-11-12. 51n4e.
  3. Web site: EUMiesAward. 2021-04-17. miesarch.com.
  4. Web site: Albania's real estate market revolutionised by TID Tower . Offplanpropertyexchange.com . 2009-02-09 . 2010-11-12 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20101217092017/http://www.offplanpropertyexchange.com/news/2009/02/09/albanias-real-estate-market-revolutionised-tid-tower/742 . 2010-12-17 .
  5. Anagnost. Adrian. January 25, 2017. Craft and Conquest: The 15th Venice Architecture Biennale, May 28-November 27, 2016. Nonsite.
  6. Book: Swinnen, Peter, and Johan Anrys. "Squaring the Circle: Building a Tower the Tirana Way," in Re-Inventing Construction, edited by Ilka & Andreas Ruby. Ruby Press. 2010. 978-3-9813436-2-5. Berlin. 195.
  7. Web site: TID Tower - The Skyscraper Center. 2021-09-17. www.skyscrapercenter.com.