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Architects: Petreschi Achitects
- Area: 14240 m²
- Year: 2014
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Photographs:Courtesy of Petreschi Architects
Text description provided by the architects. The project, as the result of an international competition, consists of both the total renovation and restoration of the existing historic Central Bank of Albania, designed by Vittorio Ballio Morpurgo in 1934-36, and the construction of a new building. It includes the new Numismatic Museum, a new conference hall for 150 persons, offices, meetings room, an internal gallery, a roof garden and an underground four-levels parking. The project deals with one of the most relevant and intensely debated themes in contemporary architecture: that is, the construction of a new addition to an important existing historic building to which it connects not only to revitalize and enhance it, but also to favour its economic survival. The existing building is the historic witness of a particular period of the international and Italian culture of the Thirties. A period well known by historians and critics as Rationalism.
