Tirana Crevices

Tirana Crevices—a 160-meter-tall mixed-use tower in the heart of Albania's capital, designed as a civic landmark that integrates culture, housing, work, and leisure. The design features two elegant towers with crevice-like collective spaces, providing shared amenities at intermediate levels that act as public breaks in the vertical city. Designed in partnership with LOLA Landscape Architects, the ground floor is elevated, creating a public landscape of rocks and water that engages the surrounding neighborhood, while the building's façades are clad in locally sourced natural stone, with distinct materials highlighting the communal areas and reinforcing their programmatic significance.

The design introduces a composition of two elegant towers placed on a cityscale four-floor plinth, each structured as stacked blocks with equal proportions.These blocks are subtly shifted creating crevices —communal spaces that offer a civic and social dimension throughout the vertical structure.

To enhance public integration, the building is lifted from the ground, creating a generous landscape beneath it—an open space inspired by rocks and water, developed in collaboration with LOLA Landscape Architects. This gesture grounds the building in its context and invites the public into the site, making the project not only a residential development but also a new urban anchor.