Sky Tower (Tirana)

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Sky Tower
Vodafone Tower
Sky tower
Sky Tower without entrance area
Basic data
Place: Bllok, Tirana
Opening: 2003
Architectural style : Postmodern
Architect : Ilir Shijaku - Architecture & Urban Design Studio
Use / legal
Usage : Hotel, office and residential buildings
Technical specifications
Height : approx. 60 or 70 m
Floors : 17th
address
City: Tirana
Country: Albania

The Sky Tower ( Albanian  also  Kulla e Vodafonit , dt. Vodafone -Turm ) in Tirana is a high-rise building in the Albanian capital. It was built around the year 2000 and at that time was the tallest building in Albania with 17 floors. It is located in the city center in the nightlife district of Blloku , which used to be the residential area of ​​the communist nomenklatura .

The Sky Tower was built at a time when Tirana began to grow rapidly and numerous houses with more than ten floors were built in the city. Not quite finished in 2002, the restaurant was open the following year.

A hotel with 33 rooms is located on the first two floors . The floors above are used as office space or accommodate apartments. The famous writer Ismail Kadare has an apartment in the Sky Tower . Albania's first revolving restaurant is located in a roof structure , which is popular with tourists as it offers a good view of the city.

In the meantime, a new high-rise building of roughly the same height has been built at a short distance of a few meters.

Web links

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Commons : Sky Tower (Tirana)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sky Tower Business Center. In: Emporis. Retrieved January 27, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Sky Tower Business Center. In: SkyscraperPage.com. Retrieved January 27, 2015 .
  3. ↑ a b Çfarë të vizitoni në Tiranë. In: Tirana Online. Archived from the original on February 11, 2008 ; Retrieved January 29, 2015 (Albanian).
  4. ^ Andrea Bulleri: Tirana - Contemporaneità sospesa / Suspended Contemporaneity . Quodlibet, Macerata 2012, ISBN 978-88-7462-420-1 , pp. 98 .
  5. ↑ Albania's capital grows in height. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. October 30, 2002, accessed January 31, 2015 .
  6. ↑ bunker albania. In: sauseschritt. December 6, 2003, accessed January 31, 2015 .
  7. ↑ Aida Nako: Një histori pallati në Bllok dhe telefonata e tensionit mes Berishës e Kadaresë. In: Gazeta Dita. May 9, 2013, accessed January 27, 2015 (Albanian).
  8. ↑ Habjon Hasani: Kontrata Kadare (ose një dokument që u jep fund speculimeve). In: Gazeta Dita. May 6, 2014, accessed January 27, 2015 (Albanian).

Coordinates: 41 ° 19 ′ 20.5 ″  N , 19 ° 49 ′ 5 ″  E