There is a house in the middle of Tirana, gray and bulky like a tower, which has no bell and no post box. No ground floor and no address. Small windows and a massive iron door. It is inhabited, but the residents never leave this house. It is not nice but it remained the only standing as Mayor Edi Rama a few years ago the many stalls and cottages at the Lana, the small stream that flows through Tirana, was torn down to restore order. Everyone knows this house, but it has no name.
architecture is such a thing in Tirana. Much of the traditional buildings is no longer there because it was replaced by ugly high-rise buildings showing that mainly the communist dictator Enver Hoxha (pronounced Hodja) had built and thus significantly contributed to Tirana blight.
Edi Rama has in the past few years has made that has improved this. Not only because he Favellas at Lana was demolished - with the exception of the tower described - but also because he returned a little trick great effect: the former artist Rama was the ugliest houses simply paint colorful.
Otherwise there is no such thing as Wild West - better still: Wilder Southeast - the Albanian construction, with some droll results. In search of land in the much sought after inner city, the construction is not very squeamish. Since land is found where one had previously even none suspected.
such as a road. Since space is nice! So why not build a house on it? What should I say you did it. And not only once. A high-rise. In the middle of a through street. The course now is a dead end. From both sides.
Also plans are more like vague statements of intent. Since a construction office manager has already been faced with a ten-story house and stares in disbelief at the approved plan, which identifies only four floors.
Ha, I can almost see the foreman in front of me, as he is a bit embarrassed at the head hurts, and say, "Well, we were just as good on it and also had some material about and, uh ..." Before
Incidentally, it was customary to bring the construction of a living victim. Nowadays, focus is on Teddy. Are in the shell on steel lattice impaled and to discourage evil spirits. If you ask me it looks more as if the evil spirits were already there.
taste perversion, however, is the largest in the city center and goes back to Hoxha's account: a pyramid. She would become his mausoleum. You measure the damage to the roof of dictators in their relics, it is abundantly clear here, with whom it had to do the Albanians four decades: a megalomaniac crackpot. Paranoid to the small country because it has some 600,000 bunkers can pave. At strategic locations, of course. What does this mean for Albania: every few meters.
That leaves the gray house on Lana. The Vendetta House. Because there are sitting on death row. Not by the state but by warring clans. As long as they remain in this house, they may live. Get out of it but ... Life sentence of another kind The house is part of Albanian culture, stands in the center of Tirana in front of everyone and yet it stands alone. Isolated. If you Albanians asked about them shrug their shoulders: no one knows about it accurately. And it does not interest them too. Yet it is there. A mutated into stone anachronism.
I wonder how it looks in the house? How many may live in it? And how do they deal with each other when they live there, door to door? Maybe they get on well together. A common Fate welds people together often. Maybe they will even become friends over the years. While her family members out there still hate. Insurmountable hatred.
And not even Edi Rama can gloss over the color.
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