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The center of Tirana is marked by a clear urban layout, but its recent growth spread in a large area around it without any order, structure, adequate services or meaningful public spaces.
The voids rather than the buildings become the catalysts of urban regeneration attracting public and private functions around a sequence of green spaces of high environmental quality.
In the project proposal the extension of the boulevard into a lively green promenade progressively opens up to the beautiful landscape of the hills across the Tirana river, while a set of new public buildings articulate its central portion, creating a new grand esplanade at the junction of the new proposed tram lines and a series of smaller squares in relationship with the existing urban fabric on the two sides of the new boulevard.
If the previous extension of the main axis aimed to enlarge the growing city structure outwards, the proposal for this portion of the city brings the landscape which surrounds Tirana into the heart of the city fabric, generating a new urban environment capable of hosting all the activities and needs of a fast- growing capital and to constitute a vital and loved backdrop for the daily lives of its citizens.
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