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Oliver Wainwright
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- 1Albania's building boom draws global architects and local anger▼‘Starchitects go home’: what’s the truth behind Albania’s astonishing building boom? By Oliver Wainwright Sixty top arch
Around sixty leading international architecture firms have proposed some 500 eye-catching projects across Albania, part of an unprecedented construction boom championed by the government. Oliver Wainwright examines the phenomenon, noting that the flood of foreign-designed towers and resorts has sparked fury and street protests among Albanians, even as the schemes are celebrated in official exhibitions.