Design teams sought for ‘architectural exemplar’ project in Albania

Butrint National Park_View of Butrint Lake with the Venetian Castle in the foreground_©Albanian-American Development Foundation

Source: Albanian-American Development Foundation

International competition launched for new visitor centre for nation’s top cultural attraction

An international design competition has been launched to find architects for a new visitor centre at Albania’s leading cultural attraction – Butrint National Park, which is a Unesco World Heritage Site.

Spectacularly located on the Ionian coastline, overlooking the Straits of Corfu, Butrint has an ancient Epirot theare, a Roman forum and an early Byzantine baptistry with a well-preserved mosaic pavement, as well as other monuments dating from the Hellenic, Angevin, Venetian and Ottoman periods.

Clients the Ministry of Culture of Albania, the Butrint Management Foundation, and the Albanian-American Development Foundation are seeking a “dedicated and gifted architectural team” to deliver a carbon-neutral visitor centre of up to 1,000sq m to interpret the site and serve as a gateway to the wider national park.

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