BOLLES+WILSON Win Korça Master Plan Competition in Albania

On Thursday, July 16, the mayor of Korça, Albania and the international jury pronounced German architecture firm BOLLES+WILSON winner of the competition for the new Korça City Center Master Plan.

The international two-stage competition was decided in favor of the Münster-based office for its concept of “Scenographic Urbanism”, a choreographing of new buildings and public spaces, which pays close attention to the existing grains and potentials of this small but spatially complex city.

BOLLES+WILSON identified five zones for the revitalization of the 197,000 sqm city center. Each zone possessing its own unique character together they add up to a network of urbane public spaces.

The extensive spectrum of solutions filled out in visual vignettes and disciplined by precise plan geometries was chosen by the jury as the template for Korça’s future.

With this city center master plan competition, the municipality of Korça aims to foster the transformation, aesthetical melioration, functional attributes, and city regeneration respecting also those values that distinguish Korça from other cities.

The second prize went to JA - Joubert Architecture (Rotterdam, Netherlands). Further finalists were Studio Daniel Libeskind, Architects LLC (New York, USA), 51N4E bvba (Brussels, Belgium), and Domus Concept (Lisboa, Portugal).

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