Expansion of accommodation capacity of the Hotel Tirana International and Hotel tower destination and multifunctional shopping mall.

Don Café has  a unique conceptual and visual concept expected to distinguish it from other traditional coffee bars by giving it a modern image. The idea derives from sack filled with coffee grains. The walls of the bar are organically shaped and colored like coffee sack made up of “Plywood” type of wood, whereby the pillars in between are coated with textile coffee sacks. Tables and hanging chandeliers represent the coffee grains lined up asymmetrically in order to generate the impression of being inside a coffee sack. The seat has a double function; decorative and functional.  Its organic shape consists the most dominant part of the premise enabling a unique feeling of sitting unlike any other one comes across in everyday life. The bar shape plays an important role too in the functioning of the bar by generating diversities in sorts of coffees and the taste on the menu card. The outer perimeter is coated with a sort of organic layer yielded by the 4 cm plywood parts and reflects/depicts the dynamism of the bar itself. For the purposes of generating the designed organic shape, the whole plywood material was shaped in CNC machine separately in parts and ultimately assembled.  Each of the plywood element was designed individually. This because for the creation of an entire organic shape, each of the element needs to be designed separately. The entire premise consists of 1365 pieces of plywood, each dimensioned, designed, cut and assembled.

Prishtina Grand Mosque project designed by UFV Mimarlik studio from Turkey in 2015 is the biggest to be constructed mosque in Kosovo. It is a 40.000 square meters building which consists of the religious environments as well as the commercial are with shops and the three story underground parking. The ottoman style has often been criticized by designers and citizens, considering the fact that competitors for the winning projects included Zaha Hadid and other famous architects.

"The city of Tirana has been the object of a general urban renewal plan for a number of years. The competition for this tower, located in the city center, came out of an earlier design by the French “Architecture Studio”, winner of an international competition put on by the municipality. The proposal in the master plan involved building ten 85-meter high private towers, and ten competitions by invitation were put on to design them. The tower that Archea proposed has 6 levels of underground parking, 4 retail levels, 7 office levels, 8 residential levels and a hotel with a scenic view. The design fits into the context, taking on the lines of the surrounding city for the principle direction of its composition; the division of the project into four parts reflects the 1920s urban design by Armando Brasini based on the city’s foundation on the cardus and decumanus. The tower takes a minimal amount of public space on the ground through a well-considered narrowing of the structure at the base, and symmetrically, a clear widening of the peak section, giving the total a marked sculptural effect. The movement of the tower’s forms recalls that of the historic Italian landscape, merging them with deeply-rooted local traditions in the design of the façade surfaces." (Source)