Tirana’s football stadium, by Florentine architect Marco Casamonti, is signalled with a campanile & in the club’s red kit & yet invisible. A courtyard to an urban block. The tower a hotel, the upper parts offices & ground level a collar of shops, restaurants/bars & public space

Imprisoned for a crime he didn’t commit Fernand Pouillon broke out & with the help of friends fled to Algeria. Where, in exile & till pardoned by president Pompidou he drew on the tradition of low cost construction in stone to help greatly expand their affordable housing programme

GROUPWORK are proud of project architect winning AJ's Retrofit + Reuse Award

Doubling NIA without demolition, extending in mass timber to the side & top, super insulating with a lyrical & critical nod to nostalgia

From a distance, established & traditional

On inspection, flawed & melting into air