Maritim Hotel Plaza Tirana, Office tower in Tirana, Albania
The Maritim Hotel Plaza Tirana, also known as the TID Tower, is a complex of three buildings by the Belgian firm 51N4E: an 85-metre tower of 24 floors that tapers from a rectangular to an oval plan, a five-storey glass block with a cantilevered roof forming an open-air galleria, and a concrete building whose hollowed quarter dome encloses the Kapllan Pasha Tomb. Concrete panels were cast on site.
Construction of the TID Tower began on 14 January 2007 for the Tirana International Development corporation, with the design by Belgian firm 51N4E. The facade was finished in May 2011, and the building was completed in May 2016, when the hotel gradually opened. At 85 metres it was Albania's tallest building until 2019, when a 112-metre hotel tower at the Air Albania Stadium surpassed it.
The complex is known as the TID Tower, after the Tirana International Development corporation that commissioned it. Its design by the Belgian firm 51N4E was shown at the 15th Venice Architecture Biennale in 2016. The hotel occupies the tower, while offices fill the lower building.
The complex sits between Rruga e Barrikadave, Rruga 28 Nëntori and Rruga Abdi Toptani, a short walk east of Skanderbeg Square. The Kapllan Pasha Tomb stands in the open-air galleria beneath the cantilevered roof, where the tower's base overhangs the protected grave. The hotel occupies the tower, with offices in the adjoining building.
The building's form transforms from an elliptical base to a rectangular upper section, creating varying patterns of natural light within. This architectural feature produces visual differences in how the space feels as you move through different floors.
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