Hotel Dajti

The hotel DAJTI in Tirana was long regarded as the best hotel in Albania. It is located right on the main boulevard in the city center and is named after Tirana mountain DAJTI. The early 1940s by Italian architect Gherardo Bosio, head of the Central Building and Urbanistikamts of Tirana, planned building falls through the generous and embossed eclecticism of Fascist architecture cubic architecture today. Parts of the device are by renowned Italian architect and designer Gio Ponti. At the opening in April 1942 Bosio had already died. The hotel was considered one of the best houses in the Balkans. Since 2007, it is Grade II listed as a cultural monument.

History

The hotel was created as part of a reorganization of the Albanian capital by the Italians under the direction of Gherardo Bosio. E Kombit built with many government buildings Tirana Pracht Boulevard Bulevardi Deshmoret - At that time - based on the original idea of Armando Brasini. After the Second World War the building was used for a short time as the seat of the Communist government. For a long time it was the only hotel for foreign guests in Tirana. From the 1970s, the hotel DAJTI was withheld only state guests and business travelers - tourists had to stay at the Hotel Tirana. The hotel DAJTI was henceforth regarded as the best house in the country. Known and also a regular venue of individual scenes in literary works from Albania was the hotel bar.

Even after the collapse of the communist system, the hotel remained in state ownership. Lack investment and due to new competition in 1995 lost the house quickly in importance. Several attempts to sell the hotel failed. 2002, the hotel has ceased operations. The destroyed house was used off and on for art exhibitions. 2010 bought the Bank of Albania Banka e Shqipërisë the building for € 30 million. The Bank intends to use the building as their headquarters is renovated on Skanderbeg Square.

Building Description

On the ground floor was next to the entrance hall and the bar has a large ballroom. On the side facing away from the street side there is a terrace and a small, quiet garden. The three upper floors are located approximately 85 guest rooms - all with balconies. The upper floors are in structure and style considerably simpler held as the ornate, marble - clad ground floor, which is explained by the waning during the war years means.

" While the excessive basement with its vertical rows of windows and blocky massive profiled Travertinrahmungen still under the spell of tradition stands [ of Fascist architecture ], the set back patch, three-storey floor area dissolves into a grid of vertical and horizontal slices. In the recessed wall patio doors are cut frameless. Even conventional acts, the emphasis of the upper statements in the slightly projecting roof panel. "

In addition, the consideration towards the street front of the building has on the back of an L -shaped subsequent cultivation. The total area of the house is 2000 square feet.