"This proposed Oricon Tower introduces a new landmark for Tirana, Albania conceived through the collaboration of Pritzker Architecture Prize-winning Portuguese architect Eduardo Souto de Moura and Porto-based OODA. Designed as a gateway to the Albanian capital, the fifty-story tower stands at the threshold between the city's historic grid and its expanding western edge, where infrastructure, housing, and commerce meet. From the outset, the project is guided by proportion, structure, and material."
"Positioned beside the Bond Tower in Tirana, Albania, Oricon Tower by OODA and Eduardo Souto de Moura establishes a dialogue with its surroundings through calibrated massing and a deliberate treatment of the base. The lower levels form a porous interface with the street, opening toward the city through glazed facades and deep recesses that temper light and define thresholds. This base gives way to a vertical composition where repetition, shadow, and reflection lend a measured continuity to the facade."
Eduardo Souto de Moura and OODA propose a fifty-story Oricon Tower as a new landmark at Tirana's threshold between the historic grid and the expanding western edge. The project prioritizes proportion, structure, and material, combining Souto de Moura's disciplined formal approach with OODA's emphasis on adaptability and urban engagement. The tower aligns with the avenue's rhythm and anchors the skyline through geometry rather than scale. The lower levels create a porous interface with glazed facades and deep recesses that temper light and define thresholds. The facade develops a vertical composition of repetition, shadow, and reflection. The building modulates its expression by orientation, acting as an urban mediator between airport approach and inner-city arrival.
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