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Holiday in an Albanian bunker

Posted Oct 26, 2009

Albania's concrete mushroom are WWII bunkers that dot the country's landscape, from the oceans, to the mountains, to the cemeteries. Now, a group wants to reclaim the bunkers and transform them into Eco-friendly hotels. Obviously.

There are reportedly over 750,000 abandoned concrete bunkers scattered throughout Albania, remnants of Communist dictator Enver Hoxha and his policies of paranoid xenophobia. Though some have been destroyed, most of the bunkers remain today. Graduate students Gyler Mydyti & Elian Stefa studing at Milan’s Politecnico di Milano have developed a plan called Concrete Mushrooms that would turn these structures by turning them into a network of habitable eco-hostels, cafés, gift shops and more.

Visit their blog at blog.concrete-mushrooms.com  to read how this project could support a burgeoning Albanian tourist trade and help create jobs throughout the country.

Source & Photo Credits: blog.concrete-mushrooms.com

 

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