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Ashtu sic e kemi theksuar edhe ne postimet e meparme, pakon per shtyp e kemi pergatitur edhe ne gjuhen Shqipe. Duke qene se kjo pako i pershkruan gjerat me te rendesishme qe kane te bejne me zhvillimet e projektit, menduam qe eshte e nevojshme te jete edhe ne Shqip. 

Kete pako e kemi pergatitur ne dy versione. 

Pakon THEMELORE dhe pakon E PLOTE mund ti shkarkoni lehtesisht nga linqet e mesiperme dhe ato ne vijim.

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Ne pakon themelore jane:

• Pershkrimi i Projektit
• Prioritetet & Qellimet
• Detajet e Monografit
• Detajet e Dokumentarit
• Materialet Promovuese

Materialet Promovuese perbehen nga:

• 4 Foto te gjendjes Aktuale (web-res)
• 3 Foto-Montazhet e Transformimeve (web-res)
• 2 Postera (web-res)

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Kurse versioni me pakon e plote perfshine:

• Prioritetet & Qellimet
• Detajet e Monografit
• Detajet e Dokumemntarit
• Detajet e Web-Faqes
• Permbledhja e CM’se
• Biografia e Autoreve
• Materialet Promovuese

Materialet Promovuese ndahen ne:

• Pershkrimi i Projektit
• 10 Foto te Gjendjes Aktuale (print-res)
• 6 Foto Montazhe te Transformimeve (print-res)
• 6 Kartolina (print-res)
• 3 Posters (print-res)

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Per cdo lloj paqartesie apo per detaje te tjera mund te na kontaktoni ne:

mail@concrete-mushrooms.com.

As Gyler stated in the previous post, we are back in action! The Press Pack has arrived in two flavors: ESSENTIAL and COMPLETE. Both are in English, but the Albanian version will be available for download in the next days.

We hope this can make it easier to spread the word… Enjoy!

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The Essential Pack includes:

• Project Description
• Priorities & Goals
• Monograph Details
• Documentary Details
• Promotional Material

The Promotional Material is subdivided in:

• 4 Current State Photos (web-res)
• 3 Transformation Montages (web-res)
• 2 Posters (web-res)

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The Complete Pack includes:

• Priorities & Goals
• Monograph Details
• Documentary Details
• Website Details
• The Background of CM
• Authors’ Bio
• Promotional Material

The Promotional Material is subdivided in:

• Project Description
• 10 Current State Photos (print-res)
• 6 Transformation Montages (print-res)
• 6 Postcards (print-res)
• 3 Posters (print-res)

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If you decide to write about CM then we would love a heads-up! You can contact us at mail@concrete-mushrooms.com.

Cheers!

First of all we would like to apologize for the late updates and inform all the visitors and supporters of Concrete Mushrooms Project that we have finally presented the disseration on 22nd of December 2009.

Consequently,

1. The presentatation of the disseratation has been reviewed by Matteo Poli on ABITARE  – International Design Magazine.

2. We have produced a monograph, for which we are trying to find the best possible solution for publishing it. (if you have any suggestions regarding publishers, please contact us)

3. Recently, we have finalized the Press Pack (both English and Albanian version), which will be available online during this week.

4. And finally, due to some technical problems and large amount of other works to be done, the documentary is still being edited and hopefully will be available to watch by the beginning of March 2010.

Thank you very much for your understanding.

Keep an eye on our blog for the updates!!

We would like to let everyone know that due to the incredibly large amount of work we still have to complete by the date of the presentation (22nd of December), we will not be able to respond to any questions or comments you might have.  The blog will also go into hibernation until the presentation at which point expect a major update.

We apologize for the inconvenience; see you in January.

 Of course one thing I’ve seen plenty of are bunkers. Hoxha got it through his head that the outside world (American imperialists, Krushchevite revisionists or misguided Maoists) was about to invade Albania and to repel them he built concrete bunkers all over the country – 700,000 of them, one for every 4 Albanians! Some of them are big enough for a troop of soldiers but most are a tight squeeze for one person. They litter the whole country, particularly along the coast. The photo above is of a nicely situated coastal bunker.

via Tony Wheeler.

5) The Pillboxes. Take a bus ride through the Albanian countryside and one thing is guaranteed to draw your attention: the domed bunkers that litter the landscape. A legacy from Enver Hoxha’s reign (he was a little bit scared of outside invasion to say the least), it’s estimated there’s one pillbox for every four Albanians.

via 5 Reasons to Visit Albania |.

“The removal process is very costly. We could not afford such an expense,” Loci told the Associated Press, saying the army had only provided a tank to help the local initiative at Seman.

Not everyone wants to see them go.

 “The bunkers are always good attraction for foreigners.”

When built, the cost of a typical bunker was equivalent to five years of an average Albanian’s salary.

“You can’t get rid of the history and of the hard labor to build them,” Sadushi said.

via Communist-era bunkers cleared at Albanian resort; rest of the country will have a long wait.

“We had no place to live, but we had plenty of bunkers,” an Albanian spoke of the Communist era. There is still one bunker for every four Albanians today, and nobody seems to know what to do with all of them. An arms grant from China was enough to build them, but there does not seem to be enough money to dispose of these destitute reminders of a fallen political regime. So the people just live around them as they always have.

via Bunkers in Albania.

Tony Wheeler’s bad lands – Google Libri.

They also included the mass construction of bunkers, a programme which began in the early 1970s and expanded like an uncontrollable hysteria. Eventually, all except the most remote and mountainous areas of Albania were covered, and the country now looks like a desolate moon bombarded by large concrete mushrooms from outer space.

via Out of Albania: Invasion of the mushroom bunkers – Europe, World – The Independent.