Downtown One, super apartment 2+1 for sale

• 146 m²
• 2 Beds
• 2 Baths
• 1 Living rooms
• Floor 21
• 75 Views
• 14/03/2023

Downtown One, super apartment 2+1 for sale

The apartment has a gross area of 146.31 m2 and a net area of 118.95 m2.

It is organized into a living and kitchen area, two bedrooms, a dressing room, a storage room, two bathrooms, and a balcony.

The orientation of the apartment is Southeast.

Downtown One is envisioned as an expression celebrating the progress of Albania, located in the center of Tirana on Bajram Curri Boulevard, south of the Lana River.

On its main facades, the vertical tower of 140 meters contains a series of homes and offices with cantilevers, forming a relief pattern on the building's surface.

Each home or office represents a village or city, so when viewed from afar, these cantilevers form an abstract map of Albania.

"Albania has come a long way. Ten years ago it was the poorest country in Europe. Now it is a country full of energy and ambition, working towards significant economic improvements. We want to express this with our building," says Winy Maas, co-founder of MVRDV.

With an area of 77,000 square meters, Downtown One will give a significant boost to the center of Tirana through a mix of apartments, shops, offices, and restaurants.

The 37-story tower does not run parallel to Bajram Curri Boulevard but is rotated on its plot so that its main facade faces Skanderbeg Square.

At its base is a park with local vegetation and an educational playground, while the interior of the building is divided into several layers: the ground floor consists of retail spaces and underground parking, the lower half of the tower is dedicated to office spaces, while the apartments occupy the 18 upper floors.

In both projects, the Rotterdam office seeks local architects and engineers as partners and works with them according to the latest BIM guidelines. Given the area's susceptibility to earthquakes, the works are carried out according to the strictest European construction standards and quality.

MVRDV designed Downtown One on behalf of Kastrati Construction, a company of Kastrati Group. Arup is overseeing the structure and MEP, with the Albanian firms Elteknik as Eurodeputy engineers and LEAL as structural engineers. The local partner and co-architect is the Albanian firm DEA Studio.

The apartment comes with a parking space.