The Heritage Protection Forum denounces the resurgent intervention in the restoration of one of the core buildings in the Gulf of Bazaar in Gjirokastra. From this city on the UNESCO list these two years have been fatal to the demolition of some homes, even though it has been said since 2013 that there will be a special strategy for revitalizing the museum city. On this reported situation earlier, the Forum is expected to open an exhibition of losses from the museum city
In the center of the museum area of the Gjirokastra fortress shortly before, the two-story house was in danger of collapse, even though it was restored. This sensitized the minister of the subsequent government to evaluate it as a poor job of her previous colleagues, who had been left in debt to the throat. While this area is absolutely more attractive to foreigners, it continues to have its downfall of characteristic homes, whether those of the first or the other category, which are protected by law.
The Heritage Protection Forum with an active life in denouncing these cases as well as the violations and abuses of monuments has published a photo a day ago from the museum center of Gjirokastra, the house now with a completely changed “face” calling it a “Monument of disfigurement” that Albania won!
Considered the core of Qafa e Pazarit, the Forum reacted to its restoration transformed into an “alla-Walt Disney” image thanks to a vague pre-war photograph, when Gjirokastra had not yet been defended and its historical landscape was not consolidated “. The forum has continued on this view, calling it the weaker expertise of the Institute of Monuments and the “sobbing ignorance of the Ministry of Culture that has deformed the building, for the purpose of” decorating “through a deep plastic surgery, the famous urban ensemble in Qafa Of the Bazaar, seriously mistaken in terms of proportions or construction technique, but especially the evaluation of the formal stylistic aspect. ”
The forum explained on this restoration intervention: “Scandalous facade discrepancies (at the same object) and decontextualization of intervention, in a delicate and enduring century, have caused an embarrassing situation resulting in a newly recreated Gjirokastra inherited. One page full of windows, out of the classical tradition reports, and the other existing almost blind (so only with an already accidental door) will be the new face of the most emblematic “Qafa” object. This unnecessary radical plastic surpasses even cosmetics outside the restorative criteria that M.K. Has long taken. The amateur view of this landscape will be the next landmark of the city, until a responsible commission eventually revamps the “fancy” building seriously.
These naive attempts by M.K. The National Council of Restoration was also recently dismissed by the presence of the authoritative experts in the respective fields, such as Emin Riza, Aleksander Meksi, Artan Shkreli, Afërdita Onuzi, Edlira Caushi or Artan Puto, who gave a resignation for dissatisfaction with the dissolution practices Monumental sites in Albania.
This mandate, as far as Gjirokastra is concerned, began alas with the permission of an abusive hotel set up on a hypothetical situation and ended up with a hypothetical and abusive volume re-creation on the UNESCO site; Meanwhile the backdrop of this policy was the unstoppable ruin of the stone city, the devastation that these four years had catastrophic proportions. ” The forum on this condition says it will soon prepare a photographic exhibition on the losses the city has undergone this period, expected to open as expressed in the first months after the formation of the new government as a “care” to the arrogance of the political cabinets That go and go.
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