<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/07ee537f-35b1-46b5-aeaf-e082a385103d/4B51D576-144E-4D6C-80FE-82B462CDEE54/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/10/21/concrete-mushrooms-transforming-abandoned-bunkers-into-eco-hostels/" href="http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/10/21/concrete-mushrooms-transforming-abandoned-bunkers-into-eco-hostels/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.inhabitat.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/10/21/concrete-mushrooms-transforming-abandoned-bunkers-into-eco-hostels/"><H2 id="post-67775"><A title="Permanent Link to Concrete Mushrooms: Transforming Abandoned Bunkers Into Eco Hostels" rel="bookmark" href="http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/10/21/concrete-mushrooms-transforming-abandoned-bunkers-into-eco-hostels/">Concrete Mushrooms: Transforming Abandoned Bunkers Into Eco Hostels</A></H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/10/21/concrete-mushrooms-transforming-abandoned-bunkers-into-eco-hostels/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.inhabitat.com/img/31F5044C-0403-40E2-A9C6-771B112209C4" alt="sustainable design, green design, concrete mushrooms, renovation, green building, albania, adaptive" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/10/21/concrete-mushrooms-transforming-abandoned-bunkers-into-eco-hostels/"><P>There are reportedly over 750,000 abandoned concrete bunkers scattered throughout Albania, remnants of Communist dictator Enver Hoxha and his policies of paranoid xenophobia. Now graduate students <A href="http://blog.concrete-mushrooms.com/?page_id=97">Gyler Mydyti & Elian Stefa</A> have developed a plan called <A href="http://blog.concrete-mushrooms.com/?page_id=112">Concrete Mushrooms</A> that would ‘invert the meaning’ of these structures by turning them into a network of habitable eco-hostels, cafés, gift shops and more.</P></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://blog.concrete-mushrooms.com/?page_id=112" href="http://blog.concrete-mushrooms.com/?page_id=112" style="font-size: 11px;">blog.concrete-mushrooms.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.concrete-mushrooms.com/?page_id=112"><H2 class="art-PostHeaderIcon-wrapper"> <IMG width="12" height="12" alt="" src="http://blog.concrete-mushrooms.com/wp-content/themes/concretemushrooms/images/PostHeaderIcon.png" /> <SPAN class="art-PostHeader"><A title="Permanent Link to The Project" rel="bookmark" href="http://blog.concrete-mushrooms.com/?page_id=112"> The Project</A></SPAN> </H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.concrete-mushrooms.com/?page_id=112"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/blog.concrete-mushrooms.com/img/54777D97-BBBB-451D-B1D8-6907EE7756A9" alt="concrete-mushrooms" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.concrete-mushrooms.com/?page_id=112">“Concrete Mushrooms” is a project initiated as an idea for research by two Albanian graduate students at Politecnico di Milano, and the purpose was to emphasize the appreciable assets of Albania such as bunkers which are vast in number and across all the rich and beautiful landscape of Albania. </blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.cafebabel.co.uk/article/30612/albania-beach-bunkers-tourism-positive-image-eu.html" href="http://www.cafebabel.co.uk/article/30612/albania-beach-bunkers-tourism-positive-image-eu.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.cafebabel.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cafebabel.co.uk/article/30612/albania-beach-bunkers-tourism-positive-image-eu.html"><H1>Albania: polit-tourism between coves and concrete beach bunkers</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cafebabel.co.uk/article/30612/albania-beach-bunkers-tourism-positive-image-eu.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.cafebabel.co.uk/img/F7552E3A-683A-481A-8B1C-09D2A8F638ED" alt="Albania: polit-tourism between coves and concrete beach bunkers" /></div></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; 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