A personal thank you goes to the Cultural Heritage Without Borders from Sweden for their continuous work on preserving Kosovo's cultural heritage. A list of their projects can be found here, and photos of their work are here.



At the end of May a competition will be closed for the submission of revitalization plans for the Prizren Nënkalaja (lit. Belowfortress) neighborhood and the historic city centre. Eleven Universities from all over Ex-Yu and Albania have been invited to participate.

It was a common practice during the Communist year for the old city centers to be replaced by department stores and other such cold architecture. During the war further damage was done to what Communists couldn't finish. Since then CHwB and other organizations have stepped in to save or rebuild some of that heritage. The Old Market in Gjakova is one of the results of this work. Traditional Albanian kulla architecture (tower houses) has also been revitalized in the villages of Dukagjin, western part of Kosovo, with most of the amenities of the modern world built in.