Showing posts with label tunnel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tunnel. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 6, 2015

BunkArt - Conference Hall

Conference Room

"The aim of bourgeois-revisionist television is mass degeneration."

[caption id="attachment_2539" align="alignnone" width="660"]Conference Room Conference Room[/caption]

This conference room was quite spacious, considering that you are underground and you have to traverse seemingly endless tunnels. The colored domes on the scene are bunker replicas. The hall has been used this New Year's eve for a TV show. Acoustics are not bad and the temperature is constant. Air vents are fully restored and if you don't suffer from claustrophobia, you should totally visit BunkArt.

Saturday, January 3, 2015

BunkArt - Tunnels

BunkArt - Tunnels

Entrance to the bunker. After the 4-5 concrete and metallic doors, there is this short tunnel which leads to more tunnels. Between them there are stairs and you get the impression that you go like 5 floors deep underground. In reality, you don't go deep underground, you just walk along the hill at a descending angle. So, you enter at the tunnel at ground level and you go like 4-5 floors down and when you get out you are still at ground level. That's because the way to the entrance is in some sort of U shape, like walking in a large trench. It's just that the tunnel is way deep horizontally. Here is a 3D rendering of it. 


BunkArt - Tunnels

When you enter, the first apartments you encounter are those of Enver Hoxha, the highest figure and then officers and that of Mehmet Shehu, ex-PM who allegedly committed suicide sometime in 1981. The first question that comes in your mind is why are the most important figures at the beginning of the tunnel? In fact, that is the end of the tunnel but it is being used as an entrance so people won't have to go upwards while inside the tunnel. That means that if someone entered the tunnel from the real entrance, it would give enough time to the commanders to leave toward safety. Or, if there was no hope leaving, they would be the last men standing.


BunkArt - TunnelsBunkArt - Tunnels

Some tunnels are closed to the public, because the rooms are empty and there is nothing to show yet.

BunkArt - Tunnels BunkArt - Tunnels

Maybe there are other secret levels, who knows...

Sunday, December 28, 2014

Mineshaft

[caption id="attachment_2505" align="alignnone" width="660"]Tunnel Mineshaft[/caption]

This is part of the "Politically Persecuted Victims of Communism" memorial in Tirana. There is also a bunker and a piece from the Berlin Wall.

Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Tunnel

[caption id="attachment_2075" align="alignnone" width="660"]Tunnel Tunnel[/caption]

This tunnel is on the side of the previous cobbled street. Looks like some sort of extension but there is a sign at the entrance which says Dead End. It goes under the castle of Gjirokastra but the funny thing is that the pavement is cobbled while the walls and ceiling are made of cement. Perhaps a latter reconstruction during the communism era. There are anti-nuclear tunnels under the castle, with many facilities like conference room, cinema etc... Since July 2014 those are open to public. 

Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Files Train

[caption id="attachment_1740" align="alignnone" width="950"]Files Train Files Train[/caption]