All cities in Kosovo have identically built sports halls. Designed by Miroslav Čočanović, Pristina’s sports hall was inaugurated in 1976, benefiting the city’s residents and sports community. Constructed in line with other important architectural projects of the ‘70s, it was named May 25 to honor the National Yugoslav Youth Day, which was also Marshall Tito’s birthday. The political history of the site is rich: Due to the revocation of Kosovo’s autonomy in Yugoslavia in 1989, Albanian students locked themselves inside in solidarity with the Trepça miners’ strike, turning the sports terrain into a terrain of political resistance. Today, the sports hall is renamed October 1 to commemorate the students protests held on October 1, 1997 to demand the right to return to university facilities, a right violated by the Milosević regime.