Liknon is a new space dedicated to Metaxa, a Greek liquor made since 1888 in the distillery founded by Spyros Metaxas. The center is located in a 100-year-old vineyard on the island of Samos. The Muscat grapevines spread beneath the town of Vourliote
To control the development of the Cyclades, the regulations demanded a building that would not alter the landscape. Taking the cave houses as reference, the bathrooms are buried with a sequence of cylindrical spaces open to the sky with large roofli
The ‘Helix,’ the new gallery carved into the earth, spirals around a sunken garden with an ancient olive tree at the center. This space creates a new entrance to the museum, and includes an auditorium, a cafeteria, and galleries for temporary exhibit
The entrance ramp occupies the central courtyard as visitors descend from street level to the ‘Rooms of Light’ below. Light is filtered through the coffered ceiling structure that floats overhead, naturally illuminating the interior...
The history of the museum, which is about burying, concealing, and revealing objects, inspires the new design. The ground is elevated to unveil a large subterranean space, a route of the senses defined by a gradient of light and warm, earthy textures
The principal project decisions are to design a ‘living garden’ based on the theme of archaeologies; to highlight the original colonnade facade; to extend the existing gardens; and to build a glass canopy as well as peripheral terraces...
The metal roof, a reinterpretation of the Greek agora, presides the garden and marks the start of the stoa, which functions as an axis through the park, the existing building, the historic courtyards, and the exhibition spaces...
David Chipperfield Architects Berlin has won the contest to revamp and enlarge the National Archaeological Museum in Athens, located in the capital's Exarcheia neighborhood, which possesses one of the world's major collections of prehistoric and anci
Como en los otros dos centros de la iniciativa, la configuración en alas longitudinales maximiza la apertura al exterior para garantizar luz y ventilación natural en las habitaciones y en las salas de operación. As in the initiative’s other two cente
An altogether new building replaces an obsolete clinic that has been operating since the 1950s and will have the space and means to provide more specialized medical departments. In a firm commitment to sustainability, Greek hospitals will have near-z
Replacing the scattered health infrastructure of the city, a cutting-edge health center appears in the woods on the outskirts, and patients will benefit from the natural surroundings as they heal. Komotini will be the first of three hospitals carried
Como parte del complejo de la Fundación Stavros Niarchos, la Ópera Nacional de Grecia se organiza siguiendo al pie de la letra los dictados de un ‘teatro a la italiana’ tradicional.
Located on an uninhabited island to the south of Athens, the project begins with the superposition of atmospheric, light, climate, geographic, topographic and programmatic variables, based on a theoretical and historic knowledge of the program. The
This project was the winning proposal in an international competition held in the year 2001. The new building is located in a strategic area of the city, only 300 hundred meters from the Athens Acropolis, in the historic district of Makryianni. Its l
Richard Ingersoll Los preámbulos de los Juegos Olímpicos de Atenas han sido de los más emocionantes en la historia del olimpismo, aunque no por los aspectos deportivos, sino por la incertidumbre acerca de la terminación en plazo de las obras y por la
Archaeologists fear the structural changes aimed to improve access to the Unesco site will “dramatically” change its form. Plans for a major renovation project to the western entrance of the Acropolis have met with strong opposition from archaeologis
Sir Antony Gormley’s, one of Britain’s foremost public artists, sculptures are a rare exception to tight rules on the uses of Greek antiquity. Euclid, the father of geometry, ordained that the centre of a circle must be a fixed point. The Greek
The work of the photographer and architect Yiorgis Yerolymbos (Paris, 1973) reflects a particular interest in landscape and how it is transformed by humans. He has spent ten years documenting the construction of the Cultural Center of the Stavros Nia
Felt during the Summer Olympic Games of 2006, the Greek crisis has been of such a magnitude as to make it seem frivolous to talk about its consequences it has had on architecture. But the crisis has indeed brought many architectural projects to a sto
The perpetual crisis of Greece is the real tragedy of a country incapable of escaping its destiny; a destiny which, as in plays by Aeschylus, some believe is imposed by the furious gods of the Troika (the financial Olympus), while others see as a res
Connected to politics at the start of his career, Doxiadis founded one of the first international urban planning firms and was the author of theories that anticipated globalization.
In partnership with Alexis Josic and Shadrach Woods, Georges Candilis undertook major social and urban projects in which modular rigor was put at the service of flexibility and adaptability.
(1919-1993) Born in Athens, where he died on September 17, Konstantinidis studied architecture in Munich. His humanistic training linked him to his native country's building traditions. He designed residential projects, with his houses in Crete stand
El término humanista aplicado a una ciudad hace referencia a un lugar en el que las trazas del pasado son aún intensas y evidentes; una ciudad en la que, en el curso de la historia, los esfuerzos intelectuales y físicos han configurado la Gestalt de
