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Architects: Schema Architecture & Engineering
- Area: 270 m²
- Year: 2013
Athens: The Latest Architecture and News
Big Smile Project / Schema Architecture & Engineering
House in Chalandri / MOB architects
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Architects: MOB architects
- Area: 615 m²
- Year: 2010
Uptown Residences / Iro Bertaki + Christina Loukopoulou + Costis Paniyiris
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Architects: Bertaki Loukopoulou Paniyiris
- Area: 6500 m²
- Year: 2012
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Professionals: Athanasiadis & Partners, Elxis SA, Greenways / Skordilis-Chanikian Ltd
Psychico House / Iro Bertaki + Christina Loukopoulou + Costis Paniyiris
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Architects: Bertaki Loukopoulou Paniyiris
- Area: 960 m²
- Year: 2011
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Professionals: blp architects, Helli Pangalou & Associates
Villa 191 / ISV architects
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Architects: ISV Architects
- Year: 2011
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Professionals: ISV construct
Athens - CIPHER CITY / Revolutions
What would happen if a structure could transform in real‐time? AA Athens Visiting School embarks on its’ third cycle to address issues of change, adaptation and interaction in the design of an enclosed volume. In this time of social, economic, and environmental uncertainty, it's a quality for the built environment to regard transformation as a way of practice.
Revolutions have occurred through architectural history and vary widely in terms of design methods and fabrication techniques. Focusing on inspiring natural form‐finding techniques, AA Athens VS works towards producing a large‐scale interactive prototype that alters in real‐time the perception of interior space.
Urban Stripes / Klab Architecture
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Architects: KLab architecture
- Year: 2013
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Professionals: Future Constructions
Ann Beha Architects Selected to Rehabilitate U.S. Embassy in Greece
Besting a shortlist of four, Ann Beha Architects has been selected by the Department of State’s Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations (OBO) to rehabilitate the U.S. Embassy in Athens’ chancery facility and campus. The mid-century facility, a protected architectural landmark, was originally designed by the famed Bauhaus architect Walter Gropius with the consulting architect Pericles A. Sakellarios.
Alaloum Board Game Café / Triopton Architects
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Architects: Triopton Architects
- Area: 160 m²
- Year: 2013
Offices and Stores Building in Athens / Potiropoulos D+L Architects
Four Firms Shortlisted to Refurbish US Embassy in Athens
The Department of State’s Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations (OBO) has shortlisted four design firms for the major rehabilitation of the Athens Chancery project. Protected as an architectural landmark, the mid-century modern building was originally designed by the famed Bauhaus architect Walter Gropius with the consulting architect Pericles A. Sakellarios.
Stone House In Anavissos / Whitebox Architects
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Architects: Whitebox Architects
- Year: 2013
Re-Think Athens Competition Entry / Nikiforidis-Cuomo Architects
The proposal, ‘Athens PubliCity: an urban neuron for a new city center’, for the Re-Think Athens competition organizes a public space processing system which develops and expands like an “urban neuron”. Designed by Nikiforidis-Cuomo Architects, their concept becomes an entire living framework aiming to re-activate and revitalize the urban body. The system acts as a familiar, habitable and dynamic framework able to “contain” events and situations of both collective and individual actions. More images and architects’ description after the break.
Coffee Shop / 314 Architecture Studio
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Architects: 314 Architecture Studio
- Area: 300 m²
- Year: 2013
Re-Think Athens Competition Entry / Harry C. Bougadellis & Associate Architects + Georges Batzios + Martha Schwartz Partners
Designed by the collaborative team composed of Harry C. Bougadellis & Associate Architects, Georges Batzios, and Martha Schwartz Partners, their proposal for the Re-Think Athens competition, which was named as the 2nd runner up, is an urban landscape element which will characterize the entire center of Athens. Titled 'Belvederes of Athens ', their design concept creates a high velocity urban corridor void of anchors or rest by structuring the street space into a series of terraces, expressive belvederes define individual urban spaces along this perpetual slope. More images and architects' description after the break.
Re-Think Athens Competition Entry / Gianmaria Socci Architecture + Also Known As Architects + Alkistis Thomidou
A multidisciplinary, international team led by Alkistis Thomidou, Chryssa Komantou & George Anagnostakis of Also Known As Architects, and Gianmaria Socci won a special mention for the "Rethink Athens: towards a new city center" competition with a proposal based upon a new practice of citizenship, one that would physically reshape public space and let people regain control over their city. The proposal provides an intense linear space that will awaken hibernating potential for activities to shape the surrounding territory that will be unburdened of the existing restrictions to constitute a field enriched with traces of the city’s memories. More images and architects' description after the break.
Re-Think Athens Competition Entry / ABM Arquitectos
The main idea of ABM Arquitectos in their Re-Think Athens proposal, which was a finalist in the competition, is to join the two parks at the end of the intervention (Pedion Areos and Lotos Likavitou) with a green mass that will flow all along the intervention. By doing this, the architects hope to bringvback the greenery to an area that used to be a green zone in the outside of the old Athens walls and creating a green corridor that joins the old Athens with the new Athens. More images and architects’ description after the break.
Re-Think Athens Winning Proposal / OKRA
OKRA, in collaboration with Mixst urbanism and Wageningen University, was recently announced as the winning team of the prestigious competition ReThink Athens towards a new city centre. Changing the heart of Athens into a true contemporary metropolitan city centre requires transformation of the city triangle into a lively part of the city. The project aims to strongly contribute to the change of Athens and improve the environment of the city plus activating the area economically. The team is supported by the Greek Architects of Studio 75 and Werner Sobek Green Technologies. More images and architects’ description after the break.