Gate and Canopy at Astir Palace in Athens, Greece

The Gate and Canopy at Astir Palace  designed by sparch SAKELLARIDOU / PAPANIKOLAOU ARCHITECTS is located in  Athens, Greece.  Astir Palace is a luxury resort 25 km away from the centre of Athens. During its recent phase of renovation, we were asked to design an entrance Gate, and to upgrade the entrance of the Nafsika Hotel (the Canopy). In both cases the architects designed an interface. The Gate... 

Tags: Astir Palace, Athens, centre of Athens, Geology, Greece, Limestone, Marble, metal grids, Nafsika Hotel, Petrology, steel structure, Stone, white metal vertical grids

Piraeus Tower facade proposals in Athens, Greece

Piraeus Tower facade proposals is located in Athens, Greece. Presented here are two of the entries to GreekArchitects.gr run competition to design a fictional facade for the Piraeus Tower on Athens’ coastline. Situated in one of the Mediterranean’s largest ports (Piraeus), the 22-storey abandoned building dominates the skyline at 84m tall. Behind this constant flow of seawater is a fully... 

Tags: Athens, energy, Football in Greece, Geography of Greece, Greece, Greek mythology, Mediterranean, overall energy, PAPAIOANNOU & associates, Peripheries of Greece, Piraeus, Piraeus Prefecture, Piraeus Tower, technology-led proposal

The new Acropolis Museum in Athens, Greece

The new Acropolis Museum designed by Bernard Tschumi Architects is located in Athens, Greece. 300 metres south east of the Acropolis stands the site of the new Acropolis Museum, due to open on 20 June, exhibiting four thousand artifacts from ancient Athens. Directly linked to the city by the Athens Metro, the museum will provide ten times more space than the original museum on the Rock. Designed by... 

Tags: Acropolis, Acropolis Museum, Acropolis of Athens, Archaic Gallery, Athens, Bernard Tschumi, Bernard Tschumi Architects, Concrete, Greece, local architect, Michalis Photiadis, Parthenon, Parthenon Gallery, the Parthenon

Observatory concept store in Athens, Greece

Located in Athens, Greece, Observatory concept store was designed by BOBOTIS ARCHITECTS. The “Observatory” concept store in Kolonaki, 9 Solonos street was designed to house a unified commercial “lifestyle” activity of different fashion brands. Floor-by-floor arrangement of the different sectors is supported by stairways, both rolling and conventional, and semi transparent elevators.... 

Tags: Athens, Elevator, Greece

New Museum of Patra in Patra, Greece

New Museum of Patra that located in Patra, Greece, was designed by BOBOTIS ARCHITECTS. The assignment of the project was executed after an architectural competition that was organized by the Ministry of Culture. A nutshell of asymmetrical prismatic volumes was designed in order to accommodate the discoveries of a past culture. A modern composition which, through the irregular order, attempts to express... 

Tags: Achaea, Athens, Geography of Greece, Greece, Ministry of Culture, New Museum of Patra, Patra, Patras, Peripheries of Greece, the National, Tourism in Greece