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Museum for Underwater Antiquities in Piraeus, Athens, Greece
Museum for Underwater Antiquities
11 Jul 2013
Design: Sane Architecture + DaSein

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The architectural concept is based on the intention to expose the antiquities recovered from the sea bed not as meaningless, dead relics, but as objects partially recovering the original significance. The duality of the architectural concept emphasizes the initial functional duality: a building for grain storage and a component of a transport network.

12 Mar 2013
Design: sparch SAKELLARIDOU / PAPANIKOLAOU ARCHITECTS

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DIVING (to the bottom of the sea) _ EMERGING (to knowledge)
Winner of the 4th Prize on the Architectural Competition “Redesign of the existing cereals’ stock house building facilities (SILO) and its surrounding open space into a Museum for Underwater Antiquities and Regeneration of part of the Piraeus Port Authority (OLP) Coastal Zone – transformation into an open public space for outdoor activities”. Τhe Museum becomes a spatial narrative based on experience; it awakens mind and fantasy, it brings fragments from the depths to the surface and transforms them to knowledge.

Faliro Pier Athens, Greece – Architecture Competition news
Design: Point Supreme Architects

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Faliro Pier Athens – 18 Oct 2012
1st Prize for Point Supreme Architects : the size and quality of the Athens coastline in combination with the city’s warm climate, constitute a higly valuable condition that is largely unexploited. The winning proposal uses the Faliro pier that is to be built in front of the new Stavros Niarchos Cultural Park, National Library and Opera complex, designed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop, to integrate sea-related activities into the daily city life.

Venice Biennale Greek Pavilion
Pavilion of Greece at the 13th International Architecture Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia

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Venice Biennale Greek Pavilion – 25 Aug 2012
Commissioners / Curators: Panos Dragonas, Anna Skiada
‘MADE IN ATHENS’
The Greek participation for the 13th International Architecture Exhibition of la Biennale di Venezia focuses on the particular dynamic of Athens during a period of economic meltdown.
Contemporary Athens is a city of strong contradictions: It is a city whose particular identity was shaped during post-World-War-II reconstruction. A city which has at its disposal an exceptionally talented cadre of young architects, international in orientation, well educated and with a wealth of professional experience.

Recent Athens Building Designs

Placebo Pharmacy, Glyfada, Athens
Klab Architecture / Konstantinos Labrinopoulos

photograph : P. Kokkinias
Placebo Pharmacy
The design process for this large (600m2) supralocal pharmacy forced us to shift our viewpoint and come up with a virtual building—a placebo pharmacy. The octagonal shape of the existing structure was re-formed into a cylinder in order to create a spiral which seeks to converse with the rapid motion on Vouliagmenis Avenue, the urban artery on which the building stands.

Marble Mural
Point Supreme Architects

photograph : Yannis Drakoulidis
Marble Mural Athens
The piece is a hymn to marble; a 10 x 2m wall consisting of 7 marble pieces of different origin, natural history, color, texture and image. These marble pieces are treated with various traditional and digital techniques of workmanship that mingle with the inherent material narrations; holes, hidden and visible cuts, two and three dimensional relief, digital and handmade print, imagery from the past and the future, light.