© Hidden Exposition

A few months ago, we featured a conceptual house designed by group of young Greek architects, Dimos Moysiadis + Ioannis Oikonomou+ Xaris Tsitsikas. The three, plus Kostas Panopoulos and Grigoris Vegliris,  have just shared their latest conceptual project, a façade renovation of an old public theater in Corfu and a new urban plan for the adjacent square.  The intent was to re-establish the public theater as a city landmark by emphasizing its past as well as its attributes as a piece of contemporary architecture.

More images and more about the project after the break. read more »

Courtesy of Oiio

Athens-based Oiio Architecture Office shared with us their project ‘Architecture of Earth’, a library/cultural space in Ioannina for which they received first prize in a competition. More images and architect’s description after the break. read more »

The upcoming 11 Architectural Festival Towns will take place between September 20 and October 3 in Corfu Island, Greece. It’s an open-air event, that gathers up to 500-700 young architects from Russia and abroad. The aim of every team is to create an architectural installation accordingly the common theme. For more information, go to the festival’s official website.

© Anthi Grapsa & Konstantinos Chalaris

London based architects Anthi Grapsa and Konstantinos Chalaris shared with us their entry for the Piraeus Tower 2010 Competition, for which they gained commendation.

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Petra Architects in collaboration with Papaioannou + Associates shared with us their proposal for the Piraeus Tower 2010 Competition in Greece. More images and architect’s description after the break. read more »

Concurrently to the organization of Sun&Shadow Expo 2010, KORMOS Technical Editions LTD company organizes the youth competition Loving Outdoors. Subject of the competition is: three-dimension construction for exterior space, consisted of a seat, a table and a shading device. Students and young people up to 32 years old can take part.

The submission of candidates’ applications begins on the July 1st 2010 and expires on the 30th November 2010. For more information go to the competition’s official website.

Mekano, a team of young Egyptian architects shared with us their proposal for the Piraeus Tower 2010 Competition, for which they received an honorable mention. More images and architect’s description after the break. read more »

© Aristide Antonas

We had published before several projects by Greek architect Aristide Antonas. Now, he’s sharing with us his project for the Piraeus Tower 2010 competition, that was looking for a fictional new facade of the Piraeus Tower.

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© Yannis Drakoulidis + Point Supreme Architects

If you quickly glance at this first image of Point Supreme Architects’ newest installation, you may being wondering what that blue volume is or even wondering what could happen in that small space. But, if you’re wondering what it is made of, well, that question yields the most interesting answer. The architects teamed with two visual artists, a musician and a performance artist/choreographer to design this installation and performance piece made 100% from blue foam insulation panels!

More information about this installation and more images of the amazing foam work after the break. read more »

© Babis Louizidis

Architects: Klab architecture
Location: Plateia Theatrou, Psiri, Athens, Greece
Design team: Konstantinos Labrinopoulos, Miltos Farmakis
Area: 150m2
Completion date: 2007
photos: Babis Louizidis

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© Courtesy of Bernard Tschumi Architects

Architects: Bernard Tschumi Architects
Location: Athens, Greece
Associate Architect: ARSY
Bernard Tschumi Architects Team: Bernard Tschumi; Architect and Lead Designer Joel Rutten; Project Architect, Adam Dayem, Aristotelis Dimitrakopoulos, Jane Kim, Eva Sopeoglou, Kim Starr, Anne Save de Beaurecueil, Jonathan Chace, Robert Holton, Valentin Bontjes van Beek, Liz Kim, Daniel Holguin, Kriti Siderakis, Michaela Metcalfe, Justin Moore, Joel Aviles, Georgia Papadavid, Allis Chee, Thomas Goodwill, Véronique Descharrières, Christina Devizzi
ARSY Team: Michael Photiadis; Principal, George Kriparakos, Nikos Balkalbassis, Philippos Photiadis, Jaimie Peel, Niki Plevri, Maria Sarafidou, Makis Grivas, Elena Voutsina, Manoulis Economou, Anastassia Gianou, Miltiadis Lazaridis, Dimitris Kosmas
Structure: ADK and ARUP
Mechanical and Electrical: MMB Study Group S.A. and ARUP
Civil: Michanniki Geostatiki and ARUP
Acoustics: Theodore Timagenis
Lighting: ARUP, London
General Contractor: Aktor
Project Area: 21,000 sqm
Project Year: 2003-2009
Photographs: Courtesy of Bernard Tschumi Architects

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We’ve been featuring some really interesting projects from Greece (check the projects by Aristides Antonas here), and here’s a seminar and workshop that certainly looks great.

Ahylo lab in collaboration with supermanoeuvre and kokkugia are pleased to announce the launch of the apomechanes 2010 studio (seminar and workshop) to be held in Athens this summer, from the 19th of July till the 6th of August.

Apomechanes is an intensive 3-week computational design studio held each summer in Athens, Greece. The studio is devoted to furthering techniques and concepts of algorithmic processes as means for design and fabrication. Apomechanes brings together individuals from diverse backgrounds and fields of study to discuss, exchange and collaborate on projects that investigate modes of algorithmic and machinic processes in architectural design.

You can see images of the projects from Apomechanes 2009 after the break, along with more information of the event. read more »

The EAAE Subgroup on Architectural Theory, following its last workshop in Fribourg (CH) where the always ambivalent relation between technical practice, representation and theory has been challenged, focuses now on a topic that is of that constellation; the relations between digital/material and depth/surface.

There has been an important break in the polarity between depth and surface caused in contemporary architecture by the emergence of a new digital materiality and tactility. On a technical level, this is due to techniques of fabrication linking the design and representation process directly with fabrication, whereas in the level of perception and representation, it follows the aftermath of folding in architecture and its claim for a new continuity based on the abolishment of the traditional spatial dipoles (interior/exterior, up/down et.al.).

For more information on the call for papers submission visit the event’s official website.

© Elias Handelis

Architects: mX Architecture / Emmanuel Choupis
Location: Tinos, Greece
Project Managers: Romain Braida and Maud Henriot
Civil Engineer: Nikiforos Delasoudas
Site Area: 210 sqm
Project Area: 110 sqm
Budget: $300,000 Euro
Project Year: 2008-2009
Photographs: Elias Handelis

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© .27 Architects

Architects: .27 Architects
Location: Thessaloniki, Greece
Directors in Charge: Stelina Tsifti, Panagiotis Chatzitsakyris
Project Area: 100 sqm
Project Year: 2009
Photographs: .27 architects

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For their latest hotel design in Kefalonia, Greece, Divercity Architects intended to blend this contemporary hotel with the vernacular architecture of the surroundings.  Due to the site conditions, the hotel conforms to the sloping topology of the steep hill it rests on and then breaks into four distinct strands that divide the site into north and south plots.   While fifteen luxury villas occupy the northern plot,  the southern portion contains gardens and areas for relaxation.  The facade is clad in operable perforated wooden panels that both serve to separate and extend the private living space into the outdoors.

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Architects: decaARCHITECTURE
Location: Antiparos, Greece
Project Team: Alexandros Vaitsos, Carlos Loperena, Elena Zabeli, Kyle Gudsell, Katerina Chryssanthopoulou
Owner: Oliaros AE (Antiparos Design Projects)
Structural Engineers: KYMA / Manos Kyriazis
Mechanical Engineers: TEKEM / George Kavoulakos
Contractor: Kataskevastiki Topometriki Parou ABETE / Nikos Kaggelis
Landscape Designers: Doxiadis+ / Thomas Doxiadis
Project Area: 237 sqm
Project Year: 2008
Photographs: Erieta Attali, Ed Reeve, decaARCHITECTURE

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Architects: KLab architecture
Location: Ekali, Athens, Greece
Project Area: 1,050 sqm
Project year: 2006-2009
Photographs: KLab architecture

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OLIAROS, a young property development company, called architects up to 35 years old to submit proposals for the construction of an affordable student housing complex in Kerameikos and Metaxourgeio (KM), an area in the historic centre of Athens, Greece.

Parasite Studio have shared with us their proposal for the competition. Their project, “Agora”, consists in complex living modules. Each module comprises a common space for six students and three bedrooms. Full architect’s description and more images after the break. read more »