Moda Bagno-interni Store / k-studio

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Architects: k-studio
Location: Alimou Street, Athens, Greece
Interior Design: Moda Bagno Design Team
Structural Engineer: Evel Dimopoulos
Project Year: 2011
Project Area: 1,000 sqm
Photographs: Yiorgos Kordakis

Urban Lofts / Charis Gkikas & Evaggelia Filtsou

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Architect: Charis Gkikas & Evaggelia Filtsou
Location: , , Greece
Developer: Alpha Land Developers 
Construction: Alpha Land Developers
Project Team: George Stamatakis , Charis Gkikas
Interior Designer: Theano Potamianou-Ravazoula
Project Area: 1.200 sqm
Project Year: 2011
Photographs: Vangelis Paterakis

Residence in Aghia Paraskevi / Architects Unfolding + Kiki Kelesidou

 

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Architects: Architects Unfolding +
Location: , Greece
Project Year: 2009
Project Area: 195.00 sqm
Photographs: Stathis Mamalakis

The Greek Debt Crisis and Historical Landmarks

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Any trip to Athens, would not be complete without a visit to the Acropolis, the purest remaining form of what the Greeks thought architecture should be. And yet, if you stopped by a few weeks ago, you might have been surprised to find large banners proclaiming support for a communist trade union adorning the Acropolis hill. These banners are the most visible and literal signs of the Greek crisis affecting the historic landmarks in the country, but they are not the ones doing the most damage. That honor goes to the drop in tourism that Greece has experienced since the beginning of the global recession and runs through the country’s fiscal problems to the present. More on how the crisis is affecting historical landmarks after the break.

Natura Home Showroom / Lantavos Projects

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Architects: Lantavos Projects
Location: Athens,
Project Year: 2010
Project Area: 270.00 sqm
Photographs: Vice Versa

Update: The Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center / Renzo Piano Building Workshop, architects

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Today we are providing our ArchDaily readers with an update for the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC) by Renzo Piano Building Workshop, architects.  The sustainable arts, education, and recreation complex aims to enrich the everyday lives of its surrounding community and attract millions of visitors from around the world. As we previously shared the project will be financed by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation and has an anticipated 2015 completion date.

Nikis Square / Dimos Moysiadis + Xaris Tsitsikas

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Young Greek architects Dimos Moysiadis and Xaris Tsitsikas, have just shared their latest project, an architecture competition entry for the redesign of the central square in Kozani, Greece. The proposal is focusing on a redesign of the public space for hosting various social activities while composing an attractive pole for gathering people of all ages 24 hours a day. The proposed design philosophy was developed by considering the square as the kernel of social everyday life. For additional images and a brief description, follow after the break.

Landscapes of Cohabitation / doxiadis+

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Architects: doxiadis+ / Thomas Doxiadis, Terpsi Kremali
Location: ,
Client: OLIAROS S.A.
Project Year: 2007
Project Area: 12 Ha
Photographs: Clive Nichols, Cathy Cunliffe

Renovation and Extension of the Municipal Theatre of Corfu and the Entrance Piazza / Zerefos Tessas Architects

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The original Municipal Theatre of  designed by C. Pergolessi at the end of the 19th century and destroyed by German bombers during the Second World War. In its place a modern building was erected in the 1960’s which unfortunately did not meet the aesthetic and functional expectations of the citizens of .  This proposal, brought to ArchDaily by Zerefos Tessas Architects is for the Renovation and Extension of the Municipal Theater of Corfu, to provide a more appropriate architectural identity through the building.

More on this project after the break.

Ensayar / Adrianopoulos + Associates

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Architects: Adrianopoulos + Associates
Location: Athens,
Photographs: Marios Theologis, Nikos Adrianopoulos

Green Light Tower / UArchitects

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Architects: UArchitects – Emile van Vugt and Misak Terzibasiyan
Location: , Greece
Drawings/Renders: Courtesy of UArchitects

Market for Arts and Crafts / Europe Studio Architects

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Constantine Cosmas and Stefanos Gkougkoustamos of Europe Studio Architects have shared with us their competition submission, a new market place typology. You can find additional images, diagrams and a narrative from the Architects of this proposal after the jump.

Plinthos / mab architecture

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Greek architects, mab architecture, have shared with us their interactive, multi sensory pavilion, Plinthos. Additional images, multiple videos and a description of this visually striking project after the break.

Othonos House / Nikos Smyrlis

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Architects: Nikos Smyrlis
Location: Kifissia, , Greece
Civil engineer: Ypsilon ltd
Electrical engineering: P. Panagiotou
Project area: 350 sqm
Project year: 2002 – 2008
Photographs: Erieta Attali

Elektra Bakery / Studioprototype Architects

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Architects: Studioprototype Architects
Location: , Greece
Project area: 35 sqm
Project year: 2009
Photographs: Spyros Paloukis

Viva La Lima Retail Store / OMADA architecture

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Architects: OMADA architecture / Kallimani Maro, Koumpli Lena, Xarhoulakou Olga
Location: Athens,
Client: Viva La Lima
Project year: 2009
Photographs: Kallimani Maro, Xarhoulakou Olga

Greenwashing Manual / Valentina Karga

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Valentina Karga has a Master in Architecture, Technical University of Thessaly, . She also was a Erasmus student in BUTE (Budapest University of Technology and Economics). Her last projects are the “Greenwashing manual” and the “Greenwasher, Sustainable active chamber”, which are her experimental thesis on how architectural research and design could adapt to the new reality of the implementation of sustainability.

Two Houses In Anixi / React Architects

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Architects: React Architects
Location: Anixi, ,
Project Manager : Natasha Deliyianni, Architect
Civil Engineer: MFP consulting engineers
Mechanical Study: Gregoriades Dimitris , Mechanical Engineer
Project area: 440 sqm
Project year: 2004 – 2009
Photographs: Elias Handelis, Architect

Hortus Conclusus / Point Supreme Architects

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based Point Supreme Architects were recently awarded an honorary mention for their Theater Square proposal.    The competition asked participants to rethink the idea of an urban square, as the site is surrounded by buildings which makes the small space seemingly negligible in the broad sense of the context.   For their proposal, the architects dedicated the square to the magic of nature by making an urban room realized as a ‘secret garden’.

More about the proposal after the break.

Social Housing: Residential Microchip / Gonatas+Lantavos Architects

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Gonatas+Lantavos Architects designed the Social Housing Project for the competition sponsored by the Greek Social Housing Organisation and the Hellenic Institute of Architecture. Located in , a municipality 27 km from the center of Thessalonica in Northern Greece, the residential complex is composed of small buildings that make up the larger complex. The existing landscape and context of the site helped formulate the design approach as an electronic microcircuit of connections.

Read on for more information and images after the break.

Piraeus Tower competition proposal / Arhiidea Architects

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Arhiidea Architects of , Latvia shared with us their proposal for the Pireaus Tower 2010 Competition in . Additional images and the architect’s conceptual description after the break.