Chain of jewelry retail stores. Kιfissia, Athens
The metal structures lost their distinct quality when technology imposed the electric welding. The use of curved nails at the joining metal parts characterizes important metal samples of a long period in the development of architectural and industrial design. Today the electric welding at metal has been executed from the shops – workshops of jewellery […]
Chain of OMNIA retail stores. Kolonaki, Athens
This is a different type of store for the Greek reality, having selected heterogeneous objects, with an unclear and without restrictions content. The goal was to maximize the store’s capacity, both for display and storage, but also for the best promotion of these heterogeneous objects. The main idea of the design based on an aircraft’s […]
Chain of jewelry retail stores. Psychico, Athens
This store, in addition to selling jewelry was designed to accommodate small periodic exhibitions with paintings, sculpture, creative photography, jewelry, etc., in a specially designed area with specific lighting and suspension systems. This is an initiative that sought the coexistence of commercial and artistic activities, aiming to promote available and affordable art to the […]
Attica Park redesign. Athens
Attic Park, in the center of greater Athens and elevated above areas around it, is surrounded and traversed by broad streets which have all but severed its contacts with the neighbouring residential areas. Nevertheless, it can, if handled properly, regain its importance as one of the city’s green cultural and recreation spaces. The present street […]
Single-family house at Glyfada. Athens
The project is basically characterised by the substantial participation of the owners in the design process. Having in mind the strong memories of the interwar “grandmothers’ house” in P.Faliro, a reinterpreting of the inter-War period architecture in dialogue with the conquests of contemporary technology was attempted, keeping the virtues and the construction ethos of the […]
Apartment building at Ag.Paraskevi. Athens
The building is situated at narrow facing site which lead the design to a narrow volume of long side elevation. The external walls were set back from the layout of the volume, defined by the uncoated concrete structure. Therefore, intermediated zones were created which alternate from void to solid, supporting small verandas or planting cases. […]
Chain of jewelry retail stores. Glyfada, Athens
The area of Glyfada, with the intense illustrations in commercial zones, required a dynamic approach to the facade of the store. The elongated shape of the facade helped this option, by allowing a second level, a second “scene”, where special emphasis was given with the sculpture of Stavros Bonatsou.The sculpture from polyester and the […]
Dynamo retail store. Kolonaki, Athens
The basic objective was to transform an intensely introverted store into a vital area of a “pass and stop” space that would be an extension and continuity of the pedestrian flow with the character of a typical commercial “arcade – walkway”. The store was adjacent to an apartment building of the interwar period that eventually […]
Chain of jewelry retail stores. Kolonaki,
During the 80’s, when the urban electric railway of Athens was in decline was chosen to be the central idea of shaping the jewelry store in Kolonaki. The main lines of the design based on the intimate feel of wooden wagons and Omonia station. WOODEN WAGON OF ELECTRIC RAILWAY IN THE STATION OF PIRAEUS, 1983 […]
Single-family vacation house refurbishment, Evia
The house was build around 1900, is situated on the beach of Limni, a seaside village in North Evia, characterised by many neoclassical houses by anonymous builders. The old building was subjected to a lot of interventions and simplifications which aimed to be restored according to the architectural characteristics of the area. Consequently, all old […]
Renovations in the Oil Museum, Sparta
The Oil Museum, located in Sparta, one of the main olive producing areas of our country in the Peloponnesus is unique. The main concept for the Network of Theme Museums of the Piraeus Bank Group Cultural Foundation is the integration and operation of Multi-Purpose Halls. These halls are designed with high standards in order […]
Appartment Resort, Santorini
The hotel of furnished apartments Oia’s Sunset lies around the longitudinal center of the traditional settlement of Oia, Santorini. The aim of the synthesis was the best possible integration of the settlement, so as the whole to become a small neighborhood. For this purpose, was sought the division of the building stock in sizes according […]