Well well hello there boys ‘n girls

This is the “Athens-Projects,U/C and News” thread

Enjoy :)



I ‘ll start today with 2 U/C projects

The First is the building of “Ethniki Asfalistiki” (National Insurance)

http://www.anaparastasis.com/site/image-l/2059_8_asfal_22.jpg

http://www.anaparastasis.com/site/image-n/2059_8_asfal_15.jpg

http://www.anaparastasis.com/site/image-n/2059_8_asfal_night.jpg

http://www.anaparastasis.com/site/image-n/2059_128_asfal_atr_2.jpg
Opening date:2005
all pics from anaparastasis.com


The second project is the “Ilida”.A new suburb in the municipality of Maroussi

http://www.lamdaolympiavillage.gr/common_images/residential_big.jpg

http://www.lamdaolympiavillage.gr/common_images/poreia/a_48big.jpg

http://www.lamdaolympiavillage.gr/common_images/poreia/a_49big.jpg

http://www.lamdaolympiavillage.gr/common_images/poreia/b_48big.jpg

http://www.lamdaolympiavillage.gr/common_images/poreia/b_47big.jpg

http://www.lamdaolympiavillage.gr/common_images/poreia/c_48big.jpg

http://www.lamdaolympiavillage.gr/common_images/poreia/c_46big.jpg

http://www.lamdaolympiavillage.gr/common_images/poreia/d_46big.jpg

http://www.lamdaolympiavillage.gr/common_images/poreia/d_48big.jpg
Opening date:end of 2004
All pics from lamdaolympiavillage.gr

Yep, that's what was missing from this forum. OK, here we are:

The National Insurance company belongs to the national bank of Greece. The building has been designed by the famous architect Mario Botta, who also designed one of the buildings of the National Bank of Greece (obviously this bank has many properties around Athens) located in the Kotzias Square (also known as the Municipality's Square) in central Athens. Both designs are characterised by the use of bricks as a surface covering medium, giving the buildings a "Northenr European" look in contraxt to the usual concrete surfaces that we see, especially in the old areas of Athens.

The previous week I pass from the consrtuction site (I forgot my digi-cam :D ) and I notice that this “thing” is very big and I mean the complex. As for the barrier it isn’t a problem. The first thing you will notice is the imposing main building and then all the others. Great work by Botta.

5 new multiplex is going to open this year (2004/2005) in Athens.


Odeon Cineplex :

L. Kifisias- 12 screens

L. Sigrou- 10 screens


Village Roadshow :

Marousi- 13 screens

Illion- 20+ screens


Ster Cinemas :

L. Aharnon- 10 screens


This table shows all the new multiplex who is going to open in Hellas for the 2004/2005

http://ta-nea.dolnet.gr/data/D2004/D0828/1oh11a.gif
all infos and pic from ta-nea.dolnet.gr

Actually, in Maroussi even before the end of the end of this year there will be some 50 cinema theatres in total. We need to see who is going to fill all those theatres and shopping centres.

On the other hand, Maroussi (about which I had posted a thread some time ago), has see a HUGE regeneration and looks now like a high-end European city, especially towards the municipality building and the shopping area. I hope I can bring pictures but I need to post many others I took from other spots of Athens...

Egaleo FC
Reconstruction of the stadion


http://www.egaleofcgate12.gr/images/logogate12.jpghttp://www.egaleofcgate12.gr/cityboy2.gif

http://www.anaparastasis.com/site/image-s/2037_2_aigaleo_1.jpg

http://www.anaparastasis.com/site/image-s/2037_2_aigaleo_2.jpg

http://www.anaparastasis.com/site/image-s/2037_2_aigaleo_3.jpg

http://www.anaparastasis.com/site/image-s/2037_2_aigaleo_topo.jpg
The work begins in 15 days
pics 1,2 from egaleofgate12.gr
pics 3,4,5 and 6 from anaparastasis.com

-Factory Outlet at the Athens International Airport

Elmec Sport S.A. announces the successful completion of the negotiations of its subsidiary company Factory Outlet S.A. with the Athens International Airport S.A. regarding the construction and operation of a Discount Superstore within the Business Park of Athens International Airport “Eleftherios Venizelos”.

The New Discount Superstore will share the concept of the “Factory Outlet” Discount Superstore, already in operation since 1999. It will offer branded footwear and apparel products. It will cover a total area of 13.000 m2 and is expected to commence operation during the 4th quarter of 2005. The agreement covers the period up to December 31st, 2025.


-The biggest(according to the company) Extreme park in Europe is U/C.
Madvil is the name of the park and i will post more info soon.


-Pireas Plaza

I dont know anything about this project if it's finished or not.
Their website says that the center is under development.

http://www.plazacenters.com/images/athens.jpg

http://www.plazacenters.com/layouts/tags/pireus_gound.jpg

http://www.plazacenters.com/layouts/tags/pireus_first.jpg

http://www.plazacenters.com/layouts/tags/pireus_second.jpg

http://www.plazacenters.com/layouts/tags/pireus_third.jpg
plazacenters.com


-Ministry of commercial maritime building

The project consists of the design and reconstruction of the existing four (4) storey building located at the Piraeus Port.The total existing area of the building is 28.000 m2. After the reconstruction has taken place the total area will be approximately 38.000 m2

http://www.aegek.gr/projects_b/KED.jpg

http://www.aegek.gr/aegekphotos_3/projects_b/ked_b.jpg
all pics 'n info from aegek.gr


-"Sygrou-Fix" transfer station and underground parking

This project is located on Sigrou Avenue at the Fix station area. It consists of a four storey underground building which will accommodate approximately 650 parking spaces.The parking lots will be connected with the existing Metro station "FIX" using an underground tunnel.The "SYGROU-FIX" transfer station will be the final stop for all buses coming from southern suburban area whereby reducing the traffic problem in the downtown area of Athens.

http://www.aegek.gr/projects_b/FIX%20E.jpg
all pics 'n info from aegek.gr

-Marousi commercial and leisure center

http://www.lamdaolympiavillage.gr/common_images/emporiko_01big.jpg

The innovative Maroussi Commercial and Leisure Centre will bring new energy to Athens, comprising approximately 60,000 m2 of GLA, 240 units and 90,000 m2 of underground areas.Consumers in Athens can now visit a single location for all their retail, service and entertainment needs. The Centre will house the largest and best known retail brands, complemented by an extensive choice of restaurants, cafes, multiplex cinemas (15 screens), spacious areas for children's recreation, large-capacity underground parking (2,500 spaces). Inspired by the ancient Hellenic concept of "agora" the Commercial and Leisure Centre provides a central and accessible destination that combines a new alternative for shopping, leisure and casual outings for the whole family within a pleasant natural environment.
The Maroussi area is surrounded by some of the most affluent residential districts of Athens, and thus, has resulted in a marked increase in large local and multinational companies relocating their headquarters to this area. Stretching from the Attiki Odos to the Ministry of National Education & Religious Affairs, the Maroussi Centre is located at the junction of the Suburban Railway network and METRO subway, the Athens Urban Transport Organisation (bus service), the Amaroussion Municipal Transportation (bus) and Kiffisias Avenue. The Centre is scheduled for completion during Q1 of 2005.
pic and info from lamda-development.net


-Ministry of commercial maritime building *New Pics*

http://www.anaparastasis.gr/site/image-l/1072_8_yen_out.jpg

http://www.anaparastasis.gr/site/image-n/1072_128_yen_atrium.jpg

http://www.anaparastasis.gr/site/image-n/1072_128_yen_recept.jpg
all pics from anaparastasis.com

-New town hall for the municipality of Haidari

http://www.anaparastasis.gr/site/image-s/1053_8_haidari.jpg
Opening date:2005
pic from anaparastasis.gr


-New town hall for the municipality of Halandri

http://www.halandri.gr/images/Photos/erga/NeoDimarxeio/NeoDimarxeio1.jpg

http://www.halandri.gr/images/Photos/erga/NeoDimarxeio/NeoDimarxeio2.jpg
all pics from halandri.gr


-New town hall for the municipality of Geraka

http://www.anaparastasis.gr/site/image-s/2008_8_gerakas_day.jpg

http://www.anaparastasis.gr/site/image-s/2008_8_gerakas_e.jpg

http://www.anaparastasis.gr/site/image-s/2008_8_gerakas_low_1.jpg

http://www.anaparastasis.gr/site/image-s/2008_8_gerakas_low_2.jpg

http://www.anaparastasis.gr/site/image-s/2008_8_gerakas_high.jpg
all pics from anaparastasis.gr

Too bad I am busy with other issues and I am missing the party here as Konstantinoupolis posts alone. I will try to nick some time to assist this effort soon guys...

Δυστυχώς έχουμε και να ασχολούμαστε και με τα προς το ζήν...

Anyway, this Maroussi Centre is in a very advanced stage of construction and will be operational by the end of this year. Here is a ladge picture of the model of the building as appearing on the side road of the Attica road. I took it last June, but never took the time to upload it...

http://briefcase.pathfinder.gr/download/gm22632/24690/320179/0/Maroussi+Centre.jpg

the ethniki asfalistiki building is nquite the shit!!! amazing!
so whats going on with the construction?
btw what ebout panathinaikos arena? i heard something about ellinikon...

FOUNDATION OF THE HELLENIC WORLD-Hellenic Cosmos Thematic Park

http://www.anamorphosis-architects.com/projects/02_spatial_scenarios/02_photos_enlrg/imeland_01.jpg

The project involves the reutilisation of a large dilapidated industrial site through its conversion into a thematic park: an open-air museum of the history of Hellenism. The proposed scheme elaborates a spatial scenario which is based on characteristic hellenic landscape themes, as the latter have become inseparable parts of the hellenic culture through the centuries (as met in myths, tales, real historic events etc). Spaces like the gorge, the small clear-water lake, the modest waterfall, the beach, the cliff and the narrow passage, are introduced to organize the 70.000 sq.m. site, as well as the movement and resting areas of the visitors. They are introduced both as installations which would undertake temporary or permanent functions and as linking spaces between the Museum of Hellenism in Asia Minor, the art/education centre for children, the church, the building of the temporal exhibitions, the virtual reality dome, the conference centre, two restaurants, two cafes, and the offices of the Hellenic Cosmos Institution.
Status:in progress
Pic and info from anamorphosis-architects.com




FOUNDATION OF THE HELLENIC WORLD-Museum of Hellenism in Asia Minor

http://www.anamorphosis-architects.com/projects/ime/project_ime/project_IME_08.gif

The building concept concerns a museum of history - not original historical exhibits. The design principle is based on the spatio-psychoanalytic concept of lack (deeply routed in Greek culture) as critique against the notions of 'collection'/ 'acquisition'. Both as sense of loss of original pieces as well as creative spatial process, lack, led to the formulation of a new museological approach integrating exhibition and builiding into one. Spatiality is conceived, psychoanalytically, as the mode of history, and highlighted both as the major diachronic documentation of Greek civilisation (recurring, homeomorphing, collocating) and the main concept of the building: a spatial monument as opposed to a symbolic memorial.
The proposed continuous strip, self-evolving across the building, produces homeomorphic curved schemes in three distinct, spatial gestures/installations: a) the amphitheatre presenting Classical Antiquity, b) the dome presenting Byzantium, c) the sheltering cell presenting Modern times (17th - early 20th century), covering the overall museum space. Accordingly, three distinct lighting treatments are proposed: a) bright daylight, small sharp shadows, b) indirect, ambient, no shadows, c) cinematic side-lighting, long shadows. Yet, the strip surface employs a gradient synthesis of materials and construction techniques - varying from: a) tectonic, marble, stone, b) cast material, c) timber, glass and metal structures. Client: Foundation of Hellenic World, Athens. Total exhibition space: 3500 sq.m


The concept

http://www.anamorphosis-architects.com/projects/ime/ime_concept_images/ime_concept_01.jpg

The building concept concerns a museum of history - not original historical pieces. It highlights three major historic periods in Greek civilisation: Classical Antiquity, Byzantium, Modern Times: 17th - early 20th century (involving the ultimate expatriation of the Greeks from Asia Minor in 1922, and the rise of new homelands in Greece), also emphasising the intermediate role of Prehistoric, Hellenistic, Roman and Ottoman periods. It belongs to the theme park of the Hellenic Cosmos, whose landscape is also designed by Anamorphosis.

Anamorphosis proposes a spatial-psychoanalytic approach of Greek history which it regards as a permanent exchange between Greece and Asia Minor - the motherland and the "opposite side": a side both own and unknown.
The "missing" of the authentic pieces is seen as guidance rather than disadvantage. The psychoanalytic concept of lack becomes the main design principle. Lack is the spatial critique of the narcissistic making (or unmaking) of the object; it involves both a familiarisation with the loss of it (the original piece, the beloved …) and a creative spatial process of overcoming loss after the completion of mourning. In this context Anamorphosis sees lack as a real condition deeply and repeatedly experienced throughout Greek history, but also as an opportunity for developing a new, critical, museological approach - a spatial museology - vis a vis the notions of "collection" and "acquisition" which are emblematic of today's "museum-culture". That is a total museological approach which activates the untimely, real historic space, beyond the symbolic commemorations of the past.
Spatiality, in the context of lack, is both the major diachronic documentation of Greek civilisation and a critical design concept. Space, instead of becoming a neutral canvas for inscription of negativity and endless melancholic lamenting over the lost property, is hereby activated through recurring, homeomorphing and collocating processes. "Exhibition" and "building" merge as the presentation of historical material and the actual building parts are synthesised into one extended space progressing from large structural elements to mixed-media installations destined to "replace" the absent exhibits. Anamorphosis designs a spatial monument, by reactivating the physicality of historic forms. The "amphitheatre", the "dome", and the "(self-)sheltering structure", share a natural homeomorphy producing a spatial scenario. These are neither symbolic objects, nor abstract sculptural themes, but real spatial experiences (involving distinct qualities of lighting, material and collective function) constantly appearing in various occasions throughout greek history, thus manifesting an intelligence of their own. They are resynthesised in one continuous self-anamorphosed surface: a gesture of morphic persistence and exchangeability across the building, which produces the three major spatial installations of the museum: a) the amphitheatre presenting Classical Antiquity, b) the dome presenting Byzantium, c) the (self-)sheltering cell (covering the previous two installations and overall museum space) presenting Modern Times.

http://www.anamorphosis-architects.com/projects/ime/ime_concept_images/ime_concept_02.jpg

The three installations are distinct spatial experiences elaborated at the levels of lighting and collective function, including respectively: a) bright daylight, small sharp shadows and meeting place; b) indirect, ambient light, no shadows, and congregation place, c) moving image, cinematic side-lighting, long shadows, and audience gathering place. Yet, the strip surface employs a gradient synthesis of materials and construction techniques including: a) tectonic, marble, stone…, b) cast material, spolio…, c) timber, glass and metal structures. The main visitor's route along the main strip surface is always doubly related to the major installations, offering both direct access as well as distant (anticipatory or concluding) views of them.


The 3 installations

http://www.anamorphosis-architects.com/projects/ime/ime_threeinstal/ime_threeinstal_08.jpg

By metaphorising the standard architectural terms one could say that: the Classical Antiquity - Amphitheatre installation conveys the experience/practice of the plan (ie an experience of space directly open to the sky above); the Byzantium - Dome installation conveys the experience of the section (ie an experience of spatial intimacy, cutting across space); and the Modern Times - Sheltering Cell installation conveys the experience of the perspective (ie an experience of space via envisaged projections, as recapitulations of the past and anticipations of the future).
The three installations are designed as three distinct spatial experiences. Their elaboration focuses on four aspects: lighting, materials, documentation and function


Plans

http://www.anamorphosis-architects.com/projects/ime/ime_plans_images/AMmu_PLAN01.jpg

http://www.anamorphosis-architects.com/projects/ime/ime_plans_images/AMmu_PLAN02.jpg

http://www.anamorphosis-architects.com/projects/ime/ime_plans_images/AMmu_PLAN03.jpg

http://www.anamorphosis-architects.com/projects/ime/ime_plans_images/AMmu_PLAN04.jpg

http://www.anamorphosis-architects.com/projects/ime/ime_plans_images/AMmu_PLAN05.jpg

http://www.anamorphosis-architects.com/projects/ime/ime_plans_images/AMmu_PLAN06.jpg

Sections

http://www.anamorphosis-architects.com/projects/ime/ime_plans_images/AMmu_Section%2002.jpg

http://www.anamorphosis-architects.com/projects/ime/ime_plans_images/AMmu_Section%2001.jpg


Technical information

http://www.anamorphosis-architects.com/projects/ime/ime_technical_images/AMmu_model03.jpg

The building includes 3500 sq. m exhibition area, and Virtual Reality Cave. It is located on Piraeus Street, central Athens Hellas.

Surfaces in sq.m

Exhibition space

Preparation 120
Landscapes 295
Prehistory 202
Antiquity 585
Alexander The Great 283
Hellenistic Period 243
Byzantium 570
Middle Ages / Ottoman Period 516
Modern Times 20th cent. Smyrni 514
New Homelands 172

total 3500

Virtual Reality

Reception - exhibition space 50
Waiting area 140
Computer Control 44
Computer room 20
Cave 120

total 374

Visitor’s service space

Entrance 530
Cloackroom 42
Information 30
Tickets 12
Gifts-shop 60
Cafe 60
Foyer 145
Toilets M 54 +8
Toilets F 54 +8

total 1003

Auxiliary Spaces

Staff 120
Control Room 145
Laboratories 132
Airconditioning unit 186
Electric power unit 37
Water engineering unit 880
Storage 45

total 1545

Parking Space

1st basement 400
2nd basement 2855

total 3255


Light

http://www.anamorphosis-architects.com/projects/ime/ime_light_images/AMmu_model10.jpg

http://www.anamorphosis-architects.com/projects/ime/ime_light_images/AMmu_model07.jpg

Light becomes one of the major design principles of the museum. Light is what makes form to exist. Light is not the means of seeing space, but it is part of the spatial process itself. It has not to do with the visibility or distinctness of objects, but with the way in which space manifests itself as diachronic cultural principle. Light is an indigenous design principle common to all mediterranean world.
In his conversation with Picasso, the greek poet O.Elytis argued that the difference between surrealism in Greece and surrealism in Europe lies in the operation of natural light. In his words, light upgrades the project of surrealism,
reveals its full rigor and extends its operationality.
In the 60’s the greek surrealist poet A.Empirikos wrote:
" Oh God! This searing heat is necessary to produce such light. This light is necessary so that one day it may become a common glory, a universal glory, the glory of Hellenes, who were the first in this world, I think, to make out of the fear of death an erotic urge for life ". Andreas Empirikos: In the Street of Philhellenes, in "Tracing Architecture", AD/ Architectural Design Magazine guest edited by Nikos Georgiadis, London 1998. p.27


The principle of Anamorphosis as spartial experience and technique

http://www.anamorphosis-architects.com/projects/ime/ime_principle_images/AMmu_model04.jpg

Anamorphosis is the spatial understanding of history and its role as fundamental PSYCHOANALYTIC/PSYCHOSYNTHETIC process, beyond any symbolic preconception or nostalgic commemoration (traumatic or other). It is not a way of seeing history; it is rather a process via which history looks back at us, and in that sense it re-shapes the future optimistically.
Anamorphosis as a psychic process introduces not the question of thinking about space or the environment, but the question of THINKING WITH SPACE AND THE ENVIRONMENT.
Anamorphosis is the MODE OF HISTORY: the way in which history recurs and ‘repeats itself’ without our knowing why. It is the persistence of the spatiality of events: the morphic excess of the historic and the suspense of the historical.
Anamorphosis is the spatial experience of Greek Civilisation: a process of recurrence, homeomorphy and collocation ©. It is a morphic relation with the other, the ‘opposite’ side, a side both OWN and UNKNOWN.
Anamorphosis is a critique of the disinterested logocentric or agnostic individual. It is the reintroduction of the SPECTATOR’S INTEREST via real spatial processes. It is a technique of spatial precision, critical of the accidental, amorphous and frequential considerations of space.
Anamorphosis takes a spatial approach to museology. It inverts the relationship between viewer and exhibit. As the exhibits lose their object-property and become part of one extended space, exhibition and Museum merge into one SPATIAL MONUMENT
Status:in progress
All pics and info from anamorphosis-architects.com

*Breaking news*

- Hellas will bid for Euro 2012

- Aproved: AEK FC and Panathinaikos FC new Stadia

- Proposal: New home ground (new stadion) for PAOK FC

*Breaking news*

- Hellas will bid for Euro 2012

- Aproved: AEK FC and Panathinaikos FC new Stadia

- Proposal: New home ground (new stadion) for PAOK FC

Is it true that plans of the two new stadiums are approved? Until now i knew that AEK has major financial problems and the development of the new stadium is stack in the bureaucracy and Panathinaikos has not signed any deal for the location. Not that i am a disbeliever but could you give any reference of the news you are breaking to read it by myself as well. Thank u

We will see with AEK.


Panathinaikos are very close to securing their location @ Goudi.

And PAOK seem to be building a new stadium were Toumba lies which will seat 31-33,000. It is not completely official yet though.

Hey, great bunch of things for Athens!

Any updates on things?

Great projects, Ethniki Asfalistiki looks great! :)