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demetrio
October 12th, 2005, 12:38 AM
KIFISSIAS AVENUE
http://www.athens-today.com/photo/Various%20-%20Kifissias%20Avenue/kifissias1.jpghttp://www.athens-today.com/photo/Various%20-%20Kifissias%20Avenue/kifissias2.jpg
http://www.athens-today.com/photo/Various%20-%20Kifissias%20Avenue/kifissias5.jpghttp://www.athens-today.com/photo/Various%20-%20Kifissias%20Avenue/kifissias4.jpg
http://www.athens-today.com/photo/Various%20-%20Kifissias%20Avenue/kifissias20.jpghttp://www.athens-today.com/photo/Various%20-%20Kifissias%20Avenue/kifissias6.jpg
http://www.athens-today.com/photo/Various%20-%20Kifissias%20Avenue/kifissias19.jpghttp://www.athens-today.com/photo/Various%20-%20Kifissias%20Avenue/kifissias21.jpg
more photos available on the www.athens-today.com photo galleries (http://www.athens-today.com/photo/e-photoalbum.asp).
SYNGROU AVENUE
http://www.athens-today.com/photo/Various%20-%20Syngrou%20Avenue/syngrou7.jpghttp://www.athens-today.com/photo/Various%20-%20Syngrou%20Avenue/syngrou6.jpg
http://www.athens-today.com/photo/Various%20-%20Syngrou%20Avenue/syngrou4.jpghttp://www.athens-today.com/photo/Various%20-%20Syngrou%20Avenue/syngrou5.jpg
more photos available on the www.athens-today.com photo galleries (http://www.athens-today.com/photo/e-photoalbum.asp).
KONSTANTINOUPOLIS
October 12th, 2005, 01:06 AM
Ωραίες φωτογραφίες demetrio :okay:
Skoulikimou
October 12th, 2005, 01:23 AM
i love athina :cheers:
Zorba
October 12th, 2005, 01:30 AM
Great photos!
Christos7
October 12th, 2005, 04:26 AM
Very nice.
And congrats on your site, it is truely wonderful.
If you haven't seen it yet everybody, go to www.athens-today.com
oxidan
October 12th, 2005, 05:18 AM
would be nice to see a treat about
the most nice discoteques in athens, towns, beaches.. and I haven't see a tread about piraeus towns. keratsini, nikea, etc etc
GrigorisSokratis
October 12th, 2005, 05:31 AM
Αχ ρε παιδια, ας ειχανε και 10 η 20 οροφους παραπανω, και θα ητανε καταπληκτικα.
Παντως οσο αφορα το αρχιτεκτονικο τους στυλ, ειναι υπεροχα, πραγμα το οποιο αναδεικνυει οτι εχουμε καλους αρχιτεκτονες στην Ελλαδα, που απλως ακολουθουν τους κτιριακους κανονες που επικρατουν στην πατριδα μας. Αυτο που ομως δε μπορει να συζητηθει ειναι η ικανοτητα τους να σχεδιαζουν κτιρια εξαιρετικου επιπεδου, το οποιο μας διαβεβαιωνει σαφεστατα οτι ειναι σε θεση να κτιζουν και ουρανοξυστες απο τα καλυτερα της Ευρωπης αν το παρουν αποφαση.
Και ως τελευταιο σημειο θελω να υπενθημισω σε ολους αυτους που ειναι κατα της ανεγερσης τετοιου ειδους οικοδομηματων σε μερικες περιοχες της Αθηνας οπως πχ στο Μαρουσι, λογω σεισμων, να εχετε υποψη σας πως σε αλλες παρομοιως σεισμογενεις πολεις οπως το Λος Αντζελες η το Μεξικο εχουν τεραστιους ουρανοξυστες εδω και πολλα χρονια. (Τις προαλλες ειδα ενα παρα πολυ καλλο ντοκυμαντερ στο National Geographic περι ενος πυργου που εχουνε κτισει στο Μεξικο 250-260 μετρων, και στο οποιο κανουν κυριως αναφορα σε ολα τα σχετικα με τις τεχνολογιες που εχουν εφαρμοσει για την αντιμετοπηση πιθανων σεισμων εως τους 10 βαθμους ριχτερ χωρις σημαντικες επιπτωσεις. Το ονομα του πυργου ειναι Torre Mayor, ενα πανεμορφο εξηνταοροφο στη καρδια της μεξικανικης προτευουσας ).
gm2263
October 12th, 2005, 07:58 AM
Ax Γρηγόρη μην ξύνεις πληγές...
Τέλως πάντων, πρόχειρα συλλεχθέίσες και αφιερωμένες εξαιρετικά...
Enjoy:
http://briefcase.pathfinder.gr/download/gm22634/35743/429237/0/Athens+-+Shelman+and+Atrina+small800x.jpg
http://briefcase.pathfinder.gr/download/gm22633/29410/347429/0/Polis+4%2C+5+and+6+-+2+-+small+.jpg
http://briefcase.pathfinder.gr/download/gm22634/35743/429238/0/Athens+-+Syngrou+Buildings+-2005+-+small800x.jpg
http://briefcase.pathfinder.gr/download/gm22634/35743/429224/0/Athens+-+Interamerican+Tower+-+Front+1+-2005+-++small+800x.jpg
http://briefcase.pathfinder.gr/download/gm22633/29410/347430/0/48+Michalakopoulou+Street+2+-enhanced.jpg
http://briefcase.pathfinder.gr/download/gm22633/29410/347431/0/Athens+-+Politia+Business+Center+-+3+-+compact.jpg
http://briefcase.pathfinder.gr/download/gm22633/29410/347432/0/Athens+-+Politia+Business+Center+-+5+-+compact.jpg
http://briefcase.pathfinder.gr/download/gm22633/29410/354996/0/Atrina+Centre+and+neighbourhood+1-small2.jpg
http://briefcase.pathfinder.gr/download/gm22632/24690/347394/0/Kiffissias+Avenue+from+Hygeia+Footbridge+North1.JPG
http://briefcase.pathfinder.gr/download/gm22632/24690/334284/0/Athens+-+Maroussi+Hygeia+and+Velodrome-+2b+-+Detail+-+Comp.jpg
Και όντως ο Demetrio είναι κορυφαίος... :)
gm2263
October 12th, 2005, 08:08 AM
και ερευνείστε τις σελίδες εδώ -------------> http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/ci/bu/ob/li/?id=100623&bt=22&ht=2&sro=1, υπομονή να έχετε να βλέπετε...
Raleigh-NC
October 12th, 2005, 03:00 PM
Nice work :okay:
sts
October 12th, 2005, 03:17 PM
Impressive!Great thread!
gm2263
October 12th, 2005, 03:42 PM
It's just beginning sts,
This thread is just beginning!!!
Fresh out of the oven:
Today's picture (12 October 2005, 11:30am): The junction of Syggrou and Kallirois Avenues opposite the Intercontinental Hotel with an unusual cloudy sky and the head offices of the Interamerican Insurance group in the foreground (actually they own 4 buildings all along Sygggrou avenue these guys, I wonder why not build a single 30-storey one and accomodate all their offices there. Anyway, enjoy and wait for more... :)
http://briefcase.pathfinder.gr/download/gm22634/35743/482640/0/Syggrou+Kallirois+Small.JPG
PS: ADSL connection rocks. I saw stars when I bought one. Highly recommended for serious image transferring and downloading... :)...
Giorgio
October 12th, 2005, 06:16 PM
they didnt build 1 30 story building because athens has a hieght limit....dont no if u knew :lol:
Cerises
October 12th, 2005, 10:24 PM
Wonderful pictures! :cheers:
KONSTANTINOUPOLIS
October 13th, 2005, 09:18 PM
Keep the pics coming guys :applause:
LEAFS FANATIC
October 13th, 2005, 11:00 PM
http://photos.***************/donsears/athens/large/044_DCP_6417.JPG
http://photos.***************/donsears/athens/large/124_DCP_6540.JPG
http://photos.***************/donsears/athens/large/135_DCP_6551.JPG
http://greekconference.com/common2/photos/hotels/2581/ahelexpcoview.jpg
gm2263
October 14th, 2005, 08:08 AM
@ KOsta kai Leafs
One of these days I will visit the esplanade in Syggrou Avenue so stay tuned. :) I can see that today's a sunny day so... :)
Giorgio
October 14th, 2005, 08:53 AM
leafs is the first pic taken from inside the olympic stadium?
LEAFS FANATIC
October 14th, 2005, 02:57 PM
leafs is the first pic taken from inside the olympic stadium?
Yes. The picture is from Don Sears, an individual who worked in NBC's media during the Athens Olympics. He has some awesome pics from his trip to Athens last summer and to some of the surrounding islands. Check them out here:
http://***************/donsears/athens
sts
October 14th, 2005, 03:11 PM
Athens needs more and more of this kind of buildings!
gm2263
October 15th, 2005, 01:19 PM
As promised:
Athenian lowrises with their glory unfolded... If they only were some 20-30 storeys taller :( All pics taken by me so in case you don't love them, send me all you got... :D
Enjoy:
Syggrou Avenue
-Seen before but this was taken yesterday (14 Oct 2005)):
http://briefcase.pathfinder.gr/download/gm22634/40271/483541/0/Athens+-+Syggrou+buildings+2005+Version+2-+small.JPG
-Ethniki Asfalistiki (National Insurance Company, a branch of the national bank of Greece in Syggrou Avenue) Head Offices. Architect is the one and only Marrio Botta with two new Greek architects. Botta also built the National Bank of Greece head offices (http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=217356) (click on the link, you won't regret it)
http://briefcase.pathfinder.gr/download/gm22634/40271/483565/0/Ethniki+Asphalistiki+Complex+5-small.jpg
-Ethniki Asfalistiki Head Offices 2
http://briefcase.pathfinder.gr/download/gm22634/40271/483562/0/Ethniki+Asphalistiki+Complex+6-small.jpg
-Ethniki Asfalistiki Head Offices 3
http://briefcase.pathfinder.gr/download/gm22634/40271/483563/0/Ethniki+Asphalistiki+Complex+7-small.jpg
-The main building..
http://briefcase.pathfinder.gr/download/gm22634/40271/483564/0/Ethniki+Asphalistiki+Block+A-small4.jpg
-Next to the National Insurance complex: A new 10-storey tall cineplex and entertainment centre with VERY impressive post-modernistic architectural style...
http://briefcase.pathfinder.gr/download/gm22634/40271/483593/0/Syggrou+Multiplex.JPG
-The Onasseion Cardiac Surgery Centre in Syggrou Avenue- One of the Top in Europe, built with money from the Onassis foundation which is managing part of the huge assets and properties of the late Greek Tycoon Alexandros Onassis:
http://briefcase.pathfinder.gr/download/gm22634/40271/483568/0/Athens+-+Onassion+Cardiac+Surgery+Center+-small+.jpg
-Onasseion Cardiac Surgery Centre: Distant view from the Profitis Helias hill in Piraeus... Very distant shot in fact, for your eyes only...
http://briefcase.pathfinder.gr/download/gm22634/40271/483567/0/Athens+-+Onassion+Cardiac+Surgery+Center+-+2-medium.jpg
-Last (but not least), a pic of a Hummer SUV parked on Syggrou Avenue, right where the airbridge from the Kallirois Avenue lands. Must be for sale as used by the nearby car dealer. Couldn't resist to take a pic. Not a building or a house but almost as big as a house... Enjoy it with the buildings of Syggrou Avenue as a background...
http://briefcase.pathfinder.gr/download/gm22634/36693/483591/0/Hummer+2.JPG
Other Avenues/ Places
-The Byzantine Ages-old Church of St Nikolas in the Thon Estate, one of the most controversial developments of modern Athens in Kifissias and Alexandras Avenues:
http://briefcase.pathfinder.gr/download/gm22634/40271/483542/0/Thon+Estate+Blocks+1%2C+2+%26+St+Nicolas-+Church+compressed.jpg
-Building on 77 Amphitheas Avenue in Palaion Phaliron next to the Mc Donalds restaurant..
http://briefcase.pathfinder.gr/download/gm22634/40271/483543/0/77+Amphitheas+Avenue+-+medium.jpg
-Hondos Centre Department Store, Omonia Square
http://briefcase.pathfinder.gr/download/gm22634/40271/483544/0/Athens+-+Hondos+Center+2-small.jpg
-Politeia Business Centre (http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=170304), Messogeion Avenue, atrium detail 1
http://briefcase.pathfinder.gr/download/gm22634/40271/483545/0/Athens+-+Politia+Business+Center+-+7+-+small.jpg
-Politeia Business centre, Messogeion Avenue, atrium detail 2
http://briefcase.pathfinder.gr/download/gm22634/40271/483546/0/Athens+-+Politia+Business+Center+-+8+-+small.jpg
And if you are pleased with the above, theres's more of it comin' soon sweethearts !!!
A, re Demetrio nasai kala mou anoixes tin orexi, nasai kala
KONSTANTINOUPOLIS
October 15th, 2005, 01:33 PM
Μπράβο gm , πολλή ωραίες οι φωτογραφίες, έδωσες τα ρέστα σου :) :okay:
gm2263
October 15th, 2005, 01:38 PM
Μπράβο gm , πολλή ωραίες οι φωτογραφίες, έδωσες τα ρέστα σου :) :okay:
Τις φωτογραφίες του συγκροτήματος της ΕθνικήςΑσφαλιστικής τις έχω βάλει ήδη στα "Κατασκευαστικά Νέα" ως άρτι ανεγερθέν. Κατα τα άλλα παιδιά, οτι θέλετε πάρτε για τα "Stickies". Και περιμένετε και τρίτο γύρο, έχω αρκετο πράμα, δόξα τω Θεώ.
GrigorisSokratis
October 16th, 2005, 07:09 PM
Thank you Grigori they are great pics but one thing to mention though:
http://briefcase.pathfinder.gr/download/gm22634/40271/483568/0/Athens+-+Onassion+Cardiac+Surgery+Center+-small+.jpg
What the Winston guys mean with that ad next to the Onasseion? Smoke these ones and then in some 30 years step into the Onasseion so as they can heal you :hahaha:
gm2263
October 16th, 2005, 09:14 PM
Actually, this pic is some 3 years old and I am not sure whether they advertise Cigarettes or not right now (I quit smoking two years ago anyways :D) . Thanks for the observation though, this is quite a paradox that you mention:)
And like I said, wait for more stuff... :)
Christos7
October 16th, 2005, 09:32 PM
Yes re GM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
MORE MORE MORE!!! :okay:
sts
October 17th, 2005, 02:51 PM
Greaaaaaaaaaaattttttttttttt!!!!!
demetrio
October 17th, 2005, 03:36 PM
Vary good work gm and thanks everybody for the kind words!
Here are some new photos exclusively for your pleasure! :)
Kifissias Avenue:
http://www.athens-today.com/foto/kifissias25.jpg
http://www.athens-today.com/foto/kifissias24.jpg
http://www.athens-today.com/photo/Various%20-%20Kifissias%20Avenue/kifissias23.jpg
http://www.athens-today.com/foto/kifissias22.jpg
systema magicum
October 4th, 2008, 07:13 PM
http://pic40.picturetrail.com:80/VOL384/9870812/20480791/335311150.jpg
http://pic40.picturetrail.com/VOL384/9870812/20480791/337420814.jpg
Interamerican building.
Architect: porphyrios associates http://www.porphyrios.co.uk/
http://pic40.picturetrail.com:80/VOL384/9870812/20480791/335310257.jpg
The National Insurance complex.
Architect: Mario Botta
http://www.botta.ch/
http://pic40.picturetrail.com/VOL384/9870812/20480791/337277279.jpg
all photos by systema magicum
systema magicum
October 4th, 2008, 07:19 PM
The New Acropolis Museum.
Architect: Bernard Tschumi
http://www.tschumi.com/
http://pic40.picturetrail.com:80/VOL384/9870812/20480791/337005142.jpg
http://pic40.picturetrail.com:80/VOL384/9870812/20480791/331465897.jpg
http://pic40.picturetrail.com:80/VOL384/9870812/20480791/331464527.jpg
http://pic40.picturetrail.com/VOL384/9870812/20480791/331465440.jpg
all photos by systema magicum
systema magicum
October 4th, 2008, 07:25 PM
Benaki museum.
Architects: Kokkinou and Kourkoulas architects
http://www.kokkinoukourkoulas.com/
http://pic40.picturetrail.com:80/VOL384/9870812/20480791/335311107.jpg
View of the atrium with an installation by Varotsos.
systema magicum
October 4th, 2008, 07:35 PM
Office Bulding at Pireos Street.
Architect:
MRA http://www.mra.gr/
http://pic40.picturetrail.com/VOL384/9870812/20480791/337269851.jpg
gorgos
October 4th, 2008, 07:49 PM
I liked:
the MRA building (what I can see I like)
Benaki museum (very nice)
Acropolis Museum (very beautiful, amazing detailing)
The building in the post of Leafs Fanatic
Olympic Stadium (nice organic structure)
Ethniki Asfalistiki (very nice form, didnt know that building, great!)
To a lesser extent I also liked the Onnaseion, probably because Ive got a weak spot for architecture of that era.
The rest in this thread was really horrible I think...I dont how or why, but these office buildings in Greece are 99% of the times really ugly. Those reflective glass facade systems are very 80s and most of the times done in a very cheap poor manner. This is I think corporate architecture in its worst form.
systema magicum
October 4th, 2008, 07:55 PM
Athens Olympic complex.
Architect: Santiago Calatrava
http://www.calatrava.com/
http://pic40.picturetrail.com/VOL384/9870812/20480791/337271900.jpg
http://pic40.picturetrail.com/VOL384/9870812/20480791/337271919.jpg
http://pic40.picturetrail.com/VOL384/9870812/20480791/337272662.jpg
http://pic40.picturetrail.com/VOL384/9870812/20480791/335168513.jpg
all photos by systema magicum
systema magicum
October 4th, 2008, 07:59 PM
The building by Mra architects is perfect, in my opinion it is one of the most contemporary office buildings in Athens but I think few people know it.
Well I took this photo from car and I want to take a better one if I have the chance...:)
systema magicum
October 4th, 2008, 08:10 PM
The National Bank of Greece.
Architects: Mario Botta, Morfo Papanikolaou, Rena Sakelaridou.
http://pic40.picturetrail.com/VOL384/9870812/20480791/337274219.jpg
photo by systema magicum
gorgos
October 4th, 2008, 08:11 PM
I'd like to see the bottom part, but watch out you dont crash :)
systema magicum
October 4th, 2008, 08:12 PM
I think there are some photos at their site…
I also find very impressive the office building of Tombazis at Syggrou avenue
gm2263
October 4th, 2008, 08:40 PM
We need to keep this thread open and up-to-date as, in the absence of skyscraper construction this represents the cutting edge of building technology and architectural design in Greece. :)
systema magicum
October 4th, 2008, 08:40 PM
^^ I would like to see more projects by Porphyrios in Athens :nuts:
AAL
October 5th, 2008, 02:06 AM
I love Porphyrios. The kind of post-modernism that he employs in the Interamerican builing in Athens is very popular in London...however, the greek architectural establishment is so conservative that it cannot accept anything that is not traditional - and its tradition is, of course, post-war modernism...
Postmodernism is mocked by modernists in Greece, the same way that the classicists mocked the modernists 80 years ago...
For me, it's like politics: I do not see why one has to "take sides" with anyone. Any good proposition should always be considered...
systema magicum
October 5th, 2008, 05:30 PM
This is very true as London has many buildings of this type and this height at Saint Paul square for example at the City .Well the redevelopment around Saint Paul was very controversial but in my opinion the architecture that was applied was something more than the appropriate for this area and was also accompanied by impressive public art installations. I would like to see something similar happening at the center of our city for example to change some facades at Syntagma or Omonoia or for new buildings. We have some incredible office buildings from the sixties at the center of Athens but at the same time some others are just horrible and neglected. Anyway we want new buildings for Athens and good or innovative architecture and as we live in a pluralistic era everything new can be interesting and improve our urban environment. As for a part of the Greek architects…they are at the same condition with the Greek society…lost somewhere between 1975 and 1985…so I will start to sing for them a song from Blur…the stereotypes…( imagine me singing) :banana: nice song and I will use the title of their album: We need the Great escape…..NOW!!!!!!!! :cheers:
systema magicum
October 5th, 2008, 08:27 PM
Katehaki Pedestrian Bridge
Architect: Santiago Calatrava
www.calatrava.com
http://pic40.picturetrail.com:80/VOL384/9870812/20480791/335310197.jpg
a recent photo :)
christos-greece
October 6th, 2008, 07:11 PM
Interesting pics
ovem
October 6th, 2008, 10:25 PM
yes but the last one is amazing!
s.villa
October 7th, 2008, 01:30 AM
nice! .... im visiting athens this winter
christos-greece
October 8th, 2008, 07:16 PM
yes but the last one is amazing!
Kalatrava bridge :lol: Yeap!
ovem
October 10th, 2008, 06:45 AM
well the deck looks like sapiokaravo... :D
systema magicum
October 11th, 2008, 11:56 AM
Tholos - virtual theatre.
architects: Giorgos Andreadis, Natalia Efraimoglou, Ioannis Tsiomis
http://www.tholos254.gr/en/index.html
http://pic40.picturetrail.com/VOL384/9870812/20480791/338201779.jpg
photo by systema magicum
pilotos
October 11th, 2008, 03:01 PM
Btw any idea if the new building on the Hellenic cosmos complex is U/C ?
systema magicum
October 11th, 2008, 03:04 PM
do you mean the museum of the hellenic world? the theater was inaugurated a few months ago…and it is also a very interesting building.
pilotos
October 11th, 2008, 03:09 PM
Not really sure, but i believe i am talking about the theater building...building "3" as far as i know:)
SouthernEuropean
October 14th, 2008, 06:50 AM
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3147/2937164277_b3fa58da35_o.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3069/2937166219_d666840390_o.jpg
Observatory by Theofanis Bobotis Architects, Athens-Kolonaki area.
1821
October 14th, 2008, 06:54 AM
Thats pretty unique SouthernEuropean, good find.
Giorgio
October 14th, 2008, 07:24 AM
Wow!
Great store.
systema magicum
October 14th, 2008, 10:18 AM
Αυτό το κτήριο του Θεοφάνη Μπομπότη είναι όντως πολύ ενδιαφέρον.
gorgos
October 14th, 2008, 10:41 AM
Very nice indeed!!
Very nice way how they solved the fact that after the first 5 stories the building had to go towards the interior of the plot. The last picture is very cool with the view of Athens!
AAL
October 14th, 2008, 02:19 PM
Thanks, Systema Magicum, I didn't know the name of the architect. It is very innovative! It looks like 2 picture frames...I went in the moment it opened, not to buy anything, but just to check out the building! Really good.
SouthernEuropean
October 14th, 2008, 11:17 PM
From another angle...
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3277/2610524153_2fdcc415b2.jpg?v=0
TeddyAmsterdam
October 15th, 2008, 01:07 AM
Townhall of Gerakas, (northern Athens)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/da/POT-DimGerakas.jpg
by Architect Dimitris Potiropoulos
SouthernEuropean
October 15th, 2008, 01:10 AM
one of the best city halls in Greece imo :drool:
NickyF
October 15th, 2008, 01:26 AM
Interesting architecture indeed.
Just a thought.....
Having the best town hall does not always lead to having the best municipal governance.....
I would prefer better/improved municipal governmance....and not imposing edifaces to simpleton mayors.
ELLIN
October 16th, 2008, 11:22 PM
Town hall of Paleo Faliro
The otherwise called "Solar town hall"
http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/cc19/athenian82/445112456_fe4dd653bb_b.jpg
http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/cc19/athenian82/untitled.jpg
AAL
October 17th, 2008, 03:04 AM
Townhall of Gerakas, (northern Athens)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/da/POT-DimGerakas.jpg
by Architect Dimitris Potiropoulos
Lovely!
ovem
October 17th, 2008, 10:47 AM
Town hall of Paleo Faliro
The otherwise called "Solar town hall"
http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/cc19/athenian82/445112456_fe4dd653bb_b.jpg
http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/cc19/athenian82/untitled.jpg
wow... look quite... strange?
pilotos
October 17th, 2008, 11:40 AM
Well rather ugly one....at least the solar panels save its image a bit:D
systema magicum
October 17th, 2008, 02:44 PM
Office Bulding at Pireos Street.
Architect:
MRA http://www.mra.gr/
http://pic40.picturetrail.com/VOL384/9870812/20480791/337269851.jpg
and a new photo from their site:
http://pic40.picturetrail.com/VOL384/9870812/20464371/339082012.jpg
ELLIN
October 17th, 2008, 03:20 PM
Well rather ugly one....at least the solar panels save its image a bit:D
Opinions are opinions..
it is a lovely building...Photos are nto doing justice...
From the gardens you have straight views to the Acropolis and Lycabetous hill...
ovem
October 18th, 2008, 08:28 PM
apartment and commercial building in Pagrati Filolaou street under construction:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3222/2951567975_fb552c4642_b.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3057/2951567961_68f555c111_b.jpg
pilotos
October 20th, 2008, 10:31 AM
Opinions are opinions..
it is a lovely building...Photos are nto doing justice...
From the gardens you have straight views to the Acropolis and Lycabetous hill...
Oh well i only judge from the above pictures, which as you say may not do any justice at all, so i don't have any reason to disagree with your point of view :)
ELLIN
October 20th, 2008, 07:54 PM
Oh well i only judge from the above pictures, which as you say may not do any justice at all, so i don't have any reason to disagree with your point of view :)
Which by the way i wouldnt consider it ugly...from the photos...
NickyF
October 21st, 2008, 03:53 AM
^^It does have an "unfinished look" about it though.
Perhaps is has something to do with my conditioning, but I don't like the look of the Paleo Faliron Town Hall.....
krainer
October 21st, 2008, 03:14 PM
Well yea, the Palaio Faliro town hall is a disappointment. It does look unfinished, I'm passing by it pretty often and for about 6 months after its completion I was wondering when are they gonna finish it until I realized that they're not gonna. Well at least it's maybe the "greenest" building in Athens, its got power autonomy and some other environmental innovations.
The Gerakas town hall looks much better though.
systema magicum
October 24th, 2008, 01:13 PM
http://pic40.picturetrail.com/VOL384/9870812/20464371/340058525.jpg
http://pic40.picturetrail.com/VOL384/9870812/20464371/340058518.jpg
http://pic40.picturetrail.com/VOL384/9870812/20464371/340057519.jpg
http://pic40.picturetrail.com/VOL384/9870812/20464371/340057512.jpg
Building 7, exhibition centre of the hellenic cosmos park.
architects: anamorphosis architects,Nikos Georgiadis, Tota Mamalaki, Kostas Kakoyiannis, Vaios Zitonoulis
1821
October 24th, 2008, 01:31 PM
^^^^ Love it.
Do you know if the landscapping is finished or not? It looks unfinished
lysandros
October 27th, 2008, 12:27 AM
it looks like something nice happens at hellenic cosmos
lysandros
October 28th, 2008, 07:58 PM
http://www.holiday-in-athens.com/hotelsphotos/at/default/147_01.jpg
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/175/383955818_373a2d384f_o.jpg
http://archinspire.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/museum-architecture-design3.jpg
http://www.angeloplessas.com/blog/uploaded_images/BenakiMuseum1-789938.jpg
http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/78257/athens.jpg
http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/68028/athens_buildings_mirrors.jpg
http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/28148/athens_street.jpg
http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/73979/podilatodromio2.jpg
systema magicum
October 29th, 2008, 07:04 PM
Αστέρας Βουλιαγμένης, Πύλη και στέγαστρο.
http://pic40.picturetrail.com:80/VOL384/9870812/20464371/340330623.jpg
http://pic40.picturetrail.com:80/VOL384/9870812/20464371/340330617.jpg
http://pic40.picturetrail.com:80/VOL384/9870812/20464371/340330614.jpg
http://pic40.picturetrail.com:80/VOL384/9870812/20464371/340330610.jpg
Ρ.Σακελλαρίδου + Μ.Παπανικολάου
http://www.sparch.gr/
Almopos
November 10th, 2008, 06:26 PM
Some nice contemporary architecture can be found on the following website:
www.epqr.gr
Some of the buildings have already been constructed!
systema magicum
December 26th, 2008, 04:11 PM
A very impressive building houses a shipping company in Piraeus… a very contemporary design, especially for the Greek standards. It is sad that I don’t know the architect…any contribution is welcomed!:):):)
http://pic40.picturetrail.com/VOL384/9870812/21246323/348624264.jpg
http://pic40.picturetrail.com/VOL384/9870812/21246323/348623794.jpg
http://pic40.picturetrail.com/VOL384/9870812/21246323/348623849.jpg
http://pic40.picturetrail.com/VOL384/9870812/21246323/348624116.jpg
http://pic40.picturetrail.com/VOL384/9870812/21246323/348624173.jpg
photos taken by systema magicum
lysandros
December 26th, 2008, 08:27 PM
i love this building me,probably its my favourite modern building in greece.
in that area of pireas there are a few more interesting modern buildings
ovem
December 27th, 2008, 02:32 PM
wow! this building its really amazing! i havent seen it before!
gm2263
December 28th, 2008, 02:20 PM
You can also access my pictures from this building here:
http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=3konstantinoupalaiologoustreet-piraeus-greece
systema magicum
January 5th, 2009, 06:15 PM
http://pic40.picturetrail.com/VOL384/9870812/21246323/349970670.jpg
το νεο κτήριο των εκδόσεων Πατάκη.
photo by systema magicum:nuts:
emailspyro
January 5th, 2009, 07:21 PM
I kinda like it... It serves almost as a transition to the two adjoing buildings...
SouthernEuropean
January 5th, 2009, 08:39 PM
i really like these pics. it is very difficult to contribute modern architecture to old architecture. it is difficult to merge the two styles and get the effect just right, in order to be asthetically pleasing as a whole. these buildings work. i will be uploading some pics soon of buildings around athens.
lysandros
January 17th, 2009, 09:16 PM
http://www.holiday-in-athens.com/hotelsphotos/at/default/147_01.jpg
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/175/383955818_373a2d384f_o.jpg
http://archinspire.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/museum-architecture-design3.jpg
http://www.angeloplessas.com/blog/uploaded_images/BenakiMuseum1-789938.jpg
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c94/gm2263/Athens%20Skyscrapers%20and%20Modern%20Architecture%204/Piraeus-3KonstantinouPalaiologou-1.jpg
http://en.structurae.de/files/photos/2055/p9210042.jpg
systema magicum
February 3rd, 2009, 10:42 PM
GEK Group Headquarters, Athens, 2003
http://pic40.picturetrail.com/VOL384/9870812/20464371/353578650.jpg
http://pic40.picturetrail.com/VOL384/9870812/20464371/353578656.jpg
Michael Hopkins Architects http://www.hopkins.co.uk/
http://www.hopkins.co.uk/projects/_5,79/
systema magicum
February 3rd, 2009, 11:00 PM
Commercial building
http://pic40.picturetrail.com/VOL384/9870812/20464371/353578643.jpg
http://pic40.picturetrail.com/VOL384/9870812/20464371/353579476.jpg
http://pic40.picturetrail.com/VOL384/9870812/20464371/353579479.jpg
ISV+B Development
http://www.isv.gr/isvb/
Lucretius
February 3rd, 2009, 11:11 PM
Ενδιαφέρον!
systema magicum
February 4th, 2009, 06:45 PM
Office building in Athens.
http://pic40.picturetrail.com:80/VOL384/9870812/20464371/353578633.jpg
ovem
February 4th, 2009, 10:05 PM
^^ this building is very nice. its the one on akadimias st. next to esiea building right? unfortunately you can't see any of its beauty during the night. someone to light this building please?!!??!!
systema magicum
February 4th, 2009, 10:42 PM
nai sthn akadhmias einai :)
systema magicum
February 4th, 2009, 10:45 PM
Συγκρότημα Kτιρίου Γραφείων
mobarchitects
Bασίλης Mπασκόζος
Δαρεία Tσαγκαράκη
http://www.mobarchitects.gr/
http://pic40.picturetrail.com/VOL384/9870812/20464371/353694564.jpg
http://pic40.picturetrail.com/VOL384/9870812/20464371/353694747.jpg
http://pic40.picturetrail.com/VOL384/9870812/20464371/353694566.jpg
systema magicum
February 6th, 2009, 05:41 PM
Office space for digital media company F-zein.
KLab architects
www.klab.gr
http://pic40.picturetrail.com/VOL384/9870812/20464371/353901643.jpg
http://pic40.picturetrail.com/VOL384/9870812/20464371/353901637.jpg
http://pic40.picturetrail.com/VOL384/9870812/20464371/353901645.jpg
http://pic40.picturetrail.com/VOL384/9870812/20464371/353901647.jpg
http://pic40.picturetrail.com/VOL384/9870812/20464371/353896447.jpg
http://pic40.picturetrail.com/VOL384/9870812/20464371/353896442.jpg
lysandros
February 25th, 2009, 12:44 AM
afto to thread pios tha to anasthsei??
lysandros
April 12th, 2009, 12:37 PM
Office building,Athens
http://www.e-architect.co.uk/athens/jpgs/athens_office_building_kalliri230309_cl_1.jpg
http://www.e-architect.co.uk/athens/jpgs/athens_office_building_kalliri230309_cl_2.jpg
http://www.e-architect.co.uk/athens/jpgs/athens_office_building_kalliri230309_cl_4.jpg
http://www.e-architect.co.uk/athens/athens_office_building.htm
lysandros
April 12th, 2009, 12:45 PM
^^diavaste kai to ar8ro sthn ka8hmerinh gia afto to kthrio.
Sto telous tou keimenou kanei anafora kai sto skyscrapercity.com
http://news.kathimerini.gr/4dcgi/_w_articles_civ_230_12/04/2009_310510
asot
April 12th, 2009, 01:18 PM
^^Ωραίο κτήριο, δεν το είχα προσέξει. Σε ένα τέτοιο θα ήθελα να εργάζομαι.:)
Σε ποιο thread βρίσκεται η αναφορά του Ρηγόπουλου?
gm2263
April 12th, 2009, 05:41 PM
Κάπου είχα γράψει εγώ κάποιες σκέψεις μου, ότι η οδός Πειραιώς θα έπρεπε να είναι ένα μείγμα νεοκλασικών κτιρίων όχι πάνω από 4 πατώματα τα οποία θα μπορούσαν να εναλλάσσονται με μοντέρνα χαμηλά κτίρια του στυλ "Ελληνικός κόσμος" ή το νέο μουσείο Μπενάκη.
Δυστυχώς, όπως είχα γράψει και παλαιότερα, δεν υπάρχει το όραμα για αυτή την πόλη και αυτό αποδεικνύεται από πολλά έργα και ημέρες του δημάρχου. Σαν επακόλουθο της έλλειψης οράματος έρχεται και η αποσπασματική κατασκευή και χωροθέτηση κτιρίων έτσι στη μέση του πουθενά, όπως είναι ΠΧ το "Fashion Hotel" στην Πλατεία Ομονοίας αλλά και το νέο κτίριο των εκδόσεων Πατάκη τα οποία ακουμπούν σε ένα από τα βρωμερότερα γκέτο της Ευρώπης αλλά φυσικά κανείς δεν ενδιαφέρεται, εκτός αν κάποιος τους πει ότι συντελεί αρνητικά στις δημοσκοπήσεις οπότε μπορεί και να ενδιαφερθούν αν δεν μπορούν να το κουκουλώσουν.
Άσε που κινδυνεύουν και τα δυο προαναφερθέντα κτίρια να λαμπαδιάσουν στην επόμενη "εξέγερση" εφόσον ως γνωστόν ότι λάμπει δημιουργεί περίεργες αντιδράσεις στο μυαλό των "επαναστατών", ιδίως αν λάβουμε υπόψη και τα απροσδιορίστου προέλευσης ληγμένα που πίνουν.
Εν κατακλείδι: καλές όλες οι μεμονωμένες προσπάθειες αλλά δεν βλέπω μια συνολική στρατηγική και ένα master plan. Οι ιδιώτες μπορούν να κάνουν πολλά πράγματα αλλά η υπόθεση θέλει και μια συνεκτική δράση από πλευράς πολιτείας. Αλλιώς, θα είναι λίγο περίεργο το όλο σκηνικό να γίνονται φιλολογικές συνεστιάσεις μέσα στο κτίριο και απέξω να ψυχορραγούν πρεζόνια.
skyduster
April 13th, 2009, 12:03 AM
I LOVE:
http://pic40.picturetrail.com/VOL384/9870812/20480791/335310257.jpg
Very elegant building. Brick and stone should not be overlooked by contemporary architects, even in more modernist-style buildings, these timeless building materials never disappoint.
http://pic40.picturetrail.com/VOL384/9870812/20464371/339082012.jpg
delightfully creative architecture
http://pic40.picturetrail.com/VOL384/9870812/20480791/337271900.jpg
Every big city should have an elegant Calatrava piece
http://pic40.picturetrail.com/VOL384/9870812/20480791/337274219.jpg
Creative use of brick and blue glass, and positioned in a corner so that the building complements, rather than overwhelm, its neoclassical neighbors on Kotzia Square. This building earns my kudos.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3069/2937166219_d666840390_o.jpghttp://farm4.static.flickr.com/3277/2610524153_2fdcc415b2.jpg
Absolutely beautiful building that's also street-friendly and neighborhood-friendly.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/da/POT-DimGerakas.jpg
Artistic and attractive.
http://pic40.picturetrail.com/VOL384/9870812/20464371/340058518.jpghttp://pic40.picturetrail.com/VOL384/9870812/20464371/340057519.jpg
Another highly aesthetic and creative building, with pleasant walkable space surrounding it. Good choice to use rocks over lawn.
http://pic40.picturetrail.com/VOL384/9870812/20464371/353579479.jpg
very nice!
http://pic40.picturetrail.com/VOL384/9870812/20464371/353901643.jpg
Very creative, and it works very well
http://www.e-architect.co.uk/athens/jpgs/athens_office_building_kalliri230309_cl_4.jpg
No water-guzzling lawn! :applause:Using native plants! :applause:
I HATE:
http://briefcase.pathfinder.gr/download/gm22634/40271/483568/0/Athens+-+Onassion+Cardiac+Surgery+Center+-small+.jpg
This building looks extremely hostile, and uses scarce urban space in a highly inefficient manner. More bulk could have been added to the upper floors, to free up the ground for walkable space and vegetation. Looks like a nightmarish concrete wedding cake.
http://briefcase.pathfinder.gr/download/gm22634/40271/483544/0/Athens+-+Hondos+Center+2-small.jpg
I always hated the Omonoia Hondos Center. This architecture is inexcusable for a post-1985 building. Who thought it was cool to bring brutalism back?
http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/cc19/athenian82/untitled.jpg
Either they decided to finish the landscaping before finishing the building, or this is a bad attempt at modern architecture.
http://briefcase.pathfinder.gr/download/gm22634/36693/483591/0/Hummer+2.JPG
It's not a building, but I hate these cars. Hummers are anti-urban gas-guzzling pieces of shit σαράβαλα for people that crave status. Cars the size of a house not belong in big cities. And there's probably a reason it's for sale...the engine is a piece of shit
TeddyAmsterdam
April 13th, 2009, 01:36 AM
I LOVE
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2215/2352877470_fa1f58fa55_o.jpg
Tobazis Talking
I HATE
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v671/MetroGardian/ktizon/interamerican/tn_Interamerican_HQ_2.jpg
Cirque Du Sooo lame!
asot
April 13th, 2009, 08:49 AM
skyduster, I agree with all your preferences. Hondo Center buildings are so ugly, especially the one in Omonia Sq!
TeddyAmsterdam, I like the Interamerican building, I think it is a nice mix of neoclassicism and modernism.
TeddyAmsterdam
April 13th, 2009, 08:10 PM
TeddyAmsterdam, I like the Interamerican building, I think it is a nice mix of neoclassicism and modernism.
Las Vegas claims the same ... :horse:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/Charles_Moore_Piazza_d%27Italia.jpg
personal opinion, i know, but i really hate postmodernism.
asot
April 13th, 2009, 09:55 PM
Las Vegas claims the same ...
come on, it is not the same....The Interamerican building doesn't look like disneyland. It balances between modernism and neo classicism without creating a strong contrast. Maybe, this photo wasn't good enough.
Modern and classical/traditional/industrial elements can work well together, as long as they create one seamless image. This can be more difficult to achieve than using just one style. However it can be a challenge.
Of-course,as you said, it is just a personal opinion.:)
gm2263
April 17th, 2009, 11:41 PM
A new addition in the roundabout junction of Kifissias Avenue and Attica road on 6 Chimarras street. It is under completion, not exaclty a gem but a decent development. Of course, imagine it five times taller :D
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c94/gm2263/Athens%20Skyscrapers%20and%20Modern%20Architecture%205/6CheimarrasStr-1-small900x.jpg
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c94/gm2263/Athens%20Skyscrapers%20and%20Modern%20Architecture%205/6CheimarrasStr-2-small900x.jpg
A very big minus in this pic is the toll station of the Attica road. They could have done better with this one as it is an eyesore.
Tomorrow I will go there early in the morning. There are a few new gems in need of depiction. Looks like after a period of a few years inertia, there is activity again. As expected, nothing taller than seven floors though :(
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c94/gm2263/Athens%20Skyscrapers%20and%20Modern%20Architecture%205/6CheimarrasStr-3-small900x.jpg
...and yes, I am making a slow comeback after this bleak winter...
TeddyAmsterdam
April 18th, 2009, 01:57 AM
toso tha sou eftane?
(sorry for the bad rendering.. :goodnight)
http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk24/Oh_Teddy/MockTower.jpg
lysandros
April 18th, 2009, 02:46 AM
Ele more kai sy twra,afou ton 3ereis to gm...tsigounies 8a kanoume?fortose!!!
gm2263
April 18th, 2009, 07:52 AM
Καλά εσείς θέλετε να με στείλετε αδιάβαστο πασχαλιάτικα... :eek:
Stay tuned γιατι έρχονται κι' άλλα :).
systema magicum
April 18th, 2009, 05:11 PM
koita pou psilotero einai ligotero xali....ta gnwsta greek kthria ths mh arxitektonikhs...h ths mizerhs development...
gm2263
April 18th, 2009, 06:36 PM
Αν ήταν τέλη της δεκαετίας του 80, θα το θαύμαζα. Αν θέλετε να δείτε κάτι ανάλογο ψηλότερο, φυσικά στους γείτονες που έχουν ξεφύγει, κλικ ΕΔΩ (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=287558)
Βέβαια το προαναφερόμενο "στη γειτονική χώρα", για Trump Towers σάματις κοινότυπο σχέδιο μου φαίνεται αλλά ας κοιτάμε τα χάλια μας στο συγκεκριμένο τομέα...
somataki
April 18th, 2009, 06:52 PM
Αν ήταν τέλη της δεκαετίας του 80, θα το θαύμαζα. Αν θέλετε να δείτε κάτι ανάλογο ψηλότερο, φυσικά στους γείτονες που έχουν ξεφύγει, κλικ ΕΔΩ (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=287558)
Βέβαια το προαναφερόμενο "στη γειτονική χώρα", για Trump Towers σάματις κοινότυπο σχέδιο μου φαίνεται αλλά ας κοιτάμε τα χάλια μας στο συγκεκριμένο τομέα...
Koinotypo koinotypo kai 80's alla emena den ta me xalage katholu na vlepa Trump Towers sto daxtylidi tids Kifisias, estw kai to to 2015!!!!
http://i42.tinypic.com/2w3xta9.jpg
gm2263
April 22nd, 2009, 09:37 PM
OK :)
GrigorisSokratis
April 22nd, 2009, 11:02 PM
Εγώ πάντως δεν μπορώ να καταλάβω, πώς σε έναν κόσμο όπου σήμερα γίνονται τεράστια έργα, σε ΟΛΕΣ τις μεγαλουπόλεις και ακόμα και μικρότερες, 200, 300, 400, 500 και 600 μέτρων, και εμείς εδώ ακόμα είμαστε κολλημένοι στα 27!!!!!!! Έχετε σκεφτεί ποτέ ότι σε άλλες χώρες κατασκευάζονται κτίρια 20-25 φορές ψηλότερα από τα δικά μας.....επιβλητικά σύγχρονων προδιαγραφών κτίρια, που τα διαφημίζουν στις ιστοσελίδες των αρχιτεκτόνων που τα έχουν σχεδιάσει, σαν να ήταν Chicago Spire.....
Έχετε σκεφτεί ποτέ οτι σήμερα ενα 200αρι δε θεωρείται super-tall και ότι στα φορουμ του SCC που ασχολούνται με ουρανοξύστες έχουν φτιάξει 3 subforum ένα με Supertalls +300, άλλο με Skyscrapers 200-299 και ένα για Highrises +100. Εμείς βέβαια δεν έχουμε τίποτα να δείξουμε σε αυτά τα 3, αλλά θα ντρεπόμουν να δείξω ακόμα και αυτά τα κτίρια σύγχρονων προδιαγραφών που κατασκευάζονται στην Αθήνα, στο 4ο φορουμ της σειράς που ονομάζεται General Urban Developments για χαμηλότερα κτίρια, διότι τα περισσότερα είναι +50!!!!!! Δηλαδή τι θα δείξουμε εκεί, το μπάχαλο που επικρατεί εδώ με σχέδια που θυμίζουν μάλλον δεκαετία του 90 και κτίρια 20-27μ?!!!!
Εγώ αν ήμουν ένας από αυτούς τους αρχιτέκτονες που πάνε σε διεθνή συνέδρια και πρέπει να συναντήσουν τους συναδέλφους τους από άλλες χώρες, που σχεδιάζουν τους ΠΡΑΓΜΑΤΙΚΑ επιβλητικούς ουρανοξύστες μάλλον δε θα τολμούσα να τους δείξω τα σχέδια μου πού ισως θα τους θυμίζουν τα πρώτα τους έργα όταν μόλις αποφοίτησαν από το πανεπιστήμιο και δεν είχαν πείρα.
27, κυριες και κυριοι, 27!!!! και έχουμε 2009!!!!!!!! Απίστευτο!!!!
gm2263
April 23rd, 2009, 12:05 AM
Dear Greg and the rest,
I already posted a LOOOOOONG post in the "Athens General Developments" thread. At the risk of being accused with spamming, I also post it here as follows since I realized that there are many images of contemporary buildings too. Now, in conjunction to what Greg says, and after you see what's next, feel free to comment on the developments in our city.
All pics but one are two weeks old at most (yes, been busy) at the time of this posting :)
Enjoy!!!
During the last few days (Greek Orthodox Easter, remember, vacation, and a happy me in the empty streets :)) I nicked some time to go around Athens and especially in the main north-south corridor, I.e. Kifissias to Syggrou Avenues where as it seems, there's some activity going on there as far as commercial/ office construction is concerned.
In this context, on good Friday and Saturday I proceeded to one of my "grand photo tours". Truth is that in my eyes, there was enough sunshine that would allow for some decent photo-shooting, something to replace the bleak weather -and psychology- we have all benn constantly exposed to in Athens during the last few months.
So let it begin with some comments and explanations where necessary. All pics are mine unless otherwise indicated.
...yes, I'm back!!! :)
-New buildings in Kifissias and Attica road "cake" roundabout junction. Decent lowrises but nothing to be thrilled about.
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c94/gm2263/Athens%20Skyscrapers%20and%20Modern%20Architecture%205/Athens-Maroussi-LowrisesonChimar-1.jpg
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c94/gm2263/Athens%20Skyscrapers%20and%20Modern%20Architecture%205/Athens-Maroussi-LowrisesonChimarras.jpg
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c94/gm2263/Athens%20Skyscrapers%20and%20Modern%20Architecture%205/6CheimarrasStr-1-small900x.jpg
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c94/gm2263/Athens%20Skyscrapers%20and%20Modern%20Architecture%205/6CheimarrasStr-2-small900x.jpg
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c94/gm2263/Athens%20Skyscrapers%20and%20Modern%20Architecture%205/6CheimarrasStr-3-small900x.jpg
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c94/gm2263/Athens%20Skyscrapers%20and%20Modern%20Architecture%205/8CheimarrasStr-1-small900x.jpg
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c94/gm2263/Athens%20Skyscrapers%20and%20Modern%20Architecture%205/8CheimarrasStr-2-small900x.jpg
The next is on Kifissias Avenue, just before the intersection with Panormou street as we come from the north. It was never presented here although it is quite interesting. Its name is "Cosmos Center" and was built as a shopping center during the late 1980s. However, it never attained its goal to become a retail destination and now is mostly accommodates offices and public services if I my memory serves me well... Very decent for the time and the purpose it was built (1987!!!).
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c94/gm2263/Athens%20Skyscrapers%20and%20Modern%20Architecture%205/125-127KifissiasAvenue-1-small900x.jpg
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c94/gm2263/Athens%20Skyscrapers%20and%20Modern%20Architecture%205/125-127KifissiasAvenue-2-small900x.jpg
Next to it, there is a new addition under construction with some "loud" names appearing on its info billboard like the ones of Alexandros Tombazis and "Meletitiki Ltd" and Ioannis Vikelas as co-architect!!! Has been on hold for some years but now it seems to be heading full thrust towards completion. Nothing very fancy on the exterior,not something very good or very bad. I will need to visit it once it is completed. In any case, it is good to see that there is serious activity in various parts of Athens these days.
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c94/gm2263/Athens%20Skyscrapers%20and%20Modern%20Architecture%205/111KifissiasAvenue-ConstructionPhot.jpg
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c94/gm2263/Athens%20Skyscrapers%20and%20Modern%20Architecture%205/111KifissiasAvenue-ConstructionP-1.jpg
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c94/gm2263/Athens%20Skyscrapers%20and%20Modern%20Architecture%205/111KifissiasAvenue-ConstructionP-2.jpg
Next stop is Kallirois Avenue, where there are a few interesting spote probably never seen in this forum before.
One is the Ministry of Interior, which I certainly don't like it for the purpose it serves. I mean, if it was used as head offices for an X company, that would be fine. I find it a little cheap in terms of external appearance in relation to its use as a ministry, with the positive point that it presents some originality in design, compared to the concrete boxes surrounding it:
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c94/gm2263/Athens%20Skyscrapers%20and%20Modern%20Architecture%205/MinistryofInterior-small900x.jpg
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c94/gm2263/Athens%20Skyscrapers%20and%20Modern%20Architecture%205/MinistryofInterior-2-small900x.jpg
On the contrary, I find that the next building has more luster, completed late 70 or early 80s. Its characteristic is its size, practically occupying a whole block. Also ahead of its time, it looks good, especially from across the street and makes a good visual ensemble with the bus station on the Syggrou Avenue metro station. A modern spot in this city :)
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c94/gm2263/Athens%20Skyscrapers%20and%20Modern%20Architecture%205/80-88SyggrouAvenue-4-small900x.jpg
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c94/gm2263/Athens%20Skyscrapers%20and%20Modern%20Architecture%205/80-88SyggrouAvenue-3-small900x.jpg
Next to the station, there is the "shell" of the old Fix brewery, built by the the architect Zenetos which is -at last!!!- transformed into a Modern Arts Museum with completion time around 2011-2012:
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c94/gm2263/Athens%20Skyscrapers%20and%20Modern%20Architecture%205/ModertArtMuseum-Small900x.jpg
This is also a dramatic view of the Athens Intercontinental Hotel seen from this area. Worth a look:
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c94/gm2263/Athens%20Skyscrapers%20and%20Modern%20Architecture%205/KalliroisAvenuetowardsIntercontinen.jpg
If 12 storeys look like this, imagine whet 30 would look like :(
Arriving in Syggrou Avenue, there are some things that we need to go though first:
This Avenue is, since 1980 partly a highway which according to some (including me, if you asked me...) divides a large part of Athens into two. The reason for this is that there is no ground pedestrian (or other street) crossing from one side of the avenue to the other, with the existing underground passages looking too risky at night (i.e. have you seen the rape scene in "Irreversible"? :runaway:
What is interesting about this avenue is that during the late 1960s and early 1970s and that at the time that Kifissias Avenue looked like a country road and the site of the Olympic complex was nothing but an olive grove, Suggrou had this characteristic of a long and straight boulevard that could have been the next promise for Athenian cosmopolitanism. Office buildings, access to the seafront, and the promise of a new Athens unfolding in the air, were its major advantages.
Today, almost four decades later, the Avenue clearly does not look like the superhighway to the 21st century, compared to the luckier Kifissias Avenue.
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c94/gm2263/Athens%20Skyscrapers%20and%20Modern%20Architecture%205/SyggrouAvenue-small900x.jpg
However, it still has a lot of cards under its sleeve, with many buildings far surpassing the blue Glass Boxes of Kifissias Avenue and some of its spots are well ahead Kifissias Avenue which only wins because of the neighboring Olympic Stadium (Calatrava marked its passage there) and the new shopping centers in its vicinity. However, Syggrou has the view of the sea in the distance, as well as a number of buildings that put to the shame all Kifissias Office buildings built after 1995 (sorry dear Babis Vovos!!!). Especially with regards to the developments that took place after the millennium, with the exception of the OAKA and the arches of the new "Avenue-Carrefour" Mall, nothing really exciting happened there, especially as far as office construction is concerned.
On the contrary, Syggrou avenue has slowly but surely start to rebuild its image with some of the best commercial and not only developments in this country such as the National Insurance buildings (http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/cx/?id=110341) designed by Mario Botta in collaboration with some young Greek architects, or the new Onassis House for the letters and the arts which is nearing completion and is expected to be fully operational in 2010:
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c94/gm2263/Athens%20Skyscrapers%20and%20Modern%20Architecture%205/OnassisHouseofLetters7-Construction.jpg
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c94/gm2263/Athens%20Skyscrapers%20and%20Modern%20Architecture%205/OnassisHouseofLetters8-Construction.jpg
Also, interesing enough is the nearby Odeon StarCity Cinema Multiplex which was also completed in 2000:
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c94/gm2263/Athens%20Skyscrapers%20and%20Modern%20Architecture%205/ODEONStarCity-2-small900x.jpg
...as well as the new ATE Insurance building:
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c94/gm2263/Athens%20Skyscrapers%20and%20Modern%20Architecture%205/163SyggrouAvenue-small900x.jpg
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c94/gm2263/Athens%20Skyscrapers%20and%20Modern%20Architecture%205/163SyggrouAvenue-2-small900x.jpg
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c94/gm2263/Athens%20Skyscrapers%20and%20Modern%20Architecture%205/163SyggrouAvenue-3-small900x.jpg
Another building which is also VERY IMPRESSIVE and was recently completed, is the one of "Hydrogeios" (i.e. "Globe") Insurance. Please take a moment to enjoy how this little gem looks and imagine what a similar buildingh might look like if the height limits and the building code were not as stupid as they are in this country:
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c94/gm2263/Athens%20Skyscrapers%20and%20Modern%20Architecture%205/254-258SyggrouAvenue-small900x.jpg
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c94/gm2263/Athens%20Skyscrapers%20and%20Modern%20Architecture%205/254-258SyggrouAvenue-2-small900x.jpg
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c94/gm2263/Athens%20Skyscrapers%20and%20Modern%20Architecture%205/254-258SyggrouAvenue-3-small900x.jpg
Also, one should NOT forget that in the neighborhood of the Interamerican Tower (http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=165799) in Kallithea, there are constant additions, and that the end of Doiranis street (which leads to the site of the new Athens Library and Opera to be built, designed by Rentzo Piano) looks something like this:
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c94/gm2263/Athens%20Skyscrapers%20and%20Modern%20Architecture%205/DoiranisStreetKallitheasmall900x.jpg
...while finally, on the opposite side we have a new Birth and Materity hospital under construction bearing the name "REA Maternity Hospital"
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c94/gm2263/Athens%20Skyscrapers%20and%20Modern%20Architecture%205/REAMaterityHospital-Rendering-small.jpg
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c94/gm2263/Athens%20Skyscrapers%20and%20Modern%20Architecture%205/REAMaterityHospital-constructionApr.jpg
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So, "what's the story, morning glory"?
First, Syggrou is re-gaining its status as the city gate from the seafront which one way or another will be transformed in the next few years (the "crisis" will not go on forever!!!). Kifissias Avenue certainly has more potential but sees it to be dramatically decreased with the reactions of the NIMBYS and the attainement of the role of a retail center as an alternative to the one of the office provider. Also, by reading through the lines in the real estate news, one can easily observe that even in this time of crisis, Kifissias Avenue is seen as the top place to be, in terms of office locations.
However, due to a strange combination of down-planning, reactionary NIMBYS and lack of resolve on the part of the state, there is an unreal concentration of shopping and entertainment centers in Kifissias Avenue and the neighboring Attica Road while there IS some serious demand from high caliber clients for office space (regardless of the fact that the crisis has affected the medium users, high-end demand is there).
On the other hand, although a second choice for years, Syggrou is going uphill with many NEW office constructions in the pipeline. I mean, how many office buildings have you seen been completed lately in Kifissias? Because in Syggrou, they may be anything from half a dozen and up for the last three years alone.
Now of course I believe that this is a minuscule level of activity, even in the middle of such a "crisis". In any case though, Syggrou is making a comeback at the expense of Kifissias, the Kifissos Avenue and the national road Athens - Lamia, or the Athinon (Kavalas) Avenue, which still has to fulfill its promise as the next commercial property center in Athens.
Overall, I was slightly impressed but where the situation will go, it is within the next few months to be determined. Till then, we should not at least forget that in contrast to the ambient gloom since this last December, "something's moving".
...all that of course until the blessed day when, somewhere in the Athens metro area, a building with a two-digit number of floors will be nearing top out, and a new day will dawn for most of us here....
AAL
April 23rd, 2009, 12:11 PM
I HATE
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v671/MetroGardian/ktizon/interamerican/tn_Interamerican_HQ_2.jpg
Cirque Du Sooo lame!
I disagree. It's no Las Vegas - it's actually a very nice piece of postmodern architecture. The denial of people in Greece to accept this style shows, if you ask me, a very conservative attitude, which reminds me of the attitude of some classicist in the early 20th century towards modernism. Our current tradition is modernism, so the denial to accept anything that has followed modernism is no different to the denial of the classicists to accept modernism.
It's easy to make kitsch buildings and call them postmodern - but this is not one of them. It's built by Porphyrios, a well-known UK-based Greek architect that has built many many buildings around the world.
http://www.porphyrios.co.uk/
This style has been dominant since the '90s in London - but here, as usual, we are still debating the priciples of postmodernism...
Check out the amazing MI6 building
http://www.londonleben.co.uk/london_leben/pictures/government.jpg
the stunning Embankment Place
http://www.thecityreview.com/arcnowu.jpg
More postmodernism in London...
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/99/298556042_3f96b87819.jpg?v=0
http://www.ontarioarchitecture.com/caplon500.jpg
http://www.friezefoundation.org/images/commissions/pablo.jpg
http://pro.corbis.com/images/42-18156140.jpg?size=67&uid={53517E75-C4AA-40F5-B60B-01F3795DF50C}
All these would be (and are) ridiculed in Greece.
AAL
April 23rd, 2009, 12:17 PM
I would also like to add that, despite being a big skyscraper fan, I would NOT like to see anything tall in Syngrou. The view of the city sloping from the Acropolis to the sea is magic and should not be disturbed. I'd rather demolish and rebuilt 60% of the buildings in Kifisias (and 95% of the buildings in Mesogeion!!!)
lysandros
April 23rd, 2009, 12:30 PM
To sygekrimeno ktirio emena den me enoxlei ka8olou.Exei thn dikh tou prosopikothta kai sygoura pros8etei kai afto kati sthn arxhtektonikh ths polhs.
Parola afta omos sygoura tipota to e3eretiko.
gm2263
April 23rd, 2009, 01:25 PM
@ Teddy Amsterdam
Allow me to disagree about this building dear Teddy. It has some elements of post-modernism that give it some weird tones but this does no0t make it THAT offensive. On the contrary, given the procrustean 27m height limit and its distinctive location, I believe that it serves the city quite well... :)
Look here for instance at the following picture (2005) depicting the Syggrou and Kallirois junction and the position of the building in question. Not bad :)
http://briefcase.pathfinder.gr/download/gm22634/35743/482640/0/Syggrou+Kallirois+Small.JPG
@ AAL: I agree about the Syggrou situation with a minor reservation: I believe that up to 12 storeys could have been built anyway.
Other than that, I fully and wholeheartedly agree with you especially about the situation in Messogeion, Kifissias, and the rest.
Lucretius
April 23rd, 2009, 02:35 PM
Ο,τι να'ναι! Με εξιτάρει ιδιαίτερα το μπαλκόνι (ε;) κάτω από το σπασμένο αέτωμα (εε;) κάτω από το μεταλικό γείσο (εεε;). Τρικυμία εν κρανίω.
asot
April 23rd, 2009, 02:48 PM
^^Kai omos, ego pisteyo pos san sinolo leitourgei kala. Deixnoun ola na denoun se mia eikona, kai as yparxoyn aytes oi perierges leptomeries..Episis live fainetai kalytero apo oti stis fotografies aytes
gm2263
April 23rd, 2009, 03:16 PM
Ο,τι να'ναι! Με εξιτάρει ιδιαίτερα το μπαλκόνι (ε;) κάτω από το σπασμένο αέτωμα (εε;) κάτω από το μεταλικό γείσο (εεε;). Τρικυμία εν κρανίω.
...είναι για να βγαίνει ο πρόεδρος στον καθαρό αέρα της Συγγρού :nuts: άμα είναι συγχυσμένος μετά από μια έντονη σύσκεψη και αφού πρώτα έχει απολύσει πέντ-έξη διευθυντάδες για πρωινό για να ηρεμήσει. Α, ρε Luke δεν τα πιάνεις!!! :lol:
somataki
April 23rd, 2009, 05:16 PM
Kserei kapios an yparxun ktiria stin Athina epireasmena apo to revma tu brutalismu??
Soul_13
April 23rd, 2009, 05:28 PM
That's my favourite Porfurios development
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/05/ThreeBrindleyplaceBirmingham_CopyrightKaihsuTai.JPG
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/0e/Brindleyplace.jpg/450px-Brindleyplace.jpg
asot
April 23rd, 2009, 05:37 PM
Kserei kapios an yparxun ktiria stin Athina epireasmena apo to revma tu brutalismu??
Μπορεί να πω βλακεία...
Τι λέτε για το κτήριο Θεολογικής Σχολής Αθηνών?
http://www.theol.uoa.gr/assets/images/sxoli.jpg
gm2263
April 23rd, 2009, 05:51 PM
Kserei kapios an yparxun ktiria stin Athina epireasmena apo to revma tu brutalismu??
Ορίστε μερικά που έχω καταγράψει:
Το Υπουργείο Δημόσιας τάξης, λεωφόρος Κατεχάκη
http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=148980
Εμπορική Τράπεζα, Αθήνα
http://www.emporis.com/en/il/im/?id=193643
Πύργος Ελέγχου Λιμένος Πειραιώς
http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=vtsvtmistower-piraeus-greece
Συγκρότημα Κατοικιών Δίφρος, Αθήνα
http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=dhifrosapartmentcomplex-astreetns-greece
ΑLPHA BANK Πειραιάς
http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=9ethnikisantistaseos-piraeus-greece
somataki
April 23rd, 2009, 06:03 PM
Thanx!
systema magicum
April 23rd, 2009, 06:46 PM
Ο πύργος ελέγχου του λιμανιού δεν έχει σχέση χρονολογικά ή φορμαλιστικά , απλά είναι τερατούργημα με μηδαμινή αρχιτεκτονική αξία…αντιθέτως η θεολογική σχολή είναι ένα καλό δείγμα αυτού του ρεύματος…
gm2263
April 23rd, 2009, 06:50 PM
Ο πύργος ελέγχου του λιμανιού δεν έχει σχέση χρονολογικά ή φορμαλιστικά , απλά είναι τερατούργημαμε μηδαμινή αρχιτεκτονική αξία…
Χαχαχαχα, σωστή παρατήρηση... :ohno::nuts:
systema magicum
April 23rd, 2009, 07:10 PM
To κτήριο της interamerican είναι ίσως το αρτιότερο τοπικό δείγμα αυτού του είδους μεταμοντερνισμού χωρίς να είναι κιτς ή…δεύτερο, όπως οι περισσότερες ανάλογες προσπάθειες στην Αθήνα. Εξαιρετικά σύγχρονο στις επιλογές των υλικών του και στο φινίρισμά θα μπορούσε να είναι ένα από τα πολλά αντίστοιχα στο city ή γύρω από την πλατεία του Αγίου Παύλου…μακάρι να είχαμε και άλλα τέτοια στην Αθήνα τουλάχιστον σε σχέση με την μέτρια ή άθλια αρχιτεκτονική παραγωγή.
Είναι λυπηρό αλλά στην Αθήνα ακόμα και σήμερα σπάνια συναντάς ένα καλοφτιαγμένο κτήριο γραφείων με μια στοιχειώδη επαφή με την αρχιτεκτονική του σήμερα έστω σε εμπορικό επίπεδο…τα παραπάνω δείγματα ( Αττική οδό κλπ) το φανερώνουν άλλωστε…γιατί αν βάλουμε και το κτήριο του Τομπάζη να σταθεί σε σοβαρή κριτική χωρίς την λογική του οκ για Αθήνα καλό είναι, πολύ απλά δεν στέκει σε σχέση με αντίστοιχα τού εξωτερικού. Παρωχημένη προσέγγιση πασπαλισμένη με βιοκλιματική ευαισθησία…οκ. Όλα αυτά όταν ψάχνουμε με το τουφέκι έστω ένα αξιοπρεπές τετραώροφο κτήριο γραφείων σε μια πόλη 4 και εκατομμυρίων…χμμ ποιος ακριβώς θα έχτιζε ουρανοξύστες?
gm2263
April 23rd, 2009, 07:34 PM
Εγώ πιστεύω ότι υπάρχουν υποψήφιοι. Απλά, κανένας δεν τους ενθάρρυνε αλλά όλοι φοβήθηκαν την κατακραυγή εκτός από κανα-δυο που τους μνημονεύουμε εδώ πέρα.
Αλήθεια systema, για το κτίριο αυτό (http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=174607) πχ του Τομπάζη τι λες στη Συγγρού; (πρώτο από δεξιά στην επόμενη φωτό, δική μου, 2005)
http://briefcase.pathfinder.gr/download/gm22634/40271/483541/0/Athens+-+Syggrou+buildings+2005+Version+2-+small.JPG
Επίσης νομίζω ότι οι νόμοι είναι τόσο ασφυκτικοί που λόγω των περιορισμών ΔΕΝ μπορεί να υπάρξει πειραματισμός με τη μορφή αλλά μόνο με το είδος των υλικών. Αν επιτρεπόταν 30 πατώματα έστω, λόγω των οικονομιών κλίμακας θα επιτρεπόταν παρεκκλίσεις από το "γεωμετρικό στερεό" του κύβου και λογικά θα βλέπαμε κάτι πιο "εύπλαστο".
Επίσης, θα ήθελα τη γνώμη σας για αυτό. Για εμένα ήταν μια ευχάριστη έκπληξη αυτό το πράγμα στη Συγγρου. Αναμασήματα του εξωτερικού late 80s, early 90s θα μου πείς.
Φυσικά και συμφωνώ για το εν γένει πνεύμα του systema (αλλά και του Lucretius σε άλλα σχετικά ποστς).
systema magicum
April 23rd, 2009, 07:38 PM
Αξίζει να σημειωθεί πως το κτήριο της Εμπορικής είναι σχεδιασμένο από τον Sir Basil Spence ,κάτι που λιγοστοί γνωρίζουν στην Ελλάδα, μετά από διεθνή διαγωνισμό…εξαιρετικό κτήριο αν και θα ήταν προτιμότερο να είχε χτιστεί αλλού και να είχαμε το επίσης αξιόλογο νεοκλασικό που υπήρχε εκεί…όπως και να έχει αυτό δεν αλλάζει και το κτήριο της Εμπορικής είναι αναπόσπαστο μέρος της πρόσφατης αρχιτεκτονικής μας κληρονομιάς με μια σημαντική διεθνή υπογραφή.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_Spence
http://www.basilspence.org.uk/
systema magicum
April 23rd, 2009, 08:16 PM
Αυτό το βρίσκω από τα καλύτερά του κτήρια γραφείων αν και έχω κάποιες επιφυλάξεις για ορισμένα στοιχειά, πχ το υλικό για των προσόψεων. Έχει ενδιαφέρον ο τρόπος με τον οποίο «έκοψε» το κτήριο και δημιούργησε αυτό το άκρως εντυπωσιακό στέγαστρο ενώ οι προσόψεις είναι λιτές…το κλιμακοστάσιο είναι όλα τα λεφτά επίσης…από τότε ο Τομπάζης άρχισε να το χάνει κάπως και το είδαμε τόσο στην πρότασή του για το Φιξ όσο και για το Νέο μουσείο της Ακρόπολης…η μια χειρότερη από την άλλη. Παραμένει βέβαια ένα μεγάλο κεφάλαιο για την Ελληνική αρχιτεκτονική αλλά... θα δείξει. Από ένα σημείο και μετά δύσκολα τα βάζεις - αμφισβητείς τον εαυτό σου, η ηλικία το επιτείνει αυτό και συνήθως καθηλώνεσαι…την ίδια στιγμή η ηλικία χαρίζει πολλές αρετές που όταν διοχετευτούν σωστά μπορείς να έχεις αξιόλογα αποτελέσματα…αν αρχίσεις να παίζεις και με τις δάφνες που έχεις μαζέψει μπορεί να κάνεις και την έκπληξη. Παρόλα αυτά το τελευταίο δύσκολα θα το κάνει ο Τομπάζης, ελπίζω όμως ούτε και το πρώτο.
ps:Ωραία φωτογραφία.Το κτήριο της Alpha Bank είναι ωραίο...ξέρεις τον αρχιτέκτονα?
gm2263
April 23rd, 2009, 09:05 PM
Μακάρι να το ήξερα. Το κτίριο είναι της δεκαετίας του 70 όμως. Θαρρώ το θυμάμαι από τότε που ο πατέρας μου δούλευε στον Πειραιά προ αμνημονεύτων χρόνων. Πρέπει να είναι μεταπολίτευση, μέσα προς τέλη της δεκαετίας του 70 και κατά πάσα πιθανότητα θα πρέπει να περιλαμβάνεται στα κτίρια των Ελλήνων αρχιτεκτόνων που παρουσιάζονταν στα "Αρχιτεκτονικά θέματα" της εποχής... Πάντως ψάξτο, πρέπει να είναι αν δεν κάνω λάθος της ίδιας εποχής με το κτίριο της Εμπορικής τράπεζας στη Σταδίου.
Lucretius
April 23rd, 2009, 09:17 PM
Ένας κατάλογος των μπρουτάλ κτιρίων της Αθήνας υπάρχει εδώ (http://www.culture2000.tee.gr./ATHENS/GREEK/STYLE_LISTS/broutalismos.html)
Ξεχωρίζω τα παρακάτω ως προσωπικές μου προτιμήσεις.
Δημαρχείο Δραπετσώνας (http://www.culture2000.tee.gr./ATHENS/GREEK/BUILDINGS/BUILD_TEXTS/B22_t.html)
http://www.culture2000.tee.gr./ATHENS/COMMON/BUILD_PHOTOS/22.jpg
Aρχιτέκτονες
Γιάννης Δαλέζιος
Νίκος Δημητριάδης
Π. Λιάκος
Σωτήρης Παπαδόπουλος
Κτίριο Δημόσιας Επιχείρησης Ηλεκτρισμού (http://www.culture2000.tee.gr./ATHENS/GREEK/BUILDINGS/BUILD_TEXTS/B26_t.html)
http://www.culture2000.tee.gr./ATHENS/COMMON/BUILD_PHOTOS/26.jpg
Γ’ Σεπτεμβρίου και Ρίζου , 1973-77
Aρχιτέκτων
Κλέων Κραντονέλλης (1912-78)
(Μελέτη 1973. Κατασκευή 1977)
Γυμνάσιο και Λύκειο Aγίου Δημητρίου (http://www.culture2000.tee.gr./ATHENS/GREEK/BUILDINGS/BUILD_TEXTS/B32_t.html)
http://www.culture2000.tee.gr./ATHENS/COMMON/BUILD_PHOTOS/32a.jpg
Παπάγου και Θρασυβούλου, Άγιος Δημήτριος, Aττική, 1970-76.
Aρχιτέκτων
Tάκης X. Zενέτος (1926-1977)
Θεολογική Σχολή, Πανεπιστημιούπολη Aθηνών (http://www.culture2000.tee.gr./ATHENS/GREEK/BUILDINGS/BUILD_TEXTS/B37_t.html)
http://www.culture2000.tee.gr./ATHENS/COMMON/BUILD_PHOTOS/37a.jpg
Zωγράφου, 1973-1976
Aρχιτέκτονες
Λάζαρος Καλλυβίτης (1938-)
Γιώργος Λεονάρδος (1940-)
Πολυκατοικία, Πολύδροσο Xαλανδρίου (http://www.culture2000.tee.gr./ATHENS/GREEK/BUILDINGS/BUILD_TEXTS/B154_t.html)1977-1980
http://www.culture2000.tee.gr./ATHENS/COMMON/BUILD_PHOTOS/154.jpg
Aρχιτέκτονες
Τάσος Μπίρης (1942-)
Δημ.Μπίρης (1944-2002)
Συνεργάτης αρχιτέκτων
Μαρία Καφρίτσα (1952-)
Eπιβατικός Σταθμός Oργανισμού Λιμένος Πειραιώς (http://www.culture2000.tee.gr./ATHENS/GREEK/BUILDINGS/BUILD_TEXTS/B74_t.html),1964 - 69
http://www.culture2000.tee.gr./ATHENS/COMMON/BUILD_PHOTOS/74a.jpg
Aρχιτέκτονες
Γιάννης Λιάπης (1922-1993)
Hλίας Σκρουμπέλος (1942-)
Φοιτητική Εστία Αρρένων Αθηνών (http://www.culture2000.tee.gr./ATHENS/GREEK/BUILDINGS/BUILD_TEXTS/B166_t.html)
Πατησίων 279-281, 1961-1967
http://www.culture2000.tee.gr./ATHENS/COMMON/BUILD_PHOTOS/166.jpg
Aρχιτέκτονες
Νίκος Δεσύλλας (1926 - )
Δημήτρης Kονταργύρης (1934 - )
Aντώνης Λαμπάκις (1933-1990)
Παύλος Λουκάκης (1933- )
gm2263
April 23rd, 2009, 09:36 PM
Περιγραφή και σχόλια για το σχολείο του Τάκη Ζενέτου (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpost.php?p=8695051&postcount=34) όπως τα έχω γράψει σε ένα άλλο thread με τίτλο "Έλληνες Αρχιτέκτονες που είστε (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=320623&page=1);" (προφανώς επηρεασμένος από τον τίτλο της ταινίας του Αλμοντοβάρ "Ω Αδερφέ που είσαι; :lol: )
As promised:
Talking about Takis Zenetos, he is a controversial yet utterly respected figure who explored modernistic forms trying to combine flexibility in functionality with the modernist rigidity.
Besides the "Fix Brewery building" whose shell will be used in order to accomodate the new Athens Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Zenetos is also known for another pioneering creation which is yet unknown to the Greek public, although it constitutes one of the most advanced conceptions of modernist architecture in Europe. The Flying Saucer shaped school that "fell to earth" specifically in the residential area of Aghios Dimitrios in Athens.
Also, Zenetos was one of the proponents of "communication through computers" and shared creativity amongst people. Too bad he didn't live to see today's developments. For reasons unknown to me, he committed suicide in 1977, just one year after the school in Aghios Dimitrios was completed.
But let's read first whatever information we can glean out of the very good http://www.culture2000.tee.gr/ site (Visit is, it is an unbelievable source on architecture information about Athens, Paris, and London!!!! ).
Secondary School
Source:
Papagou and Thrasyvoulou Sts, Ayios Dimitrios, Attica, 1970-76
Architects
Takis Ch. Zenetos (1926-1977)
The Secondary School (Junior and Senior) of Ayios Dimitrios constitutes an experimental but utopian creation by Takis Zenetos. The users’ failure to take advantage of the building’s potential has made it a symbol of the chasm between the reality of the large state school buildings and the better future for them envisioned by the architect when he designed it.
Zenetos’s building houses a junior secondary school (gymnasio) for about 1500 pupils in an experimental and innovative circular structure. It has three floors and the ground plan of each floor includes three standardised modules of 160 pupils each, with four classrooms per module which could be converted into a single space. These modules were placed around a central core of audio-visual aids. In direct contact with the core were the facilities for the teaching staff.
The circular articulation was selected by the architect for reasons of economy in the building and flexibility in its future use. In the treatment of the elevations, Zenetos broadened the international brutalist code in an imaginative way.
A stylistic feature of decisive significance is the succession of louvred roofs surrounding the southern semi-circle of the three floors, with a width that fluctuates according to the orientation so as to provide effective protection to the interior without wasting material. The materials that dominate here are concrete and the metal window sashes.
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I went to Aghios Dimitrios to find the building one cloudy Synday last May. What I saw left me with mixed feelings. First of all, the building is under refurbishment and so were some additional constuctions next to it, so, what you will see is a bit messy and I am sure its creator wouldn't like you to see in this condition.
Second, although neither the surroundings and the area, especially the estates to the east of the complex are in their best shape ever, still, the building manages to emanate the spiritual power of its creator. What Zenetos did there was megapolisomancy -urban magic - transformation. It got rusty over the years but as I read in the papers, only temporarily. The school and the rest of the properties are used as school units again and are undergoing a renovation phase. What the outcome will be, we will see soon.
In the beginning I was unhappy with the weather conditions as I wanted blue skies. However, after I got on location I preferred to shoot with the clouds above me. For some reason, the colour of the sky made a worthwhile addition which emphasised the overall atmosphere that I was drawn in that strange Sunday morning in the beginning of May...
As if the soul of the architect was there to make me feel its presence...
Who knows?
-Aerial photo, (C) Dimitris Philipidis, in :Modern Architecture in Greece", Melissa Publications, 2001.
The Vouliagmenis Avenue branch towards downtown Athens is visivble to the right of the picture
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c94/gm2263/Athens%20Skyscrapers%20and%20Modern%20Architecture/ZenetosRoundSchoolAerial2.jpg
-Various pictures depicting the unusual round shape of the "School that fell to Earth"
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c94/gm2263/Athens%20Skyscrapers%20and%20Modern%20Architecture/ZenetosRoundSchool1.jpg
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c94/gm2263/Athens%20Skyscrapers%20and%20Modern%20Architecture/ZenetosRoundSchool2.jpg
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c94/gm2263/Athens%20Skyscrapers%20and%20Modern%20Architecture/ZenetosRoundSchool3.jpg
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c94/gm2263/Athens%20Skyscrapers%20and%20Modern%20Architecture/ZenetosRoundSchool4.jpg
-Two panoramas of the rear side of the building
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c94/gm2263/Athens%20Skyscrapers%20and%20Modern%20Architecture/ZenetosRoundSchool5-Panorama1small.jpg
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c94/gm2263/Athens%20Skyscrapers%20and%20Modern%20Architecture/ZenetosRoundSchool6-Panorama1small.jpg
-More views
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c94/gm2263/Athens%20Skyscrapers%20and%20Modern%20Architecture/ZenetosRoundSchool7.jpg
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c94/gm2263/Athens%20Skyscrapers%20and%20Modern%20Architecture/ZenetosRoundSchool9.jpg
Quite unique isn't it? Too bad the whole area is in bad shape, except the residentials nearby...
A, και να μην ξεχάσω: Μέσα στα μπρουταλιστικά κτίρια της Αθήνας μέσα στο culture2000 μνημονεύεται και ο σταθμός αυτοκινήτων του ΟΤΕ στην Καλλιθέα. Μάγκες αυτό ξέρω που είναι και μπορεί αν και όταν μου έλθει η όρεξη να πάρω καμμιά φωτό, είναι στην οδό Δοϊράνης, πρώτη παράλληλο της Συγγρού από τη μεριά της Καλλιθέας.
...όπου παρεμπιπτόντως υπάρχει και ένα 10 ή 11 όροφο πάρκινγκ αυτοκινήτων (και κάπου άκουσα ότι για τα πάρκινγκ ισχύει μαγαλύτερος συντελεστής, αληθεύει; ), και αυτό μπρουταλιστικού στυλ, και βαμμένο ροζ (ΟΛΗ η παράνοια!!! :nuts::ohno: )
Αυτά.
gm2263
April 23rd, 2009, 09:42 PM
...πάντως αν είναι να μιλήσουμε για μπρουταλιστικά κατασκευάσματα "διεκπεραιωτικής" αρχιτεκτονικής μην πάτε μακριά: Δέστε όλα τα δημόσια γυμνάσια - λύκεια της δεκαετίας του 70, τι να λέμε τώρα. Ιδίως τα συγκροτήματα της Γκράβας και τα συναφούς στυλ...
TeddyAmsterdam
April 23rd, 2009, 10:46 PM
Ο,τι να'ναι! Με εξιτάρει ιδιαίτερα το μπαλκόνι (ε;) κάτω από το σπασμένο αέτωμα (εε;) κάτω από το μεταλικό γείσο (εεε;). Τρικυμία εν κρανίω.
Afto to metaliko geiso pou kapelonei to aetoma eine pou me xalaei ki emena
an den to eixe, kai teleione to ktirio me to aetoma (esto kai "spasmeno") tha itan apla ena -adiaforo gia mena- postmodern ktirio.
H to anapodo, as eixe to metaliko geiso kai na eleipe to aetoma...
sta plus dexome ontos to kalo finirisma, tin thesi os pros ton komvo kai fotismos to vrady.
TeddyAmsterdam
April 23rd, 2009, 10:47 PM
@GM
oi foto tou sxoleiou to Zenetou apo pote eine Grigori? Tin teleftea fora pou to eixa dei live thimame itan se kaka xalia, kai eixa diavasei kai diafora arthra pano s'afto
Stis foto deixnei poly decent anakainismeno/anapalaiomeno.
TeddyAmsterdam
April 23rd, 2009, 10:57 PM
Ta ktiria tis Ethnikis Pinakothikis kai tou Odeiou, den anikoun ston broutalismo?
sto "GREECE-20th Century Architecture" tou Sava Condaratou (ekdoseis Prestel) ta katatasei ekei...
Lucretius
April 23rd, 2009, 11:09 PM
Μπρουταλιστικό είναι και to κτίριο της Πινακοθήκης. Αλλά όχι και από τα καλύτερα παραδείγματα. Για το ωδείο έχω την εντύπωση πως είναι μοντέρνο - αλλά δεν παίρνω και όρκο.
systema magicum
April 24th, 2009, 01:31 AM
Lucretius:Μπρουταλιστικό είναι και to κτίριο της Πινακοθήκης. Αλλά όχι και από τα καλύτερα παραδείγματα. /QUOTE]
^^
το λες και από τα χειρότερα:lol::lol::lol::lol:
μα και πάλι είναι λειψό so ίσως το αδικώ.
Lucretius
April 24th, 2009, 01:41 AM
Είναι και αυτό ένα από τα κτίρια που για αλλού σχεδιάστηκαν και αλλού κατέληξαν, μετά από αλλοιώσεις, περικοπές και παρεμβασεις.
systema magicum
April 24th, 2009, 01:46 AM
ήρθε και η Μαρίνα μετά και εφτιαξε το πανωσήκωμα, ξεπαστρεψε και την γέφυρα με τα πάνελ των χορηγών και το αποτελείωσε...plus τα άπειρα έργα στην είσοδο ριγμένα όπως να ναι...όπως βάζει τις καρφίτσες της ή τα μπιμπελό στο σπίτι της....:lol::lol::lol::lol:
systema magicum
April 24th, 2009, 01:48 AM
Ωδείο Aθηνών
Λεωφ. Bασ. Kωνσταντίνου & Pηγίλλης, Aθήνα, 1969-1976
Iωάννης Δεσποτόπουλος (Jan Despo, 1903-1992)
Tο έργο αυτό του αρχιτέκτονα-καθηγητή Iωάννη Δεσποτόπουλου, ο οποίος υπήρξε μαθητής του Walter Gropius στη Bαϊμάρη, αποτελεί το μόνο τμήμα της μεγαλόπνοης σύνθεσής του για το Πνευματικό Kέντρο της Aθήνας το οποίο κατασκευάστηκε. H σύνθεση, η οποία κέρδισε το πρώτο βραβείο πανελλήνιου αρχιτεκτονικού διαγωνισμού του 1959, ανήκει στις κορυφαίες εκφράσεις του ριζοσπαστικά μοντέρνου πνεύματος του Bauhaus.
Στο κτίριο του Ωδείου Aθηνών ο μελετητής κράτησε τις διαστάσεις και τη χωροθέτηση που είχαν προκύψει από τη σχέση του με τις άλλες κτιριακές μονάδες του Πνευματικού Kέντρου. Aυτό είχε σαν αποτέλεσμα την τοποθέτηση του Ωδείου λοξά προς τους κύριους οδικούς άξονες οι οποίοι περιβάλλουν την ασυνήθιστα επιμήκη σιλουέτα του, μήκους 160 μ., πλάτους 32 μ. και ύψους 10,50 μ.
Tο κτίριο συγκροτείται από ισόγειο με pilotis / κιονοστοιχία, όροφο και υπόγεια. Περιλαμβάνει 35 χώρους διδασκαλίας, αίθουσες διδασκαλίας λυρικής μουσικής 350 θέσεων και δραματικής τέχνης 150 θέσεων, αίθουσα ρυθμικής, χώρους καθηγητών, μουσείο μουσικής, μουσική βιβλιοθήκη, αίθουσα συναυλιών 820 θέσεων, χώρους καλλιτεχνικών εκδηλώσεων και συγκεντρώσεων. Oι όψεις είναι λιτές, οργανωμένες με αυστηρό κάνναβο και επενδεδυμένες με λευκό μάρμαρο Πεντέλης.
Tο μεγάλο μήκος του Ωδείου, οι κατάλευκες όψεις του με την αφαιρετική τους μορφή και η αυστηρή ρυθμικότητα των στοιχείων τους –ανοίγματα, κάνναβος μαρμαρεπενδύσεων, κιονοστοιχία ισογείου- διαφοροποιούν αισθητά το έργο αυτό του Δεσποτόπουλου από τον άναρχα δομημένο περίγυρό του. Έτσι, παρά τις λειτουργικές αδυναμίες του και την πλημμελή εκτέλεση της αρχιτεκτονικής μελέτης, το Ωδείο Aθηνών αναγνωρίστηκε από τους ειδικούς ως σημείο αναφοράς στον πολεοδομικό ιστό της ελληνικής πρωτεύουσας.
http://www.culture2000.tee.gr./ATHENS/GREEK/main2.html
systema magicum
April 24th, 2009, 01:59 AM
εξαιρετικό κτίριο...από τα αγαπημένα μου στην πόλη.Τώρα που στεγάζεται το ΕΜΣΤ αποκαλύφθηκαν οι μοναδικοί του χώροι...μην χασετε την Shirin Neshat!!!
gm2263
April 24th, 2009, 09:11 AM
Το ωδείο ανέκαθεν μου άρεσε, δεν ξέρω γιατί. Το θυμάμαι τότε που το έχτιζαν, πολύ μικρός ήμουνα, γύρω στα 1975-1976. Εξαιρετικό κτίριο.
@GM
oi foto tou sxoleiou to Zenetou apo pote eine Grigori? Tin teleftea fora pou to eixa dei live thimame itan se kaka xalia, kai eixa diavasei kai diafora arthra pano s'afto
Stis foto deixnei poly decent anakainismeno/anapalaiomeno.
@Teddy
Ρε συ φίλε, οι φωτό αυτές είναι από το 2006, και από ότι θυμάμαι, είχαν κάνει κάτι εργασίες τότε. Αν πρόλαβαν να το καταστρέψουν μέσα σε τρία χρόνια, τι να πω...
gm2263
April 24th, 2009, 03:49 PM
A, και κάντε ένα κλικ εδώ πέρα να δείτε ένα νέο ξενοδοχείο για την περιοχή του αεροδρομίου του Heathrow στο Λονδίνο.
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpost.php?p=35617570&postcount=1001
Αλήθεια, φαντάζεστε κάτι τέτοιο στα Σπάτα; ή στην Κηφισίας; Ή στην Αττική οδό; Lowrise βέβαια, μην πάθουν οι καθηγητάδες του ΕΜΠ κανένα έμφραγμα και είναι και σε επικίνδυνοι ηλικία οι άνθρωποι :D.
Ή μήπως δεν πρόκειται να γίνει τίποτα άλλο διότι οι... ξενοδόχοι έκριναν ότι η Αττική γή είναι κορεσμένη από τα (δικά τους - τι βολικό - :D) ξενοδοχεία;
TeddyAmsterdam
April 24th, 2009, 11:57 PM
Το ωδείο ανέκαθεν μου άρεσε, δεν ξέρω γιατί. Το θυμάμαι τότε που το έχτιζαν, πολύ μικρός ήμουνα, γύρω στα 1975-1976. Εξαιρετικό κτίριο.
@Teddy
Ρε συ φίλε, οι φωτό αυτές είναι από το 2006, και από ότι θυμάμαι, είχαν κάνει κάτι εργασίες τότε. Αν πρόλαβαν να το καταστρέψουν μέσα σε τρία χρόνια, τι να πω...
to anapodo leo ego, kala nea, ta teleftea xronia fenete epitelous anakainistike. Exo na to do pollaaaaa xronia!
Arxitektonas
April 26th, 2009, 07:26 PM
to anapodo leo ego, kala nea, ta teleftea xronia fenete epitelous anakainistike. Exo na to do pollaaaaa xronia!
Menw ston Agio Dimitrio kai to sxoleio (para tis katalipseis mathitwn kata kairous, para to oti tin perioxi den tin les kai Kolwnaki, ktl) brisketai se poly kali katastasi meta tin anakainisi pou teleiwse prin 2 i 3 xronia. Milame oti einai to stolidi tis perioxis...
gm2263
April 27th, 2009, 09:35 AM
Menw ston Agio Dimitrio kai to sxoleio (para tis katalipseis mathitwn kata kairous, para to oti tin perioxi den tin les kai Kolwnaki, ktl) brisketai se poly kali katastasi meta tin anakainisi pou teleiwse prin 2 i 3 xronia. Milame oti einai to stolidi tis perioxis...
Ξέρουν αυτοί οι... ταλαίπωροι μαθητές τι "καταλαμβάνουν"; ή είναι τόσο "ακουσμένοι" από τους μπάφους που γουστάρουν το μέρος γιατί τους θυμίζει κάτι "φευγάτο" πχ διαστημόπλοιο; :lol:
Arxitektonas
April 27th, 2009, 08:59 PM
Ξέρουν αυτοί οι... ταλαίπωροι μαθητές τι "καταλαμβάνουν"; ή είναι τόσο "ακουσμένοι" από τους μπάφους που γουστάρουν το μέρος γιατί τους θυμίζει κάτι "φευγάτο" πχ διαστημόπλοιο; :lol:
Kseroun kai edw einai to wraio. Enw "katalambanoun" exoune pliri synaisthisi tou ti katalambanoune kai sebontai apolytws ton xwro. Se antithesi me sxoleia opws tis Gkrabas i tou Byrwna opou sta perasmena 3 xronia ginane bandalismoi mprosta stous opoious i leilasia tis Athinas apo ton Xerxi itane paixnidaki, ston Agio Dimitrio den peiraxtike oute karekla...Isws ayto na leei kai kati gia to poso agapane oi mathites ta sxoleia tous kai gia to pws ena kalo sxoleio ginetai sebasto akoma kai apo ton xeirotero mathiti...
gm2263
April 27th, 2009, 09:03 PM
καλά αυτό να λέγεται, αν και φοβάμαι τη σύγχυση που βρίσκεται σήμερα ο κόσμος, μικροί και μεγάλοι. Χαίρομαι που το ακούω πάντως. Καλά δε μιλάμε για τη Γκράβα, αυτό πρέπει να είναι Γκουαντάναμο αλα Ελληνικά :runaway:.
Skaros
May 3rd, 2009, 02:35 PM
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Skaros
May 3rd, 2009, 02:41 PM
New office buildings exactly opposite of the metro station "Attiki".
http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/8890/newofficebuildings2sepo.jpg (http://img98.imageshack.us/my.php?image=newofficebuildings2sepo.jpg)
http://img106.imageshack.us/img106/4960/newofficesbuildingsepol.jpg (http://img106.imageshack.us/my.php?image=newofficesbuildingsepol.jpg)
systema magicum
May 3rd, 2009, 04:05 PM
Είδα την πρώτη φωτογραφία και τρόμαξα...ε δεν καταλαβαίνω τον λόγο υπαρξής του εδώ, οκ ψάχνουμε την καλή αρχιτεκτονική με το τουφέκι, αν αρχίσουμε να βάζουμε και τα εκτρώματα του κάθε πολιτικού μηχανικού πάει το thread....η γνώμη μου πάντα.
το δεύτερο πάλι κάτι λέει...λέμε τώρα:nuts::nuts::nuts:
gm2263
May 3rd, 2009, 04:38 PM
Πολύ γρανίτη και γυαλί βλέπω, λέτε να είναι του "γνωστού κατασκευαστή" :lol:
SKLAVENITIS
May 3rd, 2009, 04:38 PM
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The second photo is interesting as well. I love the exposed air-conditioning condensers.
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Lucretius
May 3rd, 2009, 04:50 PM
Ποιά είναι η λειτουργία των μπαλκονιών σε κτίρια γραφείων;
gm2263
May 3rd, 2009, 05:12 PM
Καλά, μπαλκόνια είναι αυτά; Όντως κουφό...
EngineerGreece
May 3rd, 2009, 05:15 PM
^^
Απλά επειδή τώρα θα απαγορεύεται το κάπνισμα σε όλους τους εσωτερικούς χώρους είπανε να βάλουνε μπαλκόνια για να μην βγαίνουμε έξω από την εξώπορτα και χαλάει το image :hilarious.
gm2263
May 3rd, 2009, 05:16 PM
LOL!!!
kostya
May 3rd, 2009, 06:13 PM
Να βγαίνουν για τσιγάρο οι υπάλληλοι και να πετάνε τα αποτσίγαρα στους περαστικούς; ή να βάλουν τραπεζάκια για να πίνουν τον καφέ τους;
the daydreamer
May 28th, 2009, 06:58 PM
Some modern Athens buildings in the Ambelokipoi - Laiko Hospital area:
http://i731.photobucket.com/albums/ww320/daydreamer123_photos/CIMG4707.jpg
http://i731.photobucket.com/albums/ww320/daydreamer123_photos/CIMG4708.jpg
http://i731.photobucket.com/albums/ww320/daydreamer123_photos/CIMG4705.jpg
http://i731.photobucket.com/albums/ww320/daydreamer123_photos/CIMG4628.jpg
http://i731.photobucket.com/albums/ww320/daydreamer123_photos/CIMG4621.jpg
A branch of the National Bank of Greece in Kifisia suburb:
http://i731.photobucket.com/albums/ww320/daydreamer123_photos/CIMG4680.jpg
kostya
May 28th, 2009, 07:07 PM
Έχει κανείς φωτογραφίες από τα bauhaus της Αθήνας;;;
systema magicum
June 4th, 2009, 11:47 AM
Some modern Athens buildings in the Ambelokipoi - Laiko Hospital area:
http://i731.photobucket.com/albums/ww320/daydreamer123_photos/CIMG4707.jpg
http://i731.photobucket.com/albums/ww320/daydreamer123_photos/CIMG4708.jpg
http://i731.photobucket.com/albums/ww320/daydreamer123_photos/CIMG4705.jpg
http://i731.photobucket.com/albums/ww320/daydreamer123_photos/CIMG4628.jpg
http://i731.photobucket.com/albums/ww320/daydreamer123_photos/CIMG4621.jpg
A branch of the National Bank of Greece in Kifisia suburb:
http://i731.photobucket.com/albums/ww320/daydreamer123_photos/CIMG4680.jpg
^^
αν εξαιρέσουμε το νέο κτήριο της Ασπις στην Βασιλίσσης Σοφίας που έχει ενδιαφέρον τα άλλα είναι τόσο κοινότυπα και αρχιτεκτονικά βρίσκονται στην εποχή της Δυναστειας...:lol::lol:ίσως το κτήριο της Εθνικής λέε κάτι...αν δεν κάνω λάθος είναι του Παπαγιάννη.
gm2263
June 4th, 2009, 12:16 PM
Γιατί βρε systema και αυτό του Μπαρμπαλιά πάνω από το σταθμό "Μέγαρο" του μετρό από την απέναντι στη Β Σοφίας καλό δεν είναι;
systema magicum
June 4th, 2009, 12:34 PM
αφού είπα πως έχει ενδιαφέρον το κτήριο της Ασπίς, μόνο που δεν είναι του Μπαρμπαλιά...είναι σχεδιασμένο από τον αρχιτέκτονα Δημήτρη Παπαϊωάννου που μάλιστα υπογράφει και ένα νέο κτήριο λίγο παραπάνω, απέναντι από την Αμερικάνικη πρεσβεία, πάλι για την ασπις...ενα μηνα πριν ήταν στα θεμέλια, στενή πρόσοψη, έχω δει το σχέδιο και ήταν super...
gm2263
June 4th, 2009, 01:40 PM
...και θα αλλάξει όψη και το γνωστό κτίριο με το "ελικοδρόμιο".
BTW, το κτίριο για το οποίο μιλάγαμε πιο πάνω είναι του Παπαϊωάννου και όχι του Μπαρμπαλιά; Mea culpa λοιπόν. Από τις ωραιότερες προσθήκες στην αστική μας πραγματικότητα κατά τη γνώμη μου. :)
systema magicum
June 4th, 2009, 01:44 PM
το ελικοδρόμιο ξηλώθηκε...γνωρίζουμε την νεα χρήση του κτηρίου? γραφεια?
εμπορικο?
gm2263
June 4th, 2009, 01:45 PM
^^
γραφεία προφανώς...
AAL
June 4th, 2009, 03:19 PM
To κτήριο που είναι όντως του Μπαρμπαλιά είναι το μεταμοντέρνο απέναντι από την Αμερικάνικη πρεσβεία. Είναι τέτοιος ο αρχιτεκτονικός "ταλιμπανισμός" μας, που η εταιρεία που το αγόρασε ξόδεψε λεφτά για να του "απλοποιήσει" την όψη - να την κάνει πιο "κουτένια"...
Το κτήριο πάνω από το σταθμό Μέγαρο Μουσικής είναι όντως εξαιρετικό...μου έκανε εντύπωση που το ύψος των ορόφων του αντιστοιχεί με τις γειτονικές παλιές πολυκατοικίες, και δεν είναι σαν τις ποντικοπαγίδες των 2.5 μέτρων που χτίζουν οι πιο πολλοί...
systema magicum
June 4th, 2009, 04:32 PM
^^
αυτο που λες το πήρε το ίδρυμα Νιάρχου για να στεγάσει τα γραφεία του στην Αθήνα και την τροποπόίηση στο πιο κουτί την έκανε ο Μπαρμπαλιάς που κράτησε μόνο την πόρτα από το παλιό του σχέδιο...Ρενζο Πιανο από την μία για το Φάληρο αλλά για την έδρα του το ίδρυμα επέλεξε τον greek way...κρίμα.
EngineerGreece
December 15th, 2009, 07:17 PM
Hey Yedek it's really nice showing us all these pictures and stuff... But plz stop spamming... It's annoying!!!
lysandros
February 3rd, 2010, 01:19 PM
http://i950.photobucket.com/albums/ad345/prisma_photo/P1200150.jpg
Billy8181
February 3rd, 2010, 01:29 PM
polla apo ayta einai oraia ktiria, ala xoris armonia (oti na'nai ena dipla sto alo..:ohno:) kai polles fores pnigmena apo ala ktiria, xanoun tin omorfia tous.
Demis
February 3rd, 2010, 03:04 PM
Very nice blocks of flats. Wish Athens had more like these.
christos-greece
February 6th, 2010, 01:57 PM
http://i731.photobucket.com/albums/ww320/daydreamer123_photos/CIMG4628.jpg
BTW, this building is really interesting, i like it...
AAL
February 6th, 2010, 05:02 PM
^^ I agree! Very interesting architecture, and also notice the ceiling height: unlike most recent mousetraps, this one has the same height as the neighbouring '50s buildings! :cheers:
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