The ‘Helix,’ the new gallery carved into the earth, spirals around a sunken garden with an ancient olive tree at the center. This space creates a new entrance to the museum, and includes an auditorium, a cafeteria, and galleries for temporary exhibit
The entrance ramp occupies the central courtyard as visitors descend from street level to the ‘Rooms of Light’ below. Light is filtered through the coffered ceiling structure that floats overhead, naturally illuminating the interior...
The history of the museum, which is about burying, concealing, and revealing objects, inspires the new design. The ground is elevated to unveil a large subterranean space, a route of the senses defined by a gradient of light and warm, earthy textures
The principal project decisions are to design a ‘living garden’ based on the theme of archaeologies; to highlight the original colonnade facade; to extend the existing gardens; and to build a glass canopy as well as peripheral terraces...
The metal roof, a reinterpretation of the Greek agora, presides the garden and marks the start of the stoa, which functions as an axis through the park, the existing building, the historic courtyards, and the exhibition spaces...
David Chipperfield Architects Berlin has won the contest to revamp and enlarge the National Archaeological Museum in Athens, located in the capital's Exarcheia neighborhood, which possesses one of the world's major collections of prehistoric and anci
Como parte del complejo de la Fundación Stavros Niarchos, la Ópera Nacional de Grecia se organiza siguiendo al pie de la letra los dictados de un ‘teatro a la italiana’ tradicional.
This project was the winning proposal in an international competition held in the year 2001. The new building is located in a strategic area of the city, only 300 hundred meters from the Athens Acropolis, in the historic district of Makryianni. Its l
Richard Ingersoll Los preámbulos de los Juegos Olímpicos de Atenas han sido de los más emocionantes en la historia del olimpismo, aunque no por los aspectos deportivos, sino por la incertidumbre acerca de la terminación en plazo de las obras y por la
Two British architects who have foundations in Spain were feted in the month of May: Norman Foster inaugurated the largest retrospective ever done on his work at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and David Chipperfield was awarded the Pritzker Prize at t
Archaeologists fear the structural changes aimed to improve access to the Unesco site will “dramatically” change its form. Plans for a major renovation project to the western entrance of the Acropolis have met with strong opposition from archaeologis
The work of the photographer and architect Yiorgis Yerolymbos (Paris, 1973) reflects a particular interest in landscape and how it is transformed by humans. He has spent ten years documenting the construction of the Cultural Center of the Stavros Nia
(1919-1993) Born in Athens, where he died on September 17, Konstantinidis studied architecture in Munich. His humanistic training linked him to his native country's building traditions. He designed residential projects, with his houses in Crete stand
