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Faliro Pier 1st Prize

10/12

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The size and quality of the Athens coastline in combination with the city's warm climate, constitute a higly valuable condition that is largely unexploited;

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Projects for Athens 2008-2012 at Venice Architecture Biennale 2012

08/12

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Point Supreme Architects presents 8 visions for the future of Athens in the Greek Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2012.

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Germanina

08/12

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The task asked for the expansion and conversion of a rural farm campus into a cultural and accommodation centre.

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Sigrou Avenue

08/12

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Proposal to capitalize on the programmatic identity of the existing main route from the center to the sea, and to reorganize it through the confrontation of public transport and new ceremonial rituals of daily life.

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Athens Ferry

08/12

 

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Proposal to add public space on the roof tops of a central city block in the form of a ferry boat.

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Rivera and Kahlo House

09/12
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The studio-house of Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo were designed by Juan O’Gorman and built in San Angel Inn in Mexico City.

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Giorgia Apartment

02/11

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The two floors, generous apartment in the northern suburbs of Athens had a very complicated outline, shape and organization. Spaces of entrance, circulation and services are treated graphically, adding excitement and clarity

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Europe 27 - 2nd Prize

02/12

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On the occasion of the Cyprus Presidency of the European Union Council during the second half of 2012, the proposal invents a new representation for the EU;
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Pinocchio

11/11
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The visually dominant local landmark of a High Silo is complemented by a sculptural volumetric extension

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Epicenters - Shortlisted

11/11 

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In order to make Islev area attractive for people to live, work, and socialize it is proposed that the district’s current center is extended

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The Architects Brain

11/11
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In pre-modern epochs, renewal of practice was always initiated by looking backwards, as a return to the fundamentals.

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Petralona House Extension

07/11

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The addition to an existing one-storey residence in the center of Athens is pushed towards the street elevation

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100 Views of Acropolis

07/11

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Photo by Point Supreme
In 1834 Hokusai illustrated Mountain Fuji from every angle and context, capturing the gift of immortality that lay hidden within it.
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City of Tables

08/10

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Greek cities are deliberately dense due to a cultural demand for physical closeness and constant social interaction. 

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Gösta Museum Extension

06/11

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The new building is a bridge that connects the existing museum with the island of Taavetinsaari. Upon arrival it presents itself merely by its roof.

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Mina House

07/11

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From a distance Mina House appears like an ordinary building, resting under a pitched roof with the typical red tiles of the area.

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Kozani Square

07/11

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The new main square in Kozani serves both the everyday and the monumental; the central part takes the form of a gently sunken ellipse.

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Dafnes house

07/11

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The house is in front of the beach close to a Greek city. The first volume frames the plot, while the second crosses it continuing the built volume of the neighboring construction.

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Europan 10 Trondheim phase II

01/11

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Phase II of the concept design has just been completed and preparations for the next phases have already started for the second Europan project to be realised in Trondheim.

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Athens As Island

05/11

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AthensX4 - Honourable Mention 

03/11

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The contemporary Greek city is made up of some of the smallest urban blocks in Europe, with an accompanying dense network of small streets and incredibly narrow pavements.

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Archipelago Cities 

03/11

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The geography of the Greek archipelago seems to reappear in the urban setting of Athens; the city is a translation of the archipelago landscape of the Cyclades.

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Athens by Hills

05/10

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The project aims to highlight the full range of unexploited mountains, hills and natural remains that float in the city fabric and around the Acropolis. 

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Center for Promotion of Science in Belgrade
12/10
The Center for Promotion of Science consists of two elements; on one hand a dense vertical volume in organic form which houses most of the program. On the other, a square horizontal plane that runs along the middle of the full volume accommodates the permanent and temporary exhibition spaces and appears to float, giving the building an iconic and impressive image that suits its promotional purposes and future oriented character.
The communal lobby space and the physical void space that accommodates it connect the ground to the sky and tie the entire building together; on the third level the science club, staff spaces and the planetarium are placed, offering exciting conditions for work, with views downwards towards the lobby and outwards towards the science park and the city.
status: competition
program: urban plan, science institute, science garden and landscape design
area: Masterplan 11,66 ha, building 12.000 m2
location: Belgrade, Serbia
team: Konstantinos Pantazis, Marianna Rentzou, Beth Hughes, Jean Sébastien Lebreton, Ioannis Gio, Argyro Vassalou
year: 2010

Science Center

03/11

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The Center for Promotion of Science in Belgrade consists of two complementary elements; on one hand a dense vertical volume in organic form which houses most of the program. On the other, a square horizontal plane that runs along the middle of the full volume.
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Kostas R. House

03/11

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The vacation house outside Athens is placed on a linear plot, framed on two sides by shifted neighboring houses that are to be built. The masterplan dictates the principle of the design

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Hotel Vitina

07/10

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The hotel in Vitina combines communal facilities and rooms-for-rent in one volumetric configuration; the linear building assumes both the small and the big scale.

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Marble Mural

11/10

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The piece is a hymn to marble; a 10 x 2m wall consisting of 7 marble pieces of different origin, natural history, color, texture and image. These marble pieces are treated with various traditional and digital techniques of workmanship that mingle with the inherent material narrations; holes, hidden or visible cuts, two or three dimensional relief, digital or handmade print, imagery from the  past and the future, light.
Consequently, marble is revealed not as the clean and current matter we are accostomed to seeing it as, but rather as a rich, thick live object that hides and reveals stories, can be transformed into a painting, stands up and even creates space.
status: built
program: exhibition for Interior Design 2010
location: Athens, Greece
team: Konstantinos Pantazis, Marianna Rentzou, Beth Hughes, Jean-S?bastien Lebreton
year: 20Marble Mura11/10

The piece is a hymn to marble; a 10 x 2m wall consisting of 7 marble pieces of different origin, natural history, color, texture and image.  

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Hortus Conclusus - Honourable Mention

09/10

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The new Theater Square is dedicated to the magic of nature: an urban room realized as a ‘secret garden’. The tall palm trees create a landmark on at the scale of the city, while at street level the garden becomes a place for the imagination with local plants and flowers creating open and closed spaces of light and shadow.

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Six d.o.g.s garden

07/10
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The intervention in the garden of the six d.o.g.s. cultural centre in central Athens, returns the site to its natural state.

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Piraeus Tower

04/10

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Rather than an autonomous, self referential edifice, what today is called ‘Iconic Building’, the new Pireaus Tower capitalises on its strategic positioning.

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Koukaki Apartment

07/10

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Koukaki apartment
For the renovation of this central Athens apartment, internal walls were demolished to create a continuous living area.  To bring natural light further into the apartment and to increase the sense of space, an internal window was introduced at the heart of the house. As one enters, they find themselves in the center of the apartment, their gaze led sequentially through an interior, then exterior window looking towards the Acropolis.
The Client wanted to create a rich, colourful space.  To rationalise this ambition and create a sense of continuity with the newly opened up configuration, the colours gradually shift between hues creating a soft, yet vibrant whole that reflects the owner’s sophisticated style and personality.
status: under construction
program: apartment
area: 75 m2
budget: 25 000 euros
location: Koukaki, Athens
team: Konstantinos Pantazis, Marianna Rentzou, Beth Hughes, Jean-Sébastien Lebreton, Argyro Vassalou
year: 2010

For the renovation of this central Athens apartment, internal walls were demolished to create a continuous living area.  To bring natural light further into the apartment and to increase the sense of space, an internal window was introduced at the heart of the house.

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Half Real

06/10

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Point Supreme collaborated with two visual artists, a musician and a performance artist/choreographer to create an art installation and one week performance called 'I DO'.

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Square Pool

06/10

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Athens has lost its relation to green, water and nature in general. In Ancient times springs and rivers were sacred and Athenians considered water to be a supreme good, an inextricable part of daily routine.

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New Maribor Museum

02/10

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The building aims to affect the overall city scale, whilst confirming the primacy of the historic core. While the building clearly presents itself as a single entity, it also clearly reveals the programmatic elements it is composed of.

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Trondheim

06/09

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The Masterplan suggests a series of carefully placed interventions that act as appendages to the former submarine bunker ‘Dora 1’:

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Vienna

06/09

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The project accumulates the collective intelligence on housing, fusing it together into an implausibly rich whole.

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Six d.o.g.s.

11/09
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The transformation of five rival spaces into one unified operation was the opportunity to define and give clarity to a street in the centre of Athens.

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Kalavrita House

11/09

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The structure of the house was recently built in a small village in the mountains. The heavy wooden roof construction displeased the clients who asked for its camouflaging.

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Alobar

10/09

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A bar is transformed into a pool-like environment. This is contrasted against the softness of the extensive use of wood, fabrics and plants. Within this unifying space is an accumulation of different atmospheres and conditions: lounge, reading, play, bar, café, eating, DJ, dance.
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Architecture Foundation Cordoba

01/10

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The proposal integrates the San Pablo block in Cordoba into the wider central part of the city, capitalizing on the multiplicity and diversity of its entry points.

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Kiafas house

09/09

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The house is sited at the entrance to a village, surrounded by fields. Starting with the generic rectangular box of a suburban home the corners are carved away bringing light, ventilation and views into the centre of the house. 

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Polikatikia 1

09/09

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On a triangular corner plot in a leafy area of Athens the client requested a study for a building of 4 apartments, one apartment per floor.  Like four little villas on top of each other, two apartments were to be occupied the other two for sale.

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Metaxourgio

09/09

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The strategy is to focus on the two most critical levels of the city; the ground floor plane and the roof top level, to effect the injection of new architectural form to the area.

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Kalavrita café

06/09

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Kalavrita is a picturesque mountain town surrounded by natural beauty. The project uses a deliberately limited palette of materials that collectively reflect the natural setting.

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Emileon Sports Centre  

06/09

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Agrinio is a landlocked city surrounded by a picturesque landscape in southern Greece.  Amongst the fields on the outskirts of the city is a new aquatic and sports centre.

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Travel Agency

04/09 

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A chaos of paper, brochures and accumulated mess, the existing travel agency in the seaside city of Patras lacked any sense of excitement or joy.  Inspired by the maritime history of the city and the sense of travel and adventure that boats evoke, the project inserts a ‘mariner’ into the space. 

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Heaven

02/09

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There is only 2.7 m2 of green space attributed to each resident of Athens making it the most deprived of all European Capitals. In the most densely built central areas the percentage drops to a mere 0.4 m2 per person.

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Benetton

03/09
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All the spaces in the proposed building are serviced by a system of thick columns that provide everything; storage, display, services, toilets and dressing rooms. The columns culminate as vaults at the upper level, the negative space above them forming planters for roof gardens.

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Exarcheian Walls

02/09
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In December 2008, the shooting of a 15-year-old student in Exarcheia caused extensive rioting in the area. While the riots were still taking place for days, life in the surrounding city continued intact as if on either side of an invisible wall.

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Golden Cube

01/09

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The Golden Cube avoids all comparisons; its absolute form effortlessly conquers any dimension and guarantees its unique timelessness. The structure looks like it has always been there.

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Kaminia Garden

12/08

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The existing garden is rich in spatial qualities. The proposal enhances the existing conditions so that they acquire a clear, distinguishable identity.

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café  ‘-ismo’

11/08

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The cubic volume of the café is divided by two walls that frame the public areas.  Point Supreme’s intervention was to design installations on these perpendicular walls: a giant eye and mouth that combined appear as a cubist face in the space.

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Aktipis Flower Shop

10/08

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The flowershop was completely emptied of existing elements and replaced by 14 archetypical tables arranged in the middle of the shop on which to display the flowers and plants.

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Unbuilt-Legitimization 1

07/08

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The contemporary Greek city, lacking any overall planning or vision, expands in all directions.  It is materialised through the endless repetition of polikatikias (apartment building); in essence the realization of the domino house.

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Dionysiou Aeropagitou- Legitimization 2

05/08

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The competition concerned the back facades of two existing buildings that stand directly in front of the new Acropolis Museum, on Dionisiou Aeropagitou Street.

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Pizza Perez

03/08

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The graphics complement the simplicity of the space. They express and celebrate the variety and richness of taste in the food served. All the ingredients used are mapped and allocated colours and codes – these are translated into a scientific looking matrix that covers the wall of the seating area. It offers an abstract overview of all the possibilities of choice.

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House with Resale Value

09/07

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If the architecture of the 20th century was independent from its surroundings, then the architecture of the 21st century depends entirely on them: Its value is defined by the surroundings and services it will capitalize on.

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Watersquare

06/07

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The project proposes a great number of typical and extraordinary water related activities along a dense network of public spaces around the water square, turning this into an active archipelago of potential identities.

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Frames

06/07
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The project exploits the unique condition of the site where nature is strongly present in two antithetic scales; vast forest and lake along three sides versus small pockets of remaining forest inside the territory.

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Mintilogli house

04/07

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This old house in a Greek village is listed; no windows or alterations can take place on its exterior. The proposal striped the interior of all constructions turning the house from two separate floors into a deep 4-floors-high void space where rooms and mezzanines are floating.

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Athens As Island

06/11

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Athens Tourist Campaign Poster

07/08

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