Private residence in Kifissia, Greece designed by Tense Architecture Network, aka architects Tilemachos Andrianopoulos, Kostas Mavros and Nestoras Kanellos.
Photographs by Filippo Poli
Residence in Kifissia
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Erichthonean Museum of Acropolis
A critical proposal on the Acropolis Museum in Athens competitions, completed in 1991 by Greek architect and professor Christos Papoulias (pdf link).
The architect suggests a museum entirely below the ground surface, build in a now invisible 17m high gap between two walls of the rocks’ phases, the Mycenaean and the Classical when the Acropolis’ rock was significantly expanded to it’s current retaining wall.
Uncovered by early 20th century excavations between the two walls, this gap today is visible only through a series of shafts left by the archaeologists (scroll for photos).These shafts and the now buried gap between the two retaining walls of the acropolis became the site for Christos Papoulias’ Erichthonean Museum of Acropolis proposal.
The museum would inhabit the south and south east part of the Acropolis plateau and could be visible only through it’s entrance. One of the existing caves would offer an exit down to the south side of the acropolis hill, leading the visitor to the fascinating but mostly overlooked theater of Dionysus and other important archaeological sites like the Odeion of Perikles, the choregic monuments, the Asklepieion, the stoa of Eumenes and the Odeion of Herodes Atticus.
The walls of Erichthonean museum would be the originally visible base 17m high base of the Parthenon and the floor a series of carefully placed platforms, would mimic the roughly poured concrete that the archaeologists have long used to make the slippery rock accesible to visitors.
promotional kiosk for OCC
A plywood movable kiosk I’ve designed in 2010 for the promotion of OCC, a Greek new cultural center, based in Athens.
The design -inspired by the architectural values of the building hosting the events- offers various morphological properties. Besides the full or half version of the kiosk, user can easily create different types of desks or stands, according to function and location, by subtracting or adding certain parts.
Designs and model photos following.
I say: JUMP!
This is not something brand new for the word but it is the first time it is done in Athens: BASE Jump from Apollo tower in Riancour street. The video ignited multiple reactions and comments about the legitimacy of this action coming from a number of prudent citizens who demand that the jumper gets arrested and punished; claiming reasons of safety and security. WWT wants to comment that BASE jump, like any other urban sport, such as parkour, skate or bmx offers new readings of the urban landscape, breaks the borders of regular and organized urban behaviour and as such it bears risk (mainly for the doer) but also responsibility .Unfortunately prudent citizens assume that everybody except them is irresponsible or perhaps they are green with envy for not having the guts to jump themselves!
and i don’t feel so good myself
January 2013 Syntagma Square -the commercial and governmental heart of- Athens, Greece. Photo WWT.
Sonké ondulé
Acropolis circa 1870
From the book of Alexandros Papageorgiou-Venetas, Athens: a vision of Classicism.
The “Frankopyrgos” (Tower of the Franks) is standing still and mounds from the first excavations form an unfamiliar panorama.
Hellas Tempel
Temple of Poseidon, Cape Sounio (1928)
The Aphaia Temple, Aegina island (1930)
Kaisariani, Athens (1928) and all following from Acropolis, Athens (1928-30)
Base Column, Erechtheion Acropolis, Athens(1928)
Partenon details , Acropolis, Athens (1928)
Creative archaeological photography in the 30′s Greece, by German artist Walter Hege (1893–1985)
via klauskleinschmidt , Philadelphia & Met museum
Theseum
Playing springtime tourist in your home town is one of the best ways to waste time…These photos are from my walk into a part of the ancient agora (forum) in Athens, an archaeological park located in the center of the city, after a lunch cancellation last Sunday:}
On a small hill, surrounded by an ornamental garden you’ll find the Temple of Hephaestus, also called the Theseum (450 BC -unknown architect) made of an exquisite white marble from Mt. Penteli. Far less well-known than its neighbour, the Parthenon, this temple is a perfect place to relax, read and enjoy the “Oh God! Not another f*cking glorious day”
Theseum withstood all ravages of past centuries, from Venetians and Ottoman Turks to “philhellenes”, art collectors or religion fanatics who destroyed most of the “pagan” temples and structures during the Byzantine era.. It’s the best-preserved ancient Greek temple in existence and the only one of which any considerable portion of the upper part remains, as it was in antiquity.
layers of time
An early work from street artist Alexandros Vasmoulakis with a mixture of springtime, architecture and traces of other people’s lives, religion (METANOEITE means Repent!) and a kebap sign, above some accient ruins, all these next to a parking lot, 2006 Athens, Greece. Photo by Werner Maritsas
Minimaximum impro
Minimaximum the brilliant female group of architects and visual artists, that improvise using acoustic and electric instruments, sampled sounds, objects and image, live tonight at NoCentral, Athens, Greece. Find more here.
In the same city
A unique, poetic, tough yet tender glimpse at people coexisting in the same city by Greek photographer Costas Masseras.
All pictures are copywrited Costas Masseras
The Little Great City
Athens | The Little Great City by Greek photographer Emmanouil Papadopoulos of Stereosis.
via yatzer
Protest Graffiti – Athens
Works on the streets of the Greek capital reflect anger over the economic crisis / Via TIME / Photos: Orestis Panagiotou/EPA
drog_A_tek / Souled Out
Oh, such a perfect day…
Murplejane is a young Athenian architect and this is her first video attempt, shot exclusively on her phone. No words, no unnecessary emotionalism, no extra effects, just powerfully edited glimpses of a day in Syntagma square in Athens and a comment on Greek actuality. Well done!
