Residence in Kifissia

Private residence in Kifissia, Greece designed by Tense Architecture Network, aka architects Tilemachos Andrianopoulos, Kostas Mavros and Nestoras Kanellos.

Photographs by Filippo Poli

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.

La Ville Suspendue

Electronic Urbanism, an avant-garde speculative project on town planning and electronics, by Takis Zenetos (1926-1977), the brilliant architect who designed some of the most beautiful buildings in Greece during the 60′s and early 70′s.

The basic idea of Electronic Urbanism, which Zenetos designed, developed and investigated from 1952 to 1974, is the creation of a system with diverse levels and locations for different urban functions, primarily residential, suspended from natural environments (as cantilevers or mountains) and integrated with all communications technologies, that allow wide-ranging connections among people and social groups.

A Thesis on the Shelf

From the upcoming solo exhibition titled A Thesis on the Shelf, by Greek artist Elias Kafouros, from 25 April – 8 June, at AlphaΔelta gallery, Athens, Greece.

Previously: It’s not a game anymore

ΑΚΟΛΟΥΘΙ

ΑΚΟΛΟΥΘΙ aka The attendants, ongoing study on prostitution and trafficking by Greek photographer Myrto Papadopoulos.

” The reason, which made me launch this study, was the immediate increase of porn films in Greece in 2009 at the beginning of the financial crisis.. Many people are involved in the sex industry, some by choice but others by force. Greece continues to be on the primary gateways for illegal immigrants to enter the European Union and is described as a key entry point for people smuggling networks. One report suggests up to 90% of victims trafficked into the European member states will end up in the sex industry..According to the Hellenic Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the rate of Aids in Greece has gone up 60 percent since 2010..”

PLZ find more and support artist’s project on Emphas.is

Previously: Tokyo hotel by Nathalie Daoust

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.

 

Design + photos Werner Maritsas

You may find more here and there

blaqkblaqkblaqk3

blaqkblaqkblaqk3 by Simek aka Greek graphic designer & street artist.Chris Tzaferos.

Previously: Patterns explosion collage

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!

House A

A video on the gut renovation of an old 34 m2 studio with  small garden, in Athens Greece, by designer Werner Maritsas aka elasticeye aka myself. The footage was originaly made for Kristen Dirksen and featured at Faircompanies as “Athens tiny home grows with built-in furniture & fluid garden“.

Above a version edited by another member of our team, harisla aka architect Haris Lalousis.

The aim was to create a spacious, minimal and open space, out of an old and rather dark urban tinny appartment. Scroll down for photos

Sonké ondulé

Greek street artist Sonké using the corrugated construction fence as his canvas, spotted downtown Athens, by WWT earlier this year.

trip to India

India series from Greek photographer / style guru Mara Desipris.

Patmos, banned

Sign at the Central Square in Chora, Patmos, where the Monastery of Saint John the Theologian is located.
The sign reads: “Saint Lesbian Square, tiled by Theodoros N. Kokkinakis at 1904″
Though the word Lesbian originally means a female inhabitant of Lesbos, the letter “s” has been erased (by the Monastery?) to avoid any homoerotic misconception.
Ironically, due to the white brush stroke, the gay interpretation is even more obvious.
Photo by me. Sorry for the quality, but I (still) can’t afford an iPhone…
Check the sign before the censorship here.

Patmos, not banned

…On the other hand, a few meters away from Chora’s Central Square and still under the jurisdiction of the Monastery, you walk by a shop facade with miniatures of women bowing to a priest, a very popular souvenir due to it’s resemblance to a blowjob.
Photographed by the goddess Anna Von Chatziantonoglou.
(Continued from previous post)

Ζωή μαγική*

Portrait series made of magazine pages, by -on of my fav- Greek arist Alexandros Vasmoulakis.

Bleading

Clown drawing -acrylics on paper-  by Greek artist George Vaviloussakis

Pavlopetri

The digital recreation of Pavlopetri in Peloponnese, Greece, a 5,000 years old city, one of the oldest  submerged archeological town sites.

send by our dear friend Pavlos