In the heart of Athens, amid the winding streets of Plaka, preparations are nearing completion for a cultural milestone: the opening of the Odysseas Elytis House Museum on November 1.
ARCHITECTURE
A month after reports revealed that the birthplace of Greek novelist Elias Venezis in Ayvalik, Turkey, was in a state of near collapse, restoration work has begun.
The first phase in the restoration of the Byzantine Church of Saint Nicholas in Mesopotam (or Mesopotamos in Greek), a predominantly ethnic Greek village in southern Albania, has been completed, Greece’s Culture Ministry has announced.
Nestled atop the fifth hill of Istanbul, the historic Great School of the Nation and Patriarchal Academy of Constantinople has drawn visitors for centuries, its imposing facade an enduring marvel of neoclassical architecture.
The Supreme Court of Greece has ruled that the settlement of the island of Hydra, a protected historical site, cannot undergo building expansions.
Lost neoclassical facades of Athens are immortalized in the works of Yannis Tsarouchis, a prominent 20th-century modernist painter whose vision captures a world all his own.
An indifferent today but once famous office building of post-war Athens is situated opposite the medieval Byzantine church of Kapnikarea on Ermou Street in downtown Athens.
Filellinon Street, located between Syntagma Square and the Plaka district, across from Zappeion and the National Garden, near Nikis Street, and with the magnificent streets of Kydathinaion and Konstantinou Tsatsou forming corners, has the potential to become Athens’ model street.
The Athens Conservatoire, now completed, has become a destination not only for the city’s music and dance community but also for the broader cultural, business and political ecosystem of Athens.
The Environment Ministry has granted listed status to five lovely examples of eclectic residential architecture from the 1920s on a small street in the apartment block-packed central Athens district of Kypseli.
Amid the recent spate of earthquakes that shook the monastic community of Mt Athos in northern Greece last week, Archimandrite Vartholomaios, the abbot of the Esphigmenou Monastery, has made a dramatic appeal, warning that the building complex, which is occupied by religious zealots, is at risk.
For thousands of drivers and pedestrians traveling daily on Alexandras Avenue near the Panathinaikos soccer stadium, the view of the refugee apartment blocks has remained largely unchanged for at least 40 years: faded ocher facades, rickety balconies, peeling walls, tattered curtains, scattered satellite dishes and political and soccer slogans. Few notice the four black, neatly arranged banners on the only apartment building (out of eight) facing the avenue.
From Tositsa Street in central Athens, the imposing building of the old aristocratic art nouveau hotel Acropol Palace can be seen in all its splendor.
Stone-built, arched, proud or overgrown with weeds, the bridges of Epirus in northwestern Greece have carried thousands of stories of movement on their backs.
A computer-generated image illustrates the Culture Ministry’s plans for the radical overhaul of a former furniture factory at 260 Pireos Street in Athens, a space that is already used as an important cultural venue.
The Greek capital’s neoclassical past was showcased by the National Technical University of Athens’ Averof building which hosted the 350 Greek and foreign participants of the eighth international conference of the European Architectural History Network (EAHN), which concluded on Saturday.
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