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Spectators at the stadium of Greek football team Olympiacos can dine overlooking the pitch at a restaurant with an undulating ceiling and a bar made from cooking pots (+ slideshow).

Designed by Greek studio LM Architects, the V’ammos Restaurant is positioned directly above the stands to give diners a panoramic view into the 32,000-seat Karaiskakis Stadium, located in the south-west of Athens.

The architects made reference to the stadium’s coastal situation by giving the space a wave-like ceiling. “We were inspired by this association and the outcome is the replication of the movement of the sea waves,” architects Mariza Angelidi and Lila Galata told Dezeen.

“The construction was adapted to hide the structural elements and the electromechanical installations, while at the same time allowing access to these units,” they added.

Around 300 metal cooking pots were stacked up in a line beneath a wooden counter to create the bar at the back of the restaurant.

Furniture includes tables with round and square surfaces, designed especially for the restaurant by LM Architects.

Other eateries we’ve featured from Athens include a rustic pizzeria and a dimly lit patisserie.

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Photography is by Studio Paterakis.

Here’s a project description from LM Architects:

V’ammos Restaurant in Piraeus
Karaiskakis Stadium

The shell that houses the restaurant- Karaiskaki Stadium, which is built over the water, was a benchmark in the design proposal.

The wave of the sea that existed in place is introduced in the design of the space in the form of an optically moving roof element. This element, which is the result of parametric design, dominates the environment and gives identity to the restaurant.

Strong feature of the composition is the elongated bar, consisted of 300 cooking pots. The bar is an art installation itself, where the identity of the object is lost to highlight the visual impression created by its repetition and correlation in space.

The linear layout of the floor plan is framed by successive separate rooms and the overwhelming ambience of the stadium.

Total Surface: 300 sq.m.
Design: 2012
Construction: 2012

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Sugary treats are arranged like ingredients for potions inside this dimly lit patisserie in north Athens.

Greek firm Kois Associated Architects designed the shop, named Sweet Alchemy, for celebrity pastry chef Stelios Parliaros.

Some of the sweets and pastries on sale are contained inside neatly labelled jars, while others are divided up on large storage tables.

Sets of old-fashioned scales are positioned around the shop for weighing precise quantities.

In the shop window, more jars and containers are displayed within a floor-to-ceiling bronze shelving grid.

If you’re partial to pastries, you may want to check out the other patisseries we’ve featured, including a shop dedicated to macaroons.

Photography is by George Sfakianakis.

Here’s a little more text from Kois Associated Architects:

The project is the design of the new ‘Sweet Alchemy’ pastry shop in Athens Greece.
The store is located in the up market suburb of Kifisia in the northern region of Athens. The client is Stelios Parliaros who is considered to be the best Patisserie in Greece, author of many culinary books and host of a very popular patisserie show in Greek TV.

Alchemy a notion associated with darkness mystery and mysticism practiced in laboratories full of peculiar enigmatic devices, rare distils crystals and potions. These images were the starting point for the development of a central idea, the recreation of this atmosphere in a contemporary outtake.

The space is characterised by the high degree of transparency which was manipulated in order to diffuse the light and filter the optic penetration. The role of light was highly regarded and thoroughly studied since the beginning in order to create a unique solution for the particular location and user. Light and shadow change throughout the day giving the space a unique atmosphere every moment. Serenity is followed by tension and drama.

The punctured bronze skin of the main facades creates the impression of the chamber of treasures, of the golden cage which encloses the precious, the rare commodity, the sin of the pleasure of the forbidden fruit.

The philosophy behind the choice of materials was in tune with the philosophy of our client. Selection of the raw materials and no substitutes, Iron, bronze, copper and wood were selected for their natural characteristics and were only processed but not altered in order emulate an appearance.

Our purpose was not the stenographic representation of a mystic environment but the formulation of the spirit of the place, the ‘genius loci’, the atmosphere that will saturate the space and will transform it to a true place with its very own distinctive character.

The sense of mythical, the mysterious discovery and the transition to an other reality were the characteristics of the ‘Sweet Alchemy’ of Mr. Parliaros and those we wanted to transfuse to the new store.

Principal Architect: Kois Stelios
Design team: Patsiaouras nikos, Marielina Stavrou. Philipos Manolas
Construction: Korfiatis Kostas

Brazilian designers Humberto and Fernando Campana have completed their first hotel interior.

Architecture graduates from the University of Thessaly assisted the brothers with the refurbishment of the 79-room hotel in Athens, now known as New Hotel, for the Yes! Hotels chain.

Walls in the reception and restaurant are covered in a jumble of wooden scraps like those used for the designer’s famous Favela Chairs, which can be found in some of the bedrooms.

Bedrooms also feature wall-mounted fairy-tale characters and glass eyeballs, which symbolise elements of Greek mythology and superstition.

Bathrooms contain faceted brass washbasins designed to look like fragmented rocks.

A 1940s marble staircase is retained and surrounding walls are lined with tree bark that has been processed into wallpaper.

Other interiors by the Campana brothers include a bank lounge resembling an Amazonian communal dwelling – see all our stories and movies about the Campanas here.

Here are some more details from Yes! Hotels:

‘New Hotel’, Athens opens – First hotel venture by design duo The Campanas

‘New Hotel’ opened in Athens on 1st July, a member of the Yes! Hotels group. ‘New Hotel’ is the first hotel venture by award winning Brazilian designers The Campanas and the Design Hotel features striking interiors, quirky bespoke furniture and handmade fixtures throughout.

The 79 room hotel is located on Filellinon Street, next to Constitution Square (Syntagma Square) and within walking distance of the main sights – the Roman ruins of Plaka, the Acropolis and its new museum, the stylish cafe and boutique shopping district of Kolonaki, and the business zone.

New Hotel houses ‘New Taste’ Mediterranean restaurant and a fitness area and massage rooms.

Brazilian brothers Humberto and Fernando Campana led the design of the luxury hotel, in collaboration with 20 local archiecture undergraduates from the University of Thessaly. In line with the design duo’s love of restoring, recycling and sharing, the team created unusual and stylish chairs, plates and side lamps by hand.

Working with the students for an insight into local culture, the Campanas focussed on three traditional Greek themes. The first pays homage to Karagiozis, a mischievous folklore shadow puppet, with golden fairytale characters adorning the walls. The second theme embraces the ‘evil eye’ – a bead charm used to guard against ill omen, with handmade glass eyes illuminated for an arresting effect. Finally, the third uses a wall collage of historic postcards to offer a glimpse of old Athens through a very modern design twist.

The bedrooms feature floor to ceiling windows, solid bamboo floors and tables, while the bathrooms showcase striking solid brass washbasins in the shape of fragmented rocks with Kiehls and Clarins products.

Corridors are covered in bark cloth from Uganda, a natural wallpaper produced by processing bark from the Moraceae tree.

The hotel was formerly the Olympic Palace Hotel and while strikingly modern in design today, original features have been retained, including the 1940s black marble staircase.

Located on the ground floor, ‘New Taste’ restaurant is inspired by the Campana’s iconic Favela chair, with columns covered in long narrow strips of wood, reminiscent of the favelas in Brazil.

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The interior of this cycling shop in Athens by React Architects of Greece is clad in bands of oriented strand board and artificial turf.

The shop displays bicycles in four distinct areas downstairs with clothing and accessories on an upper mezzanine.

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Here are some more details from the architects:

Cyclist shop in Athens

Opposite from a central Metro station of Athens we designed and built the second store of the bicycle company cyclist.gr . The shop consists of a ground floor area of 400 m2 and a mezzanine of 150 m2.

The design concept introduces the user in a way of life that is influenced and coexists with the bicycle.

The ground floor contains the main exhibition space with four big thematic categories. City bicycles, Mountain bicycles, race bicycles and finally kids bicycles.

In the vertical surfaces bicycle parts are displayed. In the same level we have placed the bicycle repair shop as well as the space of the bicycle community (forum). The mezzanine serves the clothing and footwear department.

The particular shop is not faced only as bicycle shop but it incorporates in the planning elements, conditions and spaces that a biker experiences:

• Countryside and City
• Nature drive and city streets
• Amusement and Sports
• Urban Way and Mountainous Ascent
• Tool of Transportation and Travelling Medium
• Athlete and Amateur

The objective was the unification of space that was found in different levels. A “ribbon” that unfolds starting from the shop’s entry in a depth of 40 m. varying in thicknesses and heights, constitutes the main design tool. It creates space of entry, display area in the shop’s façade and in the interior, surfaces of suspension of products. In the flooring it signals the course in the whole extent of the shop and finally leads to the mezzanine.

Basic materials of covering and creating of surfaces for display are: OSB “oriented strand board”, artificial turf, pebbles.

The above materials create space of display, passage, suspension of pictures, display of products etc. They are placed in the floor in the walls and finally in the roof.

The combination of surfaces from different materials that are layered one on top of the other, in the whole extent of the shop creates an intense depth of field that invites the visitor.

“Nature” as it is expressed via the materials makes apparent her presence in the space. The creation of space through blurring the limits between artificial and natural constituted the basic idea of design.

Architectural Study: React Architects

Deliyianni Natasha – Spiridonos Yiorgos
Collaborating Architect: Anastasiadou Evi Architect
Lighting study: Fotismos edu
Construction Supervision: React Architects
Store Area: 550,00 m2
Company : cyclist.gr
Location : Athens , Holargos

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Greek architect Aristeide Antonasto has designed a metal-clad extension on stilts for a courtyard in central Athens.

Called Meteorite Unit – Leonidou 58, the four-storey building will be covered in prefabricated metal mesh panels and connected to an older building in the courtyard by external steps.

The building, one of 45 projects by developers Oliaros in the Kerameikos-Metaxourgeio area of Athens, was recently awarded best future project designed in 2008-2010 by Greek Architecture magazine DOMES.

Read more about the Kerameikos-Metaxourgeio district on the Oliaros blog.

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The information that follows is from Oliaros:

Meteorite Unit – Leonidou 58

“Meteorite Unit – Leonidou 58”, designed by Aristides Antonas, won the Greek award of ‘The Best Project of the Years 2008-2010’, in the framework of DOMES 2011 awards. The project is one of the KM Properties project, an Athens City Center regeneration project developed by OLIAROS in the area of Kerameikos Metaxourgeio (KM). As part of the same regeneration project, OLIAROS organized in 2010 the UPTO35 International Architectural Competition which concluded with the 18+ student housing project .

“Meteorite Unit – Leonidou 58”, is one of the 45 projects consisting the ΚΜ Properties project, OLIAROS’ new project in the Kerameikos – Metaxoureio (KM) area.

A new metallic construction levitates over a small terrain in Athens in order to propose a micro-transformation of the public space: part of the designed ground floor functions now as a small city square.

The scheduled building is placed in an old small house complex. More than the half of it is destroyed; the project deals with an elaboration of the remain and the new metallic addition on Leonidou St in Athens, Kerameikos-Metaxourgeio.

The houses of the period were organised around a courtyard. One can find the specific typology in Aris Constantinidis’s study ‘The Old Houses of Athens’ (in Greek – Athens 1950). Constantinidis, an interesting Greek architect honored by Frampton and Leatherbarrow , was particularly interested in the architectural constitution of the interior courtyards included in these small house complexes and was not interested in their neo-Classical components, which he systematically passed over in silence.

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The scheduled building restores a part of some lost unitary whole. A basic endeavour of the present design has been to highlight the existing neoclasical section (from one side) and to reinterpret the vernacular neo-Classical composition, at the same time adapting it to the present condition.

A reading of the specific urban convention is of particular importance. A six-storey building has been erected next to the scheduled one. The absence of the specific part of the whole composition gives an opportunity for some contemporary extension of the neo-Classical part; the extension would reschedule the ensemble and its courtyard under a different light; the new section elaborates some principles of the old complex, but now undertakes the significant function of transferring the old urban convention to the new, of the remain’s transfer to a contemporary urban proposal.

The ‘meteorite unit’ takes shape as a metal structure. The elevation of the annexe on Leonidou St is organised by the use of a metal ‘canvas’ which is filled in with ready-made grid-like surfaces. These surfaces are formed by grids used in mechanological installations.

They are suspended on a metal frame, thus constructing a visual filter through a controlled variety of motifs. The rear elevation of the meteorite unit, towards the scheduled building, is covered by plate glass, thus turning the new building towards the courtyard.

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The suspension convention of the proposed unit produces a desirable extension of the public space: the conditions of the area require an increase in the percentage of public space and for this reason it was decided to cede a private area to the city. At ground-floor level transparency is the chosen result after the elaboration of the public space.

Description of project: Restoration of a listed building and erection of a three-storey annexe
Location of project: 58 Leonidou St, Metaxourgeio, Athens
ANTONAS office
Architect / Aristide Antonas
Civil engineer / Christos Kaklamanis
Collaborator architect / Katerina Koutsogianni
Client / OLIAROS property development

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