Greek Architects Bag Awards for Eye-Catching Buildings

Greek architects have won a range of accolades awarded by a prestigious international panel at the DOMES 2018 event which took place at Athens’ Benaki Museum amphitheater.

Accomplished architects were invited to present the awards in the following categories: Best Accomplished Work, Best New Project by New Architect, Best New Architecture Work in an Existing Building, Best Unfinished Study and Best Unaccomplished Study.

Also, for the first time, the Colleague Award for the best unfinished study and best accomplished work, were given after a secret vote by the architecture teams that participated in the DOMES 2018 event.

Judges of the DOMES 2018 Prizes were:

• Alexander Brodsky, architect, director, Bureau Alexander Brodsky, Moscow – Russia
• Goncalo Byrne, architect, manager, Goncalo Byrne Arquitectos, Lisbon – Portugal
• Jurgen Mayer, architect, founding partner, J. MAYER H. und Partner, Architekten, Berlin – Germany

Award and Colleague Award for “Best Accomplished Work for the years 2013-2017”

Ring House
Residence in Agia Galini, Rethymnon, Crete – Greece

decaARCHITECTURE – Alexander Baitsos, Carlos Loperena

The Ring House is located on the southern coast of Crete. Two concrete beams form a ring, following the perimeter morphology of the ground at the top of a hill. The ring creates shadow zones, through-ventilated interior spaces and solar collector surfaces. It protects an indoor garden with a variety of citrus trees and herbs.

 

Award for “Best New Project by New Architect for 2013-2017”

Law firm and artist workspace
Pangrati, Athens – Greece

Agis Mourelatos

Two adjacent, but autonomous, ground-floor spaces in an old Athenian apartment building in the area of ​​Pangrati are converted after the conversion into a law firm and an artist’s workshop, respectively. A key element of the double intervention is the creation of two small, modular small-scale structures, independent of the existing building architectural style and structure, both facing the street. The aim of this project is to redefine the inhabitation of a ground floor in a dense urban environment.

Award for “Best New Architecture Work in an Existing Building 2013-2017”

Site-Specific Concept Space
Metamorfosi, Attica – Greece

A31 ARCHITECTURE, Praxitelis Kondylis

A ‘concept space’ in Metamorphosis of Attica, dedicated to modern Greek architecture, design, architectural lighting and modern art. The site is intended for exhibitions, events and events aimed at the promotion of Greek architecture and, more generally, the promotion of creative thinking in the field of applied arts. Architects, engineers, visual artists, lighting designers, landscape architects, industrial designers and graphic designers collaborated on the project.

Award in the category “Best Unfinished Study for 2013-2017”

Outdoor worship space
Casamance – Senegal

Theocles Canarelis

A sacred space for Muslims, Christians and Animists

For the believer, seclusion is important. ‘In the world, but not of the world’. The proposition is a metaphorical and literal outlet, a threshold between the two worlds: it stands between the sacred and the secularized void. Geometry results from geographic and religious references.

Colleague Award in the category “Best Unaccomplished Study for 2013-2017”

Not ROUNDabout
Reconstruction of Gavriil Haritos square in the area of ​​One Hundred Date Trees in Hermoupolis, Rhodes, Dodecanese – Greece

Elli Karyati, Danae Mavridou, Xanthi Sotiraki, Chrissi Sotiraki

The study deals with the redevelopment of Haritos Square / Ekato Hourmadies (1933), at the northern end of the city of Rhodes. A monumental work, a characteristic example of colonial town planning with elements of exotism. The design concerns the environmental upgrading and redefinition of public space in the tourist core of the city, where the oversized installations have been enclosed and impose a continuous circular motion, as if in a circular hub. In the study, the linearity of the square is enhanced and visual paths to the sea have been opened, while the unified design of the space, with the reordered roads and the pure geometric shapes, reinforce reintegration into the urban space. For the inhabitant, the square will be an annual destination and for the visitor, the starting point of a wider route.

 

Source: GreekReporter