Athens is enjoying its very own metamorphosis with a plethora of recently restored buildings, large-scale projects and fresh new openings
When Greece first flourished as a popular tourist destination, somewhere in the mid-20th century, it was largely for its well-established charms – warm sun, good food, crystal-clear beaches and treasures of an antiquity that helped define today’s Western civilisation. Fast forward almost a century, and all this remains true – if a little clichéd by now. Yet contemporary Greece is far richer than its well-explored tropes.
Deputy Minister of Culture and Sports Nicholas Yatromanolakis at EMST, the National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens, in KoukakiThe former Hilton Athens, one of the city’s most recognisable 20th-century buildings, represents this well.
Similar themes around community and sustainability are found in more Dimand projects. Some of the company’s assets in the nearby Agios Dionysios neighbourhood include office spaces that breathe new life into the area, coinciding with the arrival of neighbours that created a new international art district Galleries Rodeo, Carwan and The Intermission have made Agios Dionysios their home, reviving the formerly neglected industrial area.
The 1972 Piraeus Tower is currently being transformed into a mixed-use scheme with a new façade by young local studio PilaAthens also plays host to one of the largest redevelopment sites in the country – the former Ellinikon airport, which is being reinvented as a vast, mixed-use neighbourhood by owners Lamda Development.
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