The hotly anticipated new property from the stylish Thompson Hotel collection opened its doors, in Belgravia London.
A joint venture with The Harilela Group, the hotel is the first UK opening from Thompson Hotels, an elite portfolio of service and design-driven hotels in major urban cities including New York, Los Angeles and Toronto. Located on 20 Chesham Place, Belgraves brings with it a little New York attitude coupled with traditional British hospitality, to the prestigious and fashionable Belgravia district.

Spanning two levels, the ground floor (180m²) is home to the open plan living, dining and kitchen area, the bedrooms and bathroom. The recreational (TV – play room), auxiliary and storage spaces cover 60m² and span the residence’s basement. From here, a secondary auxiliary entrance links the residence to the garage.

On Pireos avenue the ancient route from the port of Pireaus to the heart of the city of Athens, a 10.000m² bare concrete structure houses a fashion business and its offices.

The design needed to respond to two fundamental urban necessities:
- To maximise the ratio of green space against built environment
- To develop a sustainable structure, with attention to environmental performance and economy on energy

Woodwing villa-ge is a housing complex in Ekali, Athens. It com-pri-ses of three typologies: a detached house, a building with four apartments and three semi-detached maisonettes. The buildings fit-in beautifully within the pine forested landscape. The starting point for the design of the maisonettes was American modernist architecture of the 1930’s - 1970’s.

Project
Busan Opera

Architecture
- Villa in Filothei
- Complex of three houses in Filothei
- Two residences in Penteli
- The Y Hotel
- Eurobulk office space
- G. Dogas square

16 Unique apartments, designed by the top Greek architectural firms, are included in the brand new, bilingual and international bookazine “Apartments” that has just been published.

In the luxurious print edition, contemporary interior design trends are highlighted, through thorough presentations of apartments, combining modern aesthetics tastes with technological innovation, within the frame of a beautiful city life.

“Apartments” is available in all newsstands throughout Greece and Cyprus and from January 2012 will be available at selected points of sale in the UK as well.

Villas 2011 follows another year in the evolution of detached houses in Greek urban areas, with a presentation of the most important private residences, designed by the top Greek architectural firms, all by way of a stylish and luxurious publication.

Maison de Campagne 2011 presents 15 rural residences, from all over Greece, which will lead readers far away from conventional urban designs.

The tower E.I.O.5 is a project of social housing promoted by INCASOL and it is located in a new central zone known as Plaça Europa (Europa Square). This urban model is a generous public space concentrates, within other buildings, 26 towers of tertiary and residential uses, between 15 and 20 floors. Tower 5 is located in the last ring of Europa Square, where most of them public housing, which distribution laws in the master planning fixes a maximum floor dimension of 24x24 m.

INTERVISTA is a clothing store located at the central market of Thessaloniki, in Greece. The store is developed in three floors: at the ground floor we find the men’s casual wear, at the basement the formal men’s wear and at the upper level the female’s wear. The main goal of this project was a store that looks more like a well-reserved loft ready to host clothes, rather than a modern store at the ground floor of a typical Greek block of flats, that ignores the character of the construction.

The apartment building block is located next to the golf court in Glyfada and It compromises of three apartments 250m² each.

In general the building is designed to comply to principles of energy efficiency, through careful planning of orientation, materiality and apertures.

In an old school building on the “Oude Gracht” in Utrecht was once on the ground floor a gym, dressing rooms and a staffroom. The rest of the school building was developed by a developer, but the gym, dressing room and staff room were sold as a separate item. Because of the newly developed upper apartments and their new roof terraces skylights were closed in the gym ceiling. To get more daylight back into the house a patio was added to increase the living quality.