The Wings

Redesign of a ten-story office building

in Athens 

A project upon the architectural study for the adaptive reuse and renovation of the existing office building located at the junction of Veranzerou and 3rd of September streets, in Omonoia, Athens. The existing building, a conventional construction of the 60s, consists of a basement, ground floor, mezzanine, eight typical floors and a roof.

The project claims to modernize and upgrade functionally, aesthetically, and energetically the existing ten-story building. The building retains its original use, with shops on the ground floor and offices on the upper floors, now fully adapted to the requirements of the modern era. A comprehensive redesign of the interior spaces with a neo-industrial aesthetic and remodeling of the building's facades was carried out with the aim of integrating it in a smooth way into the urban landscape of the area.

The intention was to highlight both the building itself and the wider area, without it competing with or degrading the neighboring historic buildings. The new shell has a modern architectural vocabulary. Cornerstone of the proposal are the vertical elements, "the wings".

P r o j e c t  d e t a i l s

Architectural design: Deda & Architects

Design team: Maria Deda, Varvara Karaoglou,

Fani Valsami, Evangelia Paschalidou, Ellie Vaskali, Dimitra Giannou

Owner: Tectonic 4

Structural design: Dimitris Antonopoulos

E/M design: EMDC K. Kapetanidis, N. Mertzios

Supervision: Anastasios Oglanis

E/M supervision: G. Tzanetoulakos

Associates: Arrikton SA

Photos: Spyros Hound Photography