MPNYC converts a 19th-century Piraeus warehouse and its 1990s nightclub addition into Castor Place, a flexible arts venue where old and new layers stay visible.
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Local Local revisits a telephone seat from Sirigos’s archive with a compact maple chair, exposed joinery and a renewed place for conversation.
K Studio has extended Dexamenes Seaside Hotel in Kourouta, Greece, adding eight elevated rooms above historic concrete wine tanks converted into seaside accommodation.
It was under this calm warmth that we first met Kostas Lambridis. Standing in the light, he waved us up with an openness that immediately dissolved any sense of distance.
- Pontoatelier builds three freestanding rooms in Matosinhos to house the Lucio Costa Archive
- Tadao Cern’s French Exit hangs a wheat field overhead and leaves it in the care of others
- Marius Boekhorst’s Violet Pixel turns flowers into an abstract painting behind patterned glass
- In Piraeus, MPNYC turns a scarred port warehouse into Castor Place without erasing its past
- KiKi ARCHi turns The Ongoing Future in Beijing into a circular journey through AI
- Heatherwick Studio’s 1000 Trees lifts a park onto columns above Suzhou Creek
