Speeches Schedule

Andrew Waugh

Andrew Waugh explores how timber architecture — from small-scale prototypes to large-scale urban interventions — can redefine the future of cities through low-carbon, human-centered design.

Marc Solsona Bernet

Marc Solsona Bernet Head of Europe at Material Bank showcases the platform and how it enables complex searches across hundreds of brands and thousands of materials in seconds.

Nikos Siapkaras

In Votanikos — an extensive former industrial zone with limited public activity until recently — the new Panathinaikos stadium introduces an urban catalyst that activates a long-dormant development cluster.
Its operation will draw thousands of visitors, employees, and suppliers, generating steady flows of people and activity in an area where daily movement was previously minimal and tied to specific auxiliary functions.

Loukia Iliopoulos

The Ellinikon Masterplan and Riviera Tower, exploring how context-driven architecture shapes the firm’s global practice and its landmark projects in Greece.

Speakers:
Dimitris Karampatakis — Founding Member & Creative Director, K–Studio
Panos Kostoulas — Architect & Founding Member, Boulouki
Houiti Konstantinidou — Director of Hospitality, Cultural Heritage & Events, House of Metaxa
Konstantinos Karantzoulis — Landscape & Surveying Engineer – Route Designer at Paths of Greece

Liknon is a series of gentle interventions within the century-old vineyard of the Metaxa estate in Samos — elements that act more as landscape infrastructure and less as a conventional museum building. Dry-stone walls, passages, courtyards, terraces and shaded seating areas, structure a route that immerses visitors in the landscape and the cultivation of the muscat grape, integrating the experience into the terrain without altering it.

Giorgos Apostolopoulos | Ilias Papageorgiou | Elina Loukou | Aimon Litinas | Christiana Karfi

ArchDaily’s Editor-in-Chief, Christele Harouk, once again welcomes five architectural firms that stood out in the Building of the Year Awards.

GIORGIO VAFIADIS & STEFANO VAFIADIS

Grab your deck shoes and join Studio Vafiadis as they reveal how spatial mastery, cultural insight and technological integration elevate the luxury-yachting experience – for owners, guests and crew alike.

Ruedi and Vera Baur

Ruedi and Vera Baur unpack the design of the Grand Paris Express passenger information system – an ambitious visual programme spanning 56 new stations that serves to shape movement, clarity and public space across the greater urban region.

Luke Pearson

Join us for a deep dive with Pearson Lloyd into the design of Lufthansa’s new Allegris Business Class – a ground-up rethink of long-haul travel through modularity, user profiling and spatial innovation.

Speakers:
Tilemachos Andrianopoulos — Director, Tense Architecture Network
Panagiotis Tournikiotis — Professor Emeritus, NTUA · President, Hellenic Institute of Architecture
Efthymios Bakogiannis — Secretary General for Spatial Planning & Urban Environment, Ministry of the Environment and Energy · Assistant Professor, NTUA

The “Dikastiria” metro station is one of the 15 stations of the new landmark Line 4 and one of seven new stations created in the center of Athens through an open public architectural competition.
The city invests in architecture not only to build mobility infrastructures, but also to establish new landmarks, meeting points, and exemplary public spaces within its neighborhoods.

Speakers:
Stephan Buerger — Director, buerger katsota architects
Giorgos Pantazis — Athens Division Director, Samaras & Associates Consulting Engineers
Thanos Danilof — Director, DANILOF studio light + perception
Konstantinos Aloupogiannis — Project Director, Hill International, Inc.

What is the significance of repurposing inactive infrastructures to meet new needs, and what challenges and opportunities arise in the transformation of such buildings?

Juan Ramirez

3XN is an internationally renowned Danish architecture firm known for its human-centered and sustainable design approach, combining innovative form-making with research-driven strategies to create architecture that inspires, connects, and endures. Partner Juan Ramirez highlights how the studio’s projects—from Sydney’s QQT and London’s Euston Tower to Crete’s Hotel Niko and the soon-to-be-completed Sydney Fish Market—are redefining sustainable and circular design through innovation and research.

Graeme Davidson

How is luxury living redefining hospitality? Graeme Davidson of HBA Residential joins designboom to discuss the global trends shaping the future of premium design and driving Greece’s fast-evolving architectural landscape.