Speeches Schedule
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.
Raffaela Parodi
The Renzo Piano Building Workshop (RPBW), based in Genoa and Paris, is known for its humanistic and collaborative approach, creating spaces that foster dialogue between people, ideas, and the built environment, as seen in its significant projects in Greece. Today, RPBW continues to advance this ethos worldwide, balancing innovation, sustainability, and a constant look toward the future.
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.
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.
designboom
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.
Dimitris Karampatakis
Liknon, Vourliotes, Samos
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.
ArchDaily
Giorgos Apostolopoulos | Ilias Papageorgiou | Elina Loukou | Dora Sweijd De Bock | Michalis Giannadakis
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.
Stephan Buerger
What is the significance of repurposing inactive infrastructures to meet new needs, and what challenges and opportunities arise in the transformation of such buildings?
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.
