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.