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The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat announced its support of the “Piraeus Tower 2010 – Changing the Face/Façades Reformation” competition organized by GreekArchitects.gr, e-magazine for architecture with co-organizer DuPont Hellas S.A. With this competition GreekArchitects.gr continues its actions and aims for the development and promotion of architecture in Greece.
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The challenge
A Tall Building at the port of Piraeus – the Piraeus Municipality belongs in the urban area of the city of Athens which has a population of 4,000,000 – has been abandoned for more than 30 years. It’s a 22-storeys building, 84 m tall and is known as the “Piraeus Tower”. It’s often called “the sleeping giant” due to its abandonment. The only tower of the area is “sleeping” in one of the bigger ports of Mediterranean that presented a dynamic growth the last decades.
The challenge for the Tower is to become a landmark at the port of Piraeus and to be highlighted, with its modernization, as one of the most important architectural buildings not only for the city of Piraeus but for the whole city of Athens.
Each proposal shall show a consistent and clear position of how the tower is conversed with the Piraeus urban landscape and how this new “view” takes part in and partially forms the relation between the Port, as an important way of entrance and exit of the capital, and the urban area of Athens.
Click here to download a press release of the competition or visit GreekArchitects.gr for more information.
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