News Greece’s tallest building is halfway complete Work on what will be Greece’s tallest building, the Riviera Tower, has surpassed the halfway mark, reaching 113m towards its final 200m height. Twice as tall as Greece’s current tallest…
News Grimshaw team to design Athens airport expansion The Anemos consortium, formed of the UK’s Arup, Grimshaw and Haptic Architects, Athens’ K-Studio and Denmark’s Triagonal was selected to design the expansion of Athens International Airport (AIA), set to…
News Hill to lead $1bn phase of Athens airport expansion Athens International Airport has appointed Hill International to lead the project management office consortium, including Aecom and Salfo & Associates as partners, for the airport’s ongoing expansion programme. The first…
News Thessaloniki finally gets its metro after more than 20 years Greece’s second city, Thessaloniki, saw its first metro transit system open for passengers on Saturday, 30 November, after work on it began more than 20 years ago. The 10km-long, east-west…
News 40,000 capacity Panathinaikos stadium approved for Athens Athens’ local government has approved construction of a new stadium for Greek football team Panathinaikos, located in Votanikos in the Greek capital’s south west. Designed by Greece’s A&S Architects, the…
News Work begins on Foster + Partners’ Athenian Grid Ground has been broken on “The Grid”, an Athenian office project designed by Foster + Partners and developed by local company Noval Property in association with Cypriot investor Brooklane Capital.…
News Mace, Jacobs oversee Greece’s ‘largest concrete pour’ Mace says it has made history in Greece, overseeing with JV partner Jacobs “the single biggest concrete pour in the history of the country” to lay the foundations for the…
News Qatar awards $10bn LNG contract to French–Greek joint venture QatarEnergy said yesterday that it had awarded an EPC contract worth about $10bn to a joint venture between France’s Technip Energies and Greece-based Consolidated Contractors Company. The deal aims to…
News “Largest urban regeneration project in Europe” in Athens will be fully renewable It has been announced that the Ellinikon, a 2 million sq m casino and conference centre development located on the site of Athens’ dilapidated Olympics complex and abandoned Hellinikon airport,…