Award / Auszeichnung | 05/2015
EUmies Awards 2015
©Erieta Attali
The wooden deck of bangkirai at the ending of the breakwater towards the sea, the linear paving and the building of the garden of memory in the backround
Redevelopment of the New Waterfront of Thessaloniki
Shortlist
Architektur
Projektdaten
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Gebäudetyp:
Landschaft und Freiraum
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Projektgröße:
keine Angabe
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Status:
Realisiert
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Termine:
Fertigstellung: 01/2014
Projektbeschreibung
The New Waterfront of Thessaloniki is a linear place with relatively limited depth and big length, a fact that gives it the characteristics of a “front”, of a thin layer, inserted on the difficult and challenging limit between land and sea, between natural and constructed landscape. The sea background of the gulf of Thessaloniki, constitutes an amazing scenery, where the ephemeral and mutable elements, create a different atmosphere each time.
For the waterfront of the New Waterfront, two major characteristic areas are distinguished, which set the principles for the basic choices of the proposal.
The breakwater: an ideal place for walking, without interruptions, without distractions. The “walker” is exposed to the light, to the open perspective, and has a continuous walk on the charming limit between two opposites: the stability of the massive breakwater – the instability and lucidity of the liquid element.
The green spaces: at the inner side of the coast, 13 green spaces were formed, as a succession of “green rooms – gardens”, each with a special thematic characteristic. The choice of this term, rooms – gardens, describes the intentions: it is about a sequence of spaces that attempt to maintain the familiar atmosphere of the private, while forming the public space. It’s not about big “parks”, but “rooms” of small size that remind of the domestic gardens that existed in the area and used to reach the natural seashore, before the landfill of the coast.
The names of the gardens are successively: the Garden of Alexander, the Garden of Afternoon Sun, the Garden of Sand, the Garden of Shadow, the Garden of Seasons, the Garden of Odysseas Fokas, the Garden of Mediterranean, the Garden of the Sculptors, the Garden of Sound, the Garden of Roses, the Garden of Memory, the Garden of Water, the Garden of Music.
©Bernard Cuomo
Τhe long walk of the quay, constructed by cast floor along the waterfront length and all
©Bernard Cuomo
View of the paving paths and the green areas in the garden of the afternoon sun
©Prodromos Nikiforidis
View of the water tank in the garden of sculpture
©Prodromos Nikiforidis
View of the garden of the sculpture
©Giorgis Gerolympos
Detail of the building in the garden of memory
©Giorgis Gerolympos
Interior view of the garden of the water
©Prodromos Nikiforidis
View of the wooden deck by bangkirai in the garden of seasons
©Bernard Cuomo
Green areas in the garden of sound
©Prodromos Nikiforidis
Interior view of the pavilion in the garden of sound
©Prodromos Nikiforidis
View of the paving, the wooden platforms and the green areas of the garden of music
©Giorgis Gerolympos
The marble water tank in the wooden platform
©Bernard Cuomo
Τhe long walk of the quay during a foggy day
©Giorgis Gerolympos
Walking snapshot at the linear platform of the garden of memories on a foggy day
©Prodromos Nikiforidis
Detail of the water jets
©Prodromos Nikiforidis
Detail of the marble water tank and the wooden platform
©Bernard Cuomo
View of the sculpture of Zoggolopoulos, and the surroundings formations covered with
©Bernard Cuomo
General view of the waterfront redevelopment with the Mount of Olympus in the