Sponsors: GreekArchitects.gr, DuPont Hellas S.A., Technical University of Crete Department of Architecture, Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, Bakaao Art & Design College, diathlasis architectural lighting, Shelman, Leading Products, medwood, Design Shop, rkPi, ALTEAM, flashlight.gr, GRATV.gr,

Type: Open, International, Ideas

Eligibility: architects, engineers, designers, artists and students from Greece and abroad, individuals or teams.

Language: English

Registration Fee:
40 euro

Awards:
First Place: 5.000 euro
Second Place: 2.000 euro
Third Place: 1.200 euro
Honorable Mention (3): 600 euro

Timeline:
6 January 2010 – Competition notice, Registration Begins
End of January 2010 – Press Conference and workshop by an architect specialized in DuPont materials
3 February 2010 – Deadline for questions
10 February 2010 – Publication of the answers
31 March 2010 – Registration deadline
14 April 2010 – Deadline for proposal submission
End of May 2010 – Proposal evaluation
Mid June 2010 – Notification of results, Athens Exhibition

Jury: to be announced

Design Challenge: The initiative of our architectural ideas competitions is the localization of urban issues at vital points of Greek cities and the attempt to resolve them through Architecture, presenting to the citizens and State the real proportion of Architecture in the real urban space.

For all the above, a Tall Building at the port of Piraeus that is abandoned for more than 30 years was located. It is a 22-storey building, 84 m. tall and it is known as “Piraeus Tower”. The only tower of the area is “sleeping” in one of the bigger ports of the Mediterranean that presents a dynamic growth at the last decades.

The main issue of the competition is not the completion of another high rise building, whose completion is pending for years. The problematic exceeds the narrow limits of the dialectic regarding the construction or not of high rise buildings and skyscrapers in Greek cities and particularly in Athens.

The competition is focused only at the reconstruction of the external façade of the building in order to set off a synectic and clear position regarding the conversation of  the Tower with the Piraeus urban landscape and how this new “facade” takes part in and partially forms the relation between the Port, as an important entrance and exit point of the capital, and the urban complex of Athens.

There is no material restriction in each proposal- any material can be used. The only requirement is the use of at least one material of DuPont Company.

The objective pursued through the competition Piraeus Tower 2010: Changing the face. Façades reformation is to include the building in the urban landscape through the design proposal and to highlight it as the landmark for the wider area.

Submission Requirements: Proposals sent by email including 1 (one) jpg image file, max 2MB, 1 .doc file describing proposal in both Greek and English, and 1 pdf file with personal details

For more information, go to: http://www.greekarchitects.gr/competition2010/piraeus/en/