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| Sights
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|  NEA FILADELFIA (Suburb of Athens) ATTIKI |
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The grove of Nea Filadelfia
Photo Album in URL, information in Greek only.
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| | KOLONOS (City quarter) ATHENS |
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Railway Station (Piraeus-Peloponnese)
The main characteristics of the buildings are the "Bouniato"
on the four sides, the frames of doors and windows, the false-roofs, the big wooden-bar
doors, the decorating strips running across the walls of the buildings, that are
all made of stone and are covered by wooden roofs of tiles. Some stations have
rather peculiar architecturally-wise toilets and stone-made water reservoirs.
The railway stations of the Piraeus
- Athens - Peloponnese
line give some of the first examples of industrial architecture in Greece.
The railway stations buildings combine functional plainness with remarkable
architectural solutions and most interesting morphological elements. By a ministerial
decree of 1985, the buildings were identified as preserved monuments.
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| | PANEPISTIMIO (City quarter) ATHENS |
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The Academy of Athens
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The National Library
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Student club and the University of Athens
The building of the Student Club was constructed in the period between
the two World Wars, with plans based on the study drawn in 1927 by the architect
E. Lazarides. Today, it belongs to the National
and Kapodistrian University (Bequest of Papadakis).
The edifice is an eclectic one has a characteristic curve on its corner.
It is five-stories high and its base-body-crowning parts are distinctly separated
between them by jutted cornices. Another characteristic element is the different
style of the openings at the stories.
By a ministerial decree of 1988, the building was identified as a
work of art because of its eclectic elements on its facets and of its important
theater housed in its ground-floor (which is important for the study of the theatrical
development).
In 1991, its facets were restored after some rotten varnished parts
started falling down. The restoration study was conducted by the Technical Services
of the University of
Athens. Today, the building houses shops and the students’ theater in
the ground-floor and the first floor, the students’ restaurant on the second
and third floors, and offices on the last floors.
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The Eye-Clinic
The
building housing today the Athens Eye-Clinic is a rare sample of a romantic
edifice of a Byzantine
style in Greece. The central
building consists of the basement and the ground-floor (first phase, 1847-1854)
and chamber floor (second phase, 1869). The outpatients’ department is located
in the ground-floor (1914-1916).
The Eye-Clinic was built by the architect Hans Cristian Hansen and
later on, the architect Lyssandros Kaftatzoglou proceeded in some adjustments,
like the one in the entrance which used to be covered by an arcade with two columns.
In 1869, the architect Gerasimos Metaxas, expanded the northern side to 6,50 meters
and added one floor. In 1914-1916, the Sina Street building (outpatients’ department)
was constructed by the engineer Aristides Balanos. In 1992, a restoration and
conservation study for the Eye-Clinic was approved.
By a 1962 ministerial decree, the main and the auxiliary building
of Sina Street were identified as a work of art.
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