Amalia Hotel

10 Vas. Amalias Ave, Athens, 1957-59

Architect
Nicos Valsamakis (1924-)



This was one of the first modern hotels in downtown post-war Athens, with a distinctive appearance and remarkable durability over time, despite subsequent changes in its public areas.
It has a ground floor, six upper floors and a flat roof with a total capacity of 93 rooms. The ground and first floors comprise the public areas and the two-storey entrance. The functions are distinguished in the tripartite arrangement of the façades into base, trunk and crown. The base consists of the colonnaded ground and first floors with a balcony providing the horizontal element. The first floors of rooms that constitute the trunk have a two-part: the wall with its glass windows and doors and the projecting surface with the balconies organised on a rectangular grid. On the side facing Xenofontos St the façade is treated with glass and marble, partially revealing the building’s skeleton. The crown is the set-in top floor. The hotel is faced with white Pentelic marble.

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