Elliniki Technodomiki S.A. office building

78a, Louizis Riancour St, 1988

Consulting architects
Tassos Biris (1942-)
Dimitris Biris (1944-2002)
Construction architect
Katerina Apostolou
Interiors architect
Artemis Anninou



The Elliniki Technodomiki S.A. office building is a typical work by architects Tassos and Dimitris Biris, professors at the NTUA who also won important competitions in the period between 1980 and 2000 because of the multi-level concerns and technological innovations of their proposals. This building is incorporated into the row building system and consists of a two-storey ground floor and seven additional floors. The irregular diamond-shaped lot led to a saw-toothed articulation of the façade that is surrounded by a solid frame, a continuous band without openings, that protects its glass surface. But the frame is not completed. The composition is characterised by the long lines defining the volumes in the spirit of abstract technological idealism.
The materials used in its exterior treatment are: rough, unplastered concrete (smooth or rustic), galvanised or brightly painted structural steel, transparent, non-reflecting or black crystal and rusticated concrete, which lend the building a natural material expression.
Protection from the sun is ensured by a modern mechanical structure of sliding and rotating aluminium louvers about 25 cm. from the glass curtain. The different positions that the roll-up shutters take and the angles of the louvers during the day make the building look as though it is constantly moving.
The building is distinguished by the unusually high quality of its construction.

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