Bank of Crete Branch

Voukourestiou and Valaoritou Sts, Athens, 1975-78

Architect
Constantinos Decavallas (1925-)
Associate architect
I. Hitzanidi-Vlahaki



Designed in the spirit of mild contrast with its urban surroundings, this building by Constantinos Decavallas is a late example of tamed brutalism.
It is an eight-floor building of mixed function in the centre of Athens. The main branch of the Bank of Crete (now Cretabank) is housed on the ground floor and in the two basements, while the administration area occupies the first two floors, which communicate by means of an independent lift. The other floors - the third, fourth and three inset top floors - house offices.
The treatment of the elevations expresses the main functions of the building and reveals its structural members of reinforced concrete.

TRANSPORTATION