Office building

3 Bakou St, Yerokomeio, Athens, 1986-1990

Architect
Vasilis Grigoriadis (1932-)
Associate architect
Asteria Panagopoulou



Cooperating architect Asteria Panagopoulou
The office building on 3 Bakou St, designed masterfully by the architect Vassilis Grigoriadis and his associate Asteria Panagopoulou, is an elegant expression of Greek late-modernism.
The building houses shops and offices. The aim of the architectural design was to ensure the clear distinction in the uses and functions of the building. It consists of a basement with a parking area, a service area and storerooms, a ground floor on the front of which is the shop and at the back is the entrance to the office building; above, there are three floors of offices. The plan of a typical floor is organised on a grid in order to provide flexibility in the laying out of the areas. The vertical circulation core and auxiliary areas are centrally placed for the office space.
The distinction of the building’s functions is expressed externally with the differentiation of the volumes and materials. The treatment of the façades is simple. The perforated wall on the construction line, which defines emphatically the building’s entrance and the projecting front of the shop, is faced with brick. The main volume of offices on the second floor is a simple rectangular prism with glass surfaces. Beside it another rectangular volume projects out of the vertical circulation core, likewise sheeted with visible brick. The total is a pure composition of three basic volumes. The outdoor and semi-outdoor spaces of the building are united so that the building is as much as possible distanced from the street.

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