The Kalligas apartment building

25 Vas. Sofias and Neof. Douka Sts, 1951

Architect
Kostas Kapsambelis (1905-93)



The white Kalligas apartment building is situated in Kolonaki, one of the most upscale districts of Athens, and is the most impressive example of the style prevailing between 1950-60, i.e. classicising modernism. It is a work by architect K. Kapsambelis, one of the leading figures in bourgeois architecture in Athens during the 1950s and 1960s.
The building consists of a ground floor and six others, the last two of which are set in. There are up to four apartments per floor.
The façades have been handled in a mood of calm grandeur alluding to bygone classicism. Features of this treatment include the monumental entrance, the emphasis on the symmetry axes, the slight projection of the central section containing loggias, and the tripartite division into base, including the ground floor which is emphasised with a cornice and a continuous band at the parapet level of the first floor, the trunk which corresponds to the four typical floors, and the crown which is defined by the cornice on the fourth floor.

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