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Avery Associates Architects
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Client: The Onassis Foundation
The Onassis Foundation were in the process of building a new cultural
centre in Athens and required it to have two new performance spaces - a
multi-format theatre and concert hall seating 1080, and a new lecture and
film theatre seating 170.
The intention for the main space was to create a resonance with the
Onassis Foundation through the use of a shipping metaphor. The interior
therefore has been shaped to a timber hull-like form; the balconies have a
breaking wave-like leading edge and the ceiling is sculpted in back-lit
shimmering green glass layers - like looking up from underwater at the
rippled surface of the sea above. The intention for the new lecture and film
theatre was to create a cloud-like ceiling and walls made of stainless steel
mesh that would sparkle like the sun-lit Aegean Sea.
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