RWC-04

I think one day Athens will be very crowded that some companies will move to Patras and I think highrises will be there...

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Giorgos

Why patras? Isnt Thessaloniki more logical since it is more accessible to the rest of Europe?

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Giorgos

Nice write up
I agree with skylineearth I think within the next decade we will have a few Skyscrapers atleast UC.

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gm2263

@ Rev

I hope I had something more to show you. Unfortunately, this drawing has been published by Mr Vikelas himself after a long period of silence, being one of the many that were kept hostages of the populistic and "cyborgian militancy" (as Prometheus from DDC called it once), of the dominant ideology in Greece and its proponents for the last 30 years.

It took me two years for instance to find out which is the height limit for Athens, before I discovered it myself that it is just 27 metres. Even architects and civil engineers could not provide me with a clear answer, probably simply because they did not know or worse, they were probably never in the need to surpass it, nor did they have any intention to.

Now, I know that we have many allies here but as I said in the main article, forumers and bloggers may not have access to the "real world". Even Mr Anastasakis, was only given a brief 30" to explain his views in NET television before the academic architect took over to talk about "human-sized scales" in a flat 5mn inhabitants monstrosity .

It is only when you make noise that the media will come to you and you need them -good or bad- to go on. The issue of building tall is not just a vision of some "grafikoi". After all, the way things are going in Greece, everybody with a vision becomes a "grafikos" while at the same time 20-year old TV personalities are given the chance to talk about their latest love affairs or astrology, so, why not us? I mean, a couple of vertical clusters in Athens greater area will revive the city and will put the economy together with culture (many new museums and other venues planned) and entertainment-shopping, into the game. When investors and economic development doesn't happen you invoke it. And this takes place by offering fertile ground for it.

I respect the views of the "ecologists" and especially the one of Mr Margaris who is a professor of eco-systems in the University of the Aegean. Click HERE to see what this guy says about building tall in Athens. Can you imagine that this guy, a professor of Ecology, is one of us? Well, yes, he is!!!

Now, as to the tower in Glyphada, probably Vikelas and his assiciates had in mind the Marina City skyscrapers in Chicago that have similar balconies as suggested by the following pictures (click on them for a much larger view):



Also, click HERE to see more pics of the Marina City.

Conclusion: It is absurd for a city of 5 million not to consider vertical expansion, especially for office use. Residenses I understand (for now ) but office?

The issue is still open and let's keep it open...

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ALL OUT FOR A TALL ATHENS

RWC-04

because, Patras is close to Athens and connected so easily just 3 hours by bus, with train, maybe shorter than 2 hours. Wonderful location and bridge. It doesn't have so much historical identity, but a modern city wich is open to the developments. Also a third well development city could be wonderful for Greece and its image.

IMO both Athens and Thessaloniki has different kind of identities, sutructures and beauties.

For example because of this I am against high rises in Ankara. Because Ankara has a different kind of identity.

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