Moxy Athens City

Conversion of an eight-storey office building of 8000 square meters dating back in 1967 into a modern 200-room hotel building.

Building the boundary of Omonia Square, from various period buildings, records the timeless history of the city's architecture, since its inception, from neoclassicism to modernism and to the most recent modern constructions. 

The timeless combination of the square’s boundary has emphasized the character of the view, the transformation of a modernist office building into a hotel.

The horizontal glass zones per floor give their place to a new mask, a sense of foliage made by small vertical angle bars painted in the color of the olive tree. 

The olive is the tree that linked its fate to the history of Athens. At the same time, the old static view is converted into a lively kinetics, where olive-trees panels rotate on a vertical axis, making the view breathable as if it were moved by the air. This new changing boundary is linked to the nature of the hotel's periodical accommodation. The neutrality of the ‘foliage’ and the movement of the panels are constantly changing the nature of the boundary. 

They change the connecting gaze between the square and the interior of the rooms. 

A background building for the neoclassical Bageion Foundation with a dynamic relationship of gazes that brings the relationship with the public space to life.

The deep floor plan of the existing building was a challenge in organizing the rooms and the movements in relation to the light and the view.