New York University NYU

Located in one of the most renowned streets of downtown Athens, this beautiful neoclassical building was drastically restored and renovated to serve as NYU's first research center in Greece. Designed by TPA Architects (Thymio Papayanni and Associates) the building offers an incredibly bright and welcoming environment that creats a contrast with its more antiquated facade. The exterior of the building is dominated by the neoclassical features that are characteristic of old Athenian buildings, but it also hints at its refreshed interior through the contemporary but simultaneously fitting color palette that was chosen for the front of the stucture. The building interior was completely transformed and repurposed to serve as the ideal setting for education, research and interaction between faculty members and students. The use of class partitions to separate the space allows for a more open and bright environment, as it enables light to travel from one side of the building to the other. The research center was designed to offer a multitude of different rooms that cover a plethora of needs and used. These include two computer labs, several classrooms and common spaces, a few faculty offices, a conference room, a reading room, as well as two kitchens.