Micro homes

Italian architects Massimo Gnocchi and Paolo Danesi designed Mountain Refuge as a prefabricated cabin-style micro-home built from plywood.
The duo has founded a startup company to find a partner to make their prefabricated concept a reality
Gnocchi and Danesi designed Mountain Refuge as a contemporary twist on typical cabin typology that would help the occupants find a “connection with nature”.
Mountain Refuge is modular, so the design could stand alone as one 24-metre-square space, or include an optional second module to add 12 square metres of floor space.
The cabin has space for a kitchenette with a sink and stove, and could also feature a small but comfortable bathroom with a shower tucked away in one corner.
A deck could run around the external perimeter of the cabin to give its occupants a place to enjoy the weather.
Gnocchi and Danesi designed Mountain Refuge to not require foundations, but if the site required, a thin concrete slab could be used for some locations.

source: dezeen

Projects Golden Rule

A great project is that one that is not made with compromises, nor with tactic outside the ‘comfort zone’. It will become big, not because of too much attention or technique but for one and only one reason. Because it pursues perfection and the further it goes, the hunt becomes uninterrupted, almost relentless. Great works do not obey rules but create them. Leaving their indelible imprint on time.

A great project just makes you calm.

Ομάδα εργασίας για το branding του ελληνικού τουρισμού

Ομάδα Εργασίας Branding του ελληνικού τουρισμού με συντονιστή τον Στηβ Βρανάκη, επί σειρά ετών επικεφαλής του Δημιουργικού Εργαστηρίου της Google σε Ευρώπη, Μέση Ανατολή και Αφρική, συστήνει το υπουργείο Τουρισμού, υπό την εποπτεία του υπουργού Τουρισμού, Χάρη Θεοχάρη. Η ενέργεια αυτή, αποτελεί σημαντικό κεφάλαιο στο πλαίσιο της υλοποίησης του στρατηγικού σχεδίου για τη διαφήμιση και προβολή της χώρας στο εξωτερικό.

Στην ομάδα εργασίας, εκτός από τον Στηβ Βρανάκη, συμμετέχουν η Ιωάννα Δρέττα, CEO της Marketing Greece, η Ειρήνη Αναστασιάδου, Continue reading »

MVRDV selected by the Port of Thessaloniki to revitalise the waterfront

The Port of Thessaloniki has commissioned MVRDV to lead the evolution of the eastern part of the Greek city’s port into a modern urban environment and a multi-character major hub. The project, which will be MVRDV’s first in Greece, aims to raise the international profile of Thessaloniki and enable it to compete on the world stage.

As Greece’s second-largest city and the capital of the country’s region of Macedonia, Thessaloniki has historically been an important crossroads between the Balkan states, the Aegean Sea, the Mediterranean, and the Middle East. Continue reading »

MIT Researchers 3D Print a Bridge Imagined by Leonardo da Vinci in 1502— and Prove That It Actually Works

Unfortunate though it may be for the dreamers of the world, we’re all judged not by what we imagine, but what we actually do. This goes double for those specifically tasked with creating things in the physical environment, from engineers and architects to inventors and artists. Leonardo da Vinci, the original “Renaissance man,” was an engineer, architect, inventor, artist, and more besides, and five centuries after his death we continue to admire him for not just the works of art and technology he realized during his lifetime, but also the ones that never made it off his drawing board (or out of his notebooks). And as we continue to discover, many of the latter weren’t just flights of fancy, but genuine innovations grounded in reality.

Take the bridge Leonardo proposed to Sultan Bayezid II, who in 1502 had “sent out the Renaissance equivalent of a government RFP Continue reading »

Ο Λεονάρντο Ντα Βίντσι είχε σχεδιάσει για την Κωνσταντινούπολη τη μεγαλύτερη πέτρινη γέφυρα στον κόσμο

Ο Λεονάρντο Ντα Βίντσι έγινε διάσημος για τη «Μόνα Λίζα» και τον «Μυστικό Δείπνο», όμως στις αρχές του 16ου αιώνα είχε σχεδιάσει μια πέτρινη γέφυρα μήκους 280 μέτρων για την Οθωμανική Αυτοκρατορία, που θα ένωνε την Κωνσταντινούπολη με τον Γαλατά πάνω από τον Βόσπορο!

Η γέφυρα όχι μόνο θα ήταν η μεγαλύτερη στον κόσμο εκείνη την εποχή (περίπου δεκαπλάσια σε μήκος από τις τυπικές γέφυρες εκείνου του καιρού), αν είχε υλοποιηθεί, κάτι που τελικά δεν έγινε, αλλά θα ήταν και απίστευτα Continue reading »

Buying Greek Property

Foreign demand for Greek real estate is soaring as overseas investors are drawn by attractive asset prices and amid signs the Greek real estate market has bottomed out after years of decline. Data show that foreign investment in Greek property has more than doubled since last year to well over €1 billion euros, while property-linked residency visas issued under Greece’s Golden Visa program are up by a third and recently surpassed 2,000 in total. The vast majority of foreigners are buying properties in and around Athens, say industry sources, with investors coming from China, Turkey, Russia, Israel, Egypt, Lebanon and the United Arab Emirates. After falling by as much as 50% from their pre-crisis peak, Greek property prices have now stabilized, data show.

Source: National Bank of Greece
(https://www.nbg.gr/greek/the-group/press-office/e-spot/reports/Documents)

Apple Campus December 2016

We are impatient to see the new campus finished.

We are strongly inspired from

the technology,
the innovation,
the vision of the company and…
the dream of its founder.

We can prove it. Check the links from our blog below:

http://gktizein.gr/blog/?p=1451

http://gktizein.gr/blog/?p=1076

http://gktizein.gr/blog/?p=95

New Mexico Airport

Congratulations to the Mexican Government and the well known architect Norman Foster. They take seriously that new project, they have vision, produce culture, respect the environment, invest in the future, respect science and architecture. We will certainly visit this new airport, as soon as it will operate( the year 2020)…

An Interview to the Hotel&Restaurant Magazine

Executive Briefing for Tourism and Hospitality Professionals

by Isabella Zampetakis

“We owe it to our guests to offer our very best.”

Panagiotis Goutos, Civil Engineer and General Manager of G.KTIZEIN, addresses the architectural issues relevant to tourism today.

At what stage of development is the Hermione Hills? What are the architectural features that characterize the hotel?

PG .: The Hermione Hills is a tourism development project consisting of a 4-star hotel situated in a 45-acre olive grove close to Kranidi and Hermione in Argolida, in the eastern Peloponnese. The hotel is designed to accommodate a variety of tourism activities, including cookery lessons, congress tourism and agro-tourism. Our goal is to continuously operate the hotel throughout the year.
Like all of us, the Hermione Hills is moving at a pace dictated by the economic reality of Greece today. On the other hand, those of us participating in the project have not lost our courage. We have completed the architectural studies, which Continue reading »

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