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Exploring Athens’ Modern Heritage with Big Olive
NTUA Professor P. Tournikiotis presenting the Rethink Athens project to DARK Arkitekter, one of Norway’s leading architectural firms....
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Big Olive
- Mar 20, 2016
- 2 min
ETH Zurich fieldtrip to Athens
Gruppenbild mit Tempel. Photo © Christoph Gantenbein “Timeless architecture carries a legacy, fits perfectly into the context, and gives...
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Big Olive
- Feb 9, 2016
- 3 min
Lord Byron: Amor e morte in Greece
The British Romantic poet Lord Byron (1788-1824) first arrived in Greece in 1809 at the tender age of 21, in search of adventure and...
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Big Olive
- Oct 22, 2015
- 5 min
Diario della terra - Interviewing archaeologist Valentina Porcheddu
by Stefano Serusi. This feature originally appeared in Cerchio Magazine. Translated from Italian by Yannis Zaras Valentina, on the...
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Big Olive
- Sep 17, 2015
- 4 min
An Elegy for Blue
Blue has a long and topsy-turvy history; first developed some 4,500 years ago in Egypt, it is believed to be the earliest artificial...
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Big Olive
- Aug 20, 2015
- 4 min
New Concepts for Greek Hotels
Xenia Motel at Meteora by Aris Konstantinidis (1960). Photo source: tourismlandscapes. The Glorious 50s & 60s – Until the 1950s, the...
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Big Olive
- May 21, 2015
- 2 min
Lust & A Literary Walk of Athens
“Creativity takes courage” – Henri Matisse Creativity takes courage, and the capacity to dare yourself inspires confidence. Confidence is...
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Big Olive
- Sep 18, 2014
- 5 min
Athens: Irregular and Indigenous
The battle between what architects and planners hypothesized on their drawing boards and how the urban dwellers went on with carrying out...
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Big Olive
- Aug 21, 2014
- 5 min
Mapping the Memories of Anatolian Refugees
Editor’s note: This guest blog post was written by Ciara Barrick a Literature and Ancient Greek student at the Richard Stockton College...
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Big Olive
- Jun 6, 2014
- 4 min
Greco-Nordic relations: Architecture, Royalty and Ikea meatballs
Scandinavians have brought many great things to mankind: the Nobel Prize, Abba, IKEA, Lego, and existentialism. But Greece’s relationship...
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Big Olive
- Jan 23, 2014
- 1 min
Literary Reflections
How could someone trace the literary and artistic history of a city through a walk, through specific sights and places, especially when...
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Big Olive
- Dec 19, 2013
- 3 min
Modernism in Athens
A guided walking tour past some of Athens’ best modernist architecture devised and led by Big Olive. Modernism visited Athens in person...
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Big Olive
- Nov 21, 2013
- 3 min
Discover Athens with Big Olive
Written by Alexander Clapp “If you haven’t seen Athens you’re a fool,” quipped Herakleides Kritikos. Twenty-three centuries later –...
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Big Olive
- Oct 24, 2013
- 2 min
TEDx Athens 2013: Uncharted Waters
Image © TEDxAthens If you haven’t been to a TEDx event or don’t know what it encompasses, let us be the first to inform you. TED is a...
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