Rena Sakellaridou

[2]  She also was featured in the exhibition “Frau Architekt” at the Goethe Institute in Athens in the spring of 2021, recognized as a female architect who “has made a mark on the evolution of Greek architecture in the past 100 years.”[3] SPARCH, like Sakellaridou, is well-recognized, having received numerous international and national design awards, including by the Hellenic Institute of Architecture.

As a child, she remembers her non-architectural dreams of being a captain on the seas, as she was born in the port city of Pythagoreion, as well as her later considerations of law school in light of her father being a judge.

[2] She credits her mother for encouraging her path abroad, and she acknowledges that her Canadian experience, by broadening her horizons, enabled her to begin to realize her dreams.

[8] The newer wing, on the northeast side of the preexisting 1960s Main Library, was built in 1999 and features a symmetrical rectangular form designed around a cylindrical atrium.

The office complex features two main solid forms arranged around a public square, facilitating views of the nearby Acropolis, and an atrium filled with glass skywalks.

The project, which lies substantially underground so as to minimize the impact on the urban fabric, emphasizes movement and light by transforming masses to voids.