Ξενοδοχείο "Άρνη". Το κτίριο που προσγείωσε τας Ευρώπας στην καρδιά της Καρδίτσας!

Ένα κτίριο πανελληνίως σπάνιου ρυθμού, που θα περίμενες να το δεις στο Παρίσι! Useful Information for English speaking Visitors (more pictures inside): 1921 hotel building in Karditsa, Thessaly. Rare for Greece rococo rhythm, total unexpected to exist in a city of  Thessaly prefecture. Unknown French architect. From 1923 until ~ 1940 it's central entertainment room (cafe, ballroom) hosted hundreds of shows (cinema, theater and many other) and it became the main social and entertainment center of the city and wider. Many Greek famous actors, artists e.t.c. passed from it's small scene. Many prime ministers, until today, stayed in "Arni".  A very strong earthquake destroyed the dome in 1954. The name "Arni" comes from an ancient city nearby, and it was given by the first owner Tertipis (politician), in order to honer his brother, that won the Turks there. Renovated in 2005, is a very special luxury hotel today, named "Domotel Arni Historic Hotel".

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Μεσοπολεμικόν ξενοδοχείον ο Ερύμανθος εν Παλαιώ Φαλήρω

Ένα από τα ελάχιστα σωζόμενα κτίρια του Π. Φαλήρου και από τα πιο γνωστά, λόγω σημείου. Useful Information for English speaking Visitors (more pictures inside): South Athens, Center of Paleo Phalero, coast square of  Flisvos, Posidonos Av. Built in the decade of 1920 as a hotel named Erimanthos (mountain between Achaia & Ilia in Peloponnese). A typical, rare, post neoclassicism, eclectic building, of this era in Athens. In the '20s Paleo Phalero was already the 2nd most developed coast suburb in Attica (after Neo Phalero), because of it's clean sea, with many restaurants, hotels and special villas of  mostly European and less classical style. After 1965 the area was altered as no other in Greece, with mass demolitions of the old buildings for blocks of flats and changes of the coastal environment. Today only few of the important buildings exist.

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Το πασίγνωστο "Μπάγκειον" του Τσίλλερ στην Ομόνοια. Παντού ζωγραφικός διάκοσμος! Διαχρονική σχεδίαση. Ο σπουδαίος Πάγκας, το καφέ σαντάν, το στέκι των κορυφαίων της νεοελληνικής διανόησης. Ευοίωνα παρόν και μέλλον.

Πορεία στο χρόνο, ανάλυση, εσωτερική φωτογράφιση.  Ένα κτίριο ιστορική, αρχιτεκτονική και κυριολεκτική κληρονομιά όλων μας, καθώς δωρήθηκε εν ζωή και συνεχίζει να χρησιμοποιείται για έργα "εθνωφελή και φιλάνθρωπα" εβρισκόμενο στην καρδιά της Ελλάδας. Useful Information for English speaking Visitors (more pictures inside): Hotel Mpagion, Ernst Ziller. 1890-94, Omonia square, Athens. Constructed for Ioannis Mpagas, a man who started from nothing from Koritsa, Epirus (today Albania), became rich and finally,  donated alive his estate to be used for good purposes for the nation & people in need. Beside Mpagion his similar residence of 1889, became also hotel in 1889, with the name "Alexander the Great". Both buildings belong to Mpageion foundation, that still exists and offers to the Greek society, thanks to the foresight and according to the will of it's creator - despite the different eras and the many difficulties. Remarkable points: 1. the internal design - fully reusable for most today needs. 2. Impressively many wall and roof paintings for a Greek neoclassical building. Today both building is planned to be renovated by the municipality of Athens, based on exemplary studies, donated from the Onasis Foundation, without destruction of the interior (a very bad, shortsighted, habit for buildings especially in the center of Athens). All the similar existing buildings in Omonia are highly remarkable architecturally and historically as well as the demolished in 1958, similar to Mpagion, "hotel Plaza".

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Ενημέρωση: 3 άριστες μελέτες - υποδείγματα, για τα Αθηναϊκά ξενοδοχεία "Μέγας Αλέξανδρος", "Μπάγκειον" και "Ολυμπιάς". Δείτε πως διατηρείται το εσωτερικό με ίδιο ή μικρότερο κόστος, όταν απουσιάζουν συμφέροντα και ανοησία

Ένα άρθρο απάντηση στην καταστροφική διατήρηση κελύφους και τις εύπεπτες δικαιολογίες που τη συνοδεύουν. Useful Information for English speaking Visitors (more pictures inside): Presentation of the excellent renovation project plans, for 3 old hotel buildings in Omonia square, Athens, donated from the Onasis foundation to the municipality of Athens. We present these to show that high quality renovations for modern use, without the destruction of the interior, that destroys many buildings in Athens center, with the excuse of modern use, is totally possible.

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Παλαιό Φάληρο, τα "Λουτρά Φρύνης" (πιθ. δημόσια λουτρά)

Ένα πολύ ιδιόμορφο κτίριο, από τα ελάχιστα που γλίτωσαν στην κάποτε ονειρική παράκτια ζώνη ανάμεσα στο Δέλτα Φαλήρου και το στρογγυλό κτίριο του Φλοίσβου, η οποία μετά το 1970 έχει αλλοιωθεί σε σοκαριστικό βαθμό. Useful Information for English speaking Visitors (more pictures inside): Rare, new-byzantine rhythm, former public hot sea baths or/and hotel (spa of old ages) named "Phryne baths", at the coast of Paleo Faliro, Athens. Built probably between 1910 -1920, has been restored at the end of  '90s , when it was destroyed internally for commercial use (modern offices). The point where the building is located had a completely different image mostly like an island until 1970, with the sea few meters in front of to the buildings. Generally, Paleo Faliro was a calm rural area that was famous for it's clean sea, full of western type, stone made villas and tower-houses. Very fιew of them still exist.
 

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