HUB26 — Divercity Architects
Thessaloniki, Greece
Photo · Kim Powell, Ektoras Nikolakis
An aerial site precedent showing a multi-block commercial campus that bridges industrial heritage and modern office design through terracotta masonry and continuous street arcades.
- What we like about this project
- The large-scale arches at the base give a heavy masonry block a sense of floating lightness.
Materials
- terracotta-brick
- glass
- concrete
Visual identifiers
- terracotta-brick
- ground-floor-arcades
- strip-windows
- urban-campus
Style tags
- contemporary
- contextual
- rationalist
Visual tags
- urban-infill
- commercial
- brick-facade
- contextual
- master-plan
- Geometry
- An urban cluster of mid-rise orthogonal office blocks featuring repetitive horizontal strip windows and prominent ground-level arched colonnades.
- Facade system
- Terracotta brick masonry bearing walls with punched horizontal ribbon windows and arched colonnade ground floor.
- Structural guess
- Reinforced concrete frame with masonry envelope
- Spatial scale
- Large-scale urban office development, with six-to-seven-story blocks lining a city street.
- Lighting
- Bright midday sunlight casting sharp diagonal shadows across the street and facade recesses.
- Atmosphere
- Structured, sunlit, and civic-scaled urban energy.
- Environmental context
- Expansive urban context with a mix of industrial remnants, mid-rise developments, and distant hillside sprawl in Thessaloniki.
- Spatial experience
- The complex forms a dense urban campus with continuous street-edge arcades that interface directly with the surrounding city fabric.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal bands of continuous glazing alternating with masonry spandrels, grounded by rhythmic lower-level arches.
- Style reading
- Contemporary contextual commercial architecture
- Program
- Commercial office campus
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- terracotta-brick, glass, concrete
- Visual identifiers
- terracotta-brick, ground-floor-arcades, strip-windows, urban-campus
- Style tags
- contemporary, contextual, rationalist
- Visual tags
- urban-infill, commercial, brick-facade, contextual, master-plan
- Geometry
- An urban cluster of mid-rise orthogonal office blocks featuring repetitive horizontal strip windows and prominent ground-level arched colonnades.
- Facade system
- Terracotta brick masonry bearing walls with punched horizontal ribbon windows and arched colonnade ground floor.
- Structural guess
- Reinforced concrete frame with masonry envelope
- Spatial scale
- Large-scale urban office development, with six-to-seven-story blocks lining a city street.
- Lighting
- Bright midday sunlight casting sharp diagonal shadows across the street and facade recesses.
- Atmosphere
- Structured, sunlit, and civic-scaled urban energy.
- Environmental context
- Expansive urban context with a mix of industrial remnants, mid-rise developments, and distant hillside sprawl in Thessaloniki.
- Spatial experience
- The complex forms a dense urban campus with continuous street-edge arcades that interface directly with the surrounding city fabric.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal bands of continuous glazing alternating with masonry spandrels, grounded by rhythmic lower-level arches.
- Style reading
- Contemporary contextual commercial architecture
- Program
- Commercial office campus
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- architecture