Battered down by economic woes, Greece is far from beaten when it comes to ambitious cultural plans. The Stavros Niarchos Foundation is spending $803 million to build a national library, opera house, and 42-acre park just south of Athens on a site used for parking during the 2004 Olympics. Once built, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center will be turned over to the state for operation and control in a public-private development first for the country.
The large complex is broadly reminiscent of the Acropolis with wide stone pathways that lead up a sloping hill (in part a green roof) to a 9,700 square foot glass room with a 100-meter square shade roof covered in photovoltaic panels. The glass room is just an outcropping of an over 539,000 square foot building sliding under the north end of the park that Renzo Piano has designed with a sort of Parthenon-meets-Mies-National-Gallery directness. The glass façade of the dual-program structure bifurcates within into a library indicated by a three-story tower stacked with books and an opera house with a contrasting smooth concrete shell. Tiers of red balconies stretch across both in a unifying gesture that extends to the exterior of the west façade.
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