Ellinikon International Airport, Athens Greece (Closed 200… Flickr


Ellinikon International Airport, Athens Greece (Closed 200… Flickr

architecture 309 shares connections: +4800 take a detailed look at 'the ellinikon,' greece's planned 'smart city' and largest coastal park with a star-studded cast of architects.


Ellinikon International Airport, Athens Greece (Closed 200… Flickr

The land itself was once home to the Hellinikon Athens International Airport, which opened in 1938, was expanded in 1969 and later in 1995, and finally closed for good in 2001 - although it resumed operations briefly during the 2004 Olympic Games.. offering a much-needed injection of green space into Athens as a whole. The Ellinikon's.


A view of the Ellinikon International Airport in Athens, Greece, which closed in 2001.

The original Ellinikon International Airport served as the main airport in Greece for 63 years. Up to 20 million passengers arrived or departed through its doors annually. However, in 2001, the new Eleftherios Venizelos airport (also known as Athens International Airport) was built to support the 2004 Olympic Games.


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The Ellinikon is an in-progress "smart city" that's coming to a former airport site near Athens. It will have a large park, homes, hotels, shops, a marina, and 31 miles of walking and biking paths.


Athens’ abandoned airport

Sasaki is leading the design to transform the site again and create the Ellinikon Metropolitan Park, a restorative landscape and cultural center in Athens.. The Athens International Airport was.


Abandoned Ellinikon International Airport May Greece's Largest Coastal Resort Condé

Located south of Athens' city center, the park will bring new life to the empty space around the former Ellinikon International Airport, once a bustling gateway to Greece. Lamda Development.


Athens Ellinikon International Airport (closed since 2001) East Terminal Greece pictures

It replaced the old Ellinikon International Airport. Athens International Airport is currently a member of Group 1 of Airports Council International (over 25 million passengers). As of 2022, it is the 19th-busiest airport in Europe and the busiest and largest in the Balkans.


Desolated airport of Athens will be transformed into resort. OUTLOOK

By Katherine LaGrave July 28, 2016 Getty Abandoned airports around the world have been turned into everything from massive parks to cruise ship terminals. Now, if a Greek development company's.


LGAT Athens Hellinikon Pilot Airport Information

Welcome to The Ellinikon-Europe's greatest urban regeneration project. Connecting the heart of Athens with its glorious coastline.


Urban Decay No more flights Athens' Abandoned Ellinikon International Airport

The Ellinikon Park is poised to become one of the most significant public spaces in Athens—an ambitious goal for a city celebrated for its iconic architecture and urban design. This park, however, is special.


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As part of Greece 's ambitious Ellinikon coastal masterplan, Bjarke Ingels Group 's stepping residential tower Park Rise is set to become a landmark addition to the skyline of Athens. Standing.


Athens Ellinikon International (closed) Airport Overview Photo by Farkas Tamás ID 1349701

Hellenikon Airport: Once the main airport serving Athens, these photos from 2020 show Hellenikon abandoned and left to fall into disrepair. Dimitris Sideridis Two decades of decay: The airport.


HELLINIKON AIRPORT… WAS IT REALLY THAT BAD? WHO WAS EERO SAARINEN? Athens international

The Ellinikon Athens, Greece: seafront homes at Europe's 'biggest real estate project' give golden visa rights - The development, on Athens' former international airport site, is three times the.


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The abandoned Ellinikon International Airport in Athens, Greece is set to be transformed into a new green urban district. The project, which has been in the works for several years, aims to revitalize the abandoned airport and turn it into a sustainable community space.


Ellinikon International Airport Alchetron, the free social encyclopedia

The Ellinikon, a military base-turned-airport-turned-Olympic venue, has been abandoned for nearly 20 years, producing a blot three times the size of Monaco on the glitzy Athenian Riviera.


Athens • Ellinikon International Airport (Closed) [ATH/LGAT] Greece AeroWorldpictures

2/6/2023 9 MIN READ By Leslie Nemo A green space larger than London's Hyde Park is coming to Athens, Greece. The expanse, called the Ellinikon Metropolitan Park, will stretch from the coast into the city on the grounds of the decommissioned Ellinikon International Airport.