The Ramp House, Athens

Recently created by Archivirus Architecture and Design, the Ramp House is a response to the client’s request for a “skateable habitat”.

According to architect Athanasia Psaraki, the Ramp House is a project which tries to reconsider and redefine the living space. The result of the client’s request is a curved form interior, which “set the whole house as well as the inhabitant’s life, into motion”. LINK

Artists form the body politic

Body-painted performers stand in formation to depict the face of President Barack Obama during The Fall of Athens, a performance by the Swiss artist Dave at Filopappou Hill in Athens.

The ceremony was part of the Art Marathon, an international 42-year art “odyssey” that began in Athens in December and will travel around the globe until December 2050. LINK

Sunken Sister Ship of Titanic to be Underwater Seabed Museum

Sitting on its side at the bottom of the Aegean Sea, Titanic’s lesser-known sister ship is set to become a spectacular underwater seabed museum more than 90 years after the gigantic and luxurious Olympic-class ocean liner met her demise when she sank in 1916.

The ship was launched in February 1914 at Belfast, and put to use as a wartime hospital ship for the first time the following year. It sank off the Greek island of Kea near Athens on November 21 1916 when an explosion gouged a hole in its hull, while on its way to collect soldiers wounded in the Balkan campaign of the First World War.

Much mystery remains with so little known about her. Up to now the ship has only been glimpsed by a handful of divers, but the ocean liner will soon be open to tourists next summer.

The wreck of Britannic lies at a depth of 400 feet (122 meters), so visitors to the museum will reach the ship in small submersibles. LINK



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