Editorial: Embracing Context and Soul
Across architecture and design, this selection from Greece listens to place and answers with clarity. In cities and on islands, the work respects what already exists and adds only what helps it live today. Materials and craft lead the conversation, while technology opens new options. The shared tone is curious, precise, and human.
The selection shows exceptional sensitivity to the built and natural environment, featuring careful renovations in cities, especially Athens, and new works on islands like Santorini with its iconic white and blue buildings. Architects listen deeply to their contexts, integrating modern life with respect and making novelty inseparable from the local environment. Design projects, varied in typology but united in spirit, combine playfulness with precision, where material knowledge meets geometry and technology supports craft. From glass tables that draw light to city scooters shaped for clean movement, this selection embodies curiosity and clarity.
Blažka & Tanja,
Editors
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Each BIG SEE Focus presents a curated selection of the best recent architectural and design projects from a selected country, completed or launched in the past year. This selection reveals depth of thinking, sensitivity to context, and the capacity to shift perspectives. Focus is not just a showcase, but a curatorial responsibility to highlight works that propose ideas, engage cultural complexity with clarity, and offer more than aesthetics.
Featured projects
Solida 012
Sotiris Lazou Design Studio for al2
Soda Tables
Yiannis Ghikas for Miniforms
NOOS Electric Scooter
Matadog Design for ECOSHIFT
The Slot House in Tinos
Katerina Valmasaki Architects
Neema Maison Finikia Santorini
Urban Soul Project
Frabala
So Far Studio
Boubas Butcher Shop
KLab Architecture
Moden Café
Georgios Apostolopoulos Architects
Troias Apartment
threshold
Aigli Zappeiou
Neiheiser Argyros
Southwand House
K-Studio
Nomads
StudioLav
Selection
Selection
Editorial: Embracing Context and Soul
Across architecture and design, this selection from Greece listens to place and answers with clarity. In cities and on islands, the work respects what already exists and adds only what helps it live today. Materials and craft lead the conversation, while technology opens new options. The shared tone is curious, precise, and human.
The selection shows exceptional sensitivity to the built and natural environment, featuring careful renovations in cities, especially Athens, and new works on islands like Santorini with its iconic white and blue buildings. Architects listen deeply to their contexts, integrating modern life with respect and making novelty inseparable from the local environment. Design projects, varied in typology but united in spirit, combine playfulness with precision, where material knowledge meets geometry and technology supports craft. From glass tables that draw light to city scooters shaped for clean movement, this selection embodies curiosity and clarity.
Blažka & Tanja,
Editors
—
Each BIG SEE Focus presents a curated selection of the best recent architectural and design projects from a selected country, completed or launched in the past year. This selection reveals depth of thinking, sensitivity to context, and the capacity to shift perspectives. Focus is not just a showcase, but a curatorial responsibility to highlight works that propose ideas, engage cultural complexity with clarity, and offer more than aesthetics.
Editors
Blažka Drnovšek,
Curator & Editor
for Product Design
Tanja Završki,
Curator & Editor
for Architecture
M: +386 64 293 441
E: tanja@bigsee.eu