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Buildings and halls in Technopolis

 


Technopolis
Halls and Buildings

 


The Andreas Empirikos Hall – Maria Callas MuseumThe Andreas Empirikos Hall – Maria Callas Museum

In the building, where parts of the imposing machines and numerous unique tools were kept, the Maria Callas Museum is currently being hosted. Personal objects, letters and photographs of one of the biggest opera diva’s of the 20the century, are displayed.


The Agelos Sikelianos HallThe Agelos Sikelianos Hall

In the most imposing container, the gas produced was measured and stored before distribution for use. It now gives home to Technopolis’ administrative services. The natural lighting and view from the hall, make it an ideal place to host visual art exhibitions.


The Yannis Ritsos Hall The Yannis Ritsos Hall - Athens 9.84 radio station and amphitheater

The second gas container hosts the municipal radio station Athens 9.84, founded in May 1987, which introduced free radio transmission to the country. Its amphitheater has a capacity of 250 people and is suitable for theatrical shows and concerts, speeches, seminars, book presentations etc. The same hall also hosts the Radio Museum with rare exhibits from the history of sound technology, during its one hundred years of life.

A second radio station, Athens International Radio 104,4 FM, also operates here. It presents news on a 24-hour basis for foreigners in the city in English, French, German, Spanish, Polish, Russian, Filipino (Tagalog), Bulgarian and Albanian. The program in English is in collaboration with the BBC World Service, in French with Radio France Internationale and in German with the Deutsche Welle.


The Takis Papatsonis HallThe Takis Papatsonis Hall

The room with the "ovens", perhaps the most characteristic room, still maintains today the atmosphere and aesthetics of the old factory. There, coal was transported from the courtyard and through combustion, gas was separated from its by-products (coke, tar, pitch, bitumen). This hall is ideal for figurative art exhibitions as well as for alternative theatrical and musical shows.


The Konstantinos Kavafis HallThe Konstantinos Kavafis Hall

In this room, German ovens had been installed, to achieve better output and accelerate the process of coal combustion. This modern industrial space is now used for figurative art exhibitions, children's events as well as music shows.


The Kostis Palamas HallThe Kostis Palamas Hall

This area was the so-called purgatory, where the gas, having passed through the refrigeration process, was channeled through pipes into the presses so as to undergo the last phase of the cleaning process. This general purpose room that functions on two levels, is an ideal place for figurative art exhibitions as well as for hosting seminars, chamber music concerts, conferences, projections and press conferences.


Building D12 Building D12

The biggest hall in Technopolis, which used to be the factory's maintenance and repairs building, nowadays it is used to host exhibitions, conferences etc. It has a surface of 753 m², a capacity of 800 people and excellent acoustics.


Furthermore there are the courtyard, toilets, bookstore, coffee bar, a smaller administration building, a building of which the use still has to be defined and the third gas container that will be reconstructed in the near future.

  

 
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