ISSUE 140 – SNFCC

Overview

In the nodal, but discreetly understated, reception area of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, which links the ‘Agora’ with the car park and the Library with the ‘Beacon’, there is a small plaque of neutral plexiglass with the following inscription: 
‘Τhe Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC) is a gift from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) to Greece and its people. 

The SNFCC manifests SNF’s continuous commitment to Greece and its future,  is an embodiment of excellence, vision, hope, collaboration and determination,  and fulfills the wishes of the SNF’s founder, Stavros Niarchos, to support his motherland’. 

This is followed by the impressive chronicle of the realisation of this magnificent project, with its four stages: the announcement of the benefaction in 2006, the design period, 2007-2011, the construction period, 2012-2016, and the commencement of operations in 2017, together with the ‘special thanks’ to the architects of the Renzo Piano Building Workshop and BETAPLAN, the landscape architects of the Deborah Nevins and Elli Pangalou practices, the Salini Impregilo and TERNA construction companies, and its project managers, Faithful+Gould – those principally responsible for bringing the project to fruition. 

Please find the full text in the printed version.