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Megaron Mousikis Athinon – Opera House: Music Library marble floor – Photographs of mock-up

01/01/2001

Mock-up

Three photographs of the marble tile mock-up, made to size out of more than 100 white and green pieces of Greek marble.

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Construction Innovation 1 Items

Megaron Mousikis Athinon - Opera House: Multi-colored marble floors, consisting of various sizes and different color marble pieces in geometric and ornamental patterns 2001

Work of Art for Project, Prefabricated Marble Floor

Prefabrication of marble floors for the concourse areas of about 8.000 m2, in sections of about two feet by four feet, assembled on a fiberglass matt, with the marble pieces being glued with epoxy to the mat. Individual pieces were ...

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Projects 1 Items

Megaron Mousikis Athinon - Opera House 2001

Athens, Greece

Civic, Designed , Not built

In 2002 Megaron Mousikis Athinon was the largest Concert Hall in Athens and was in the process of being extended further by a vast extension, including underground opera house, conference center, library and so on. Christopher Alexander was approached by ...

Models & Mock-ups 1 Items

Megaron Mousikis Athinon - Opera House: Multi-colored marble floors; mock-up of marble tile 01/01/2001

Construction Innovation, Mock-up

A small piece of a floor in black, white and green marble; a test tile, intended for the Music Library floor, forming the geometric floor pattern, a mosaic of one hundred pieces, cut using a precision water jet cutter.

Photographs 1 Items

Megaron Mousikis Athinon - Opera House: Photographs of project models 2 2) View from interior balcony 01/01/2001

Project, Model

Two views of the fully developed and colored model of the Music Library interior, including figures of people as well.