Koukaki · Athens
AthensWas Design Hotel.
The street below the Acropolis. Twenty-one rooms.
21 rooms on Dionysiou Areopagitou, the pedestrian street below the Acropolis. A 2015 design hotel by Stavros Papagiannis, scored to the swinging Sixties of Athens.
"Dionysiou Areopagitou. The pedestrian street below the Acropolis. The whole city walks past every morning."
Dionysiou Areopagitou is the pedestrian artery below the Acropolis — the marble path runners take at dawn and lovers take at dusk. Number 5 is AthensWas.
Twenty-one rooms over six floors, opened 2015 by Errika Benakopoulou and the designer Stavros Papagiannis. The brief was unusual for Athens — skip the ancient, skip the white-cube modern, build a love letter to the 1960s instead. The decade when Athens still had nightlife in the centre and the architects were Karantinos and Konstantinidis. Greek marble underfoot, walnut on the walls, orange and royal blue in flashes, vintage furniture handled like quotations.
SENSE on the rooftop. Greek kitchen, lighter hand, the Parthenon at eye level. No pool — this is the historic centre, no one gets a pool. A small fitness room. The kind of hotel where breakfast on the marble balcony is the morning, and a glass on the roof at sunset is the evening.
Book a Superior — the marble balconies on the upper floors look straight at the Parthenon. Six minutes' walk to the entrance. Plan the morning early.
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