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Fix Beer @ Myconian Avaton

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Via Foodspotting

[adeater]

Fix 🇨🇾 Cyprus | 1955

[elladastinkardiamou]

The troubled tale of a sleeping giant

The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens

The troubled history of a key masterwork of one Greece’s most significant post-war modernist architects, Takis Zenetos’ FIX brewery building in Athens, might just be about to have a happy ending. Due to open as the new National Museum of Contemporary Art in March next year, Cristina Ampatzidou traces a tortuous road of disuse, mutilation, delays and lawsuits that have dogged the life of this huge structure.

The FIX beer brewery was established in Athens in 1863 and 30 years later it moved to an area south of the Acropolis, which at that point was outside the historical centre and largely not as yet built-up. The factory thrived at that location for more than 60 years, until the 1950s when the Fix family, who owned it, decided to construct new premises and appointed Takis Zenetos to design them.

Zenetos (1926 – 1977) is a very distinctive architect of post-war Greek modernism. Known for the many housing projects he completed, as well as several important industrial buildings, his work is not characterised by a coherent visual language but by meticulous attention to functionality, flexibility and clarity of construction – as well as daring form. Zenetos was also a visionary urban planner. His ideas culminated in his speculative avant-garde Electronic Urbanism project which he developed to show how technology, beyond just the architecture, could address the urban problems of a megalopolis, by using information technologies to create new frameworks of thinking: through tele-education, tele-work and tele-communications.

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inter alia: The "Dangers" of Being the Best Friend and Preferred Travel Buddy of Obscura

inter alia: The “Dangers” of Being the Best Friend and Preferred Travel Buddy of Obscura

Tweeted from the Greek Isles a few weeks ago.

I saw this Twitter pic of Graham McTavish enjoying a Fix Beer somewhere in the Greek Islands that led me into a pleasant day dream of he and Richard Armitage climbing caldera on Santorini or something of the like.  I like the idea of Richard Armitage have a great time traveling with a friend.  I have very fond memories of tromping all over Greece with…

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