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Name: The Hilton Hotel
City: Athens
Country: Greece
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Height // architectural: 65 m
Floors // above ground: 14
Full Renovation Project: 2003 with continues improvements
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Construction type: High-rise building
Structural material: concrete
Facade color: white
Architectural style: modernism
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Main usages: Luxury hotel // Icon within the Hilton Worldwide chain
Side usages: Restaurants, Shops, Bars, Parking
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Features and Amenities include:
--- Observation deck on roof
--- Observation floor is available
--- One of the city's most famous buildings
--- Public parking is available
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Facts include:
--- After an extensive renovation, the hotel resumed its operations in the beginning of 2003. During the renovation works, the hotel was completely refurbished and was added a new 7-storey northern wing with an addditional 74 rooms and suites, thus rising the total of available rooms to 517.
--- The Hilton Athens faces the Acropolis, and is situated on one of the city's most fashionable avenues.
--- The hotel was chosen to be the main accomodation site for the members of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) during the Athens 2004 Summer Olympic Games.
--- Practically the first highrise completed in Athens (1963) but never gained the title of the first skyscraper of the city which, in the eyes of the Athenians goes to the Athens Tower 1 (1971).
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Architect // Architects: Alexandros Tombazis and Associates Architects Ltd, AETER Harry Bougadellis and Associates Architects SA
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Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable.
--- Charles Baudelaire
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