Every city is a collection of neighborhoods, big or small, central or suburban. Each neighborhood carries its own history—its own life lived under the city’s shadow. With its highs and lows, that life shapes the neighborhood’s character and defines its residents’ day-to-day experience.

It’s a great challenge for every urban developer, architect, or constructor to contribute to forming, developing, or rejuvenating an urban neighborhood through a simple plan, intervention, or building.

For everyone at EPIKYKLOS, it’s an extra challenge and a great responsibility to contribute to reconnecting a neighborhood with the city and the greater social environment. And to do it by renewing its residents’ lived experience and revitalizing the relationships within the community encompassing each of our buildings.

The URBAND example

Kipseli is a central Athenian neighborhood that can be perceived as deeply “hurt” by the vast changes the urban fabric has undergone these last decades. Nevertheless, it maintains much of its old charm and has recently entered a gentle recovery period, especially across its more central parts.

There, at the corner of Pindou and Kythnou Streets, we chose to create an apartment complex that changes the people’s lived experience and upgrades the neighborhood’s look and feel in a manner that respects its character and residents.