Her first major international distinction received the National Galleryfor its new design. The architectural team “George Parmenidis, Christine Longpepe, Ifigenia Marie” was honored with the Gold Award “A ‘Design Award” in the category of Interior Designs and Exhibitions (Golden A’ Design Award Winner for Interior Space and Exhibition Design Category in 2022)», Which had undertaken the study and supervision of the museographic design of the National Gallery. The design team has extensive experience in more than 50 similar studies and constructions of exhibitions and art exhibition spaces.
The A ‘Design Award is an international design award, which was instituted for the international recognition and promotion of good design in the fields of industrial design, art and architecture. The competition was founded in 2009 by OMC Design Studios. On its 10th anniversary in 2019, the A ‘Design Award & Competition SRL was founded in Como, Italy, as a separate organization under the auspices of BEDA, The Bureau of European Design Associations.
At the National Gallery The exhibition spaces are designed like an open-air promenade. The interior is designed as a series of transitional spaces for information with wood paneling, and white showrooms with specially designed false ceilings for each exhibition function. By controlling the directions of the gaze, the depth of view in the halls and towards the city, the general lighting in relation to the external light, and subordinating the materials and the technical details for the highlighting of the works of art, the space symbolically gives the feeling of free movement. and selection.
The new design of the National Gallery, which was integrated into the urban environment of Athens, in addition to the creation of a building corresponding to the important museums of major European capitals, soon became a landmark for the city.
In its first year of operation welcomed tens of thousands of visitors in its new, upgraded spaceshosted two periodical exhibitions (“In 1821 in painting. Greece demands its historic Gallery” and “In search of immortality. The art of portrait in the Louvre collections”), along with the approximately 1,000 works on display from the permanent collection to three floors and 20,760 square meters of space.
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