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Apollo still thy long, long summer gilds, Still in his beam Mendeli's marbles glare

Lord Byron · Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

A circular stone-walled terrace and small round pool cut into a bare brown hillside, a paved path zigzagging up the slope above it, the coastline and a white village in the distance

Olen, seven suites sunk into a cliff at Poseidonia on Syros

Ateno Architecture Studio stepped the house down a steep slope in three parts, the lowest of them a subterranean guesthouse beside the water, and it was unveiled on 25 February 2026

25 February 2026

Long glazed dining room with white-clothed tables, cane-backed chairs and a pleated grey fabric ceiling, tall black-framed windows down one side and a raised seating section beyond

GastronomyAthens

Atelier Papaioannou left the arcade for a house in Neo Psychiko

8 January 2026

A yellow and dark blue travel lift standing empty on the concrete hardstanding of the yard, orange and blue lifting strops hanging from its beam, with the container cranes of Piraeus behind and two white motor yachts ashore to the right.

MaritimeAthens

GY Shipyard, the refit yard Golden Yachts built for itself

31 July 2025

Cave houses stepped up a slope in cream, pale blue and terracotta render, with dry stone retaining walls between the terraces and rounded barrel roofs above the shuttered windows.

EstatesSantorini

A metal thread through the cave houses of Finikia

3 July 2025

An aerial view at sunset of white cubic buildings and a curved pool stepping down a green hillside above the sea, with a low sun on the water

EstatesSifnos

Inside Stamna Sifnos, a house built from its own island

20 May 2025

A rooftop terrace with pale sofas and a black-pebble fire bed above the Santorini caldera, the sun setting over the volcanic islets and the open water beyond

EstatesSantorini

A black-basalt house above the Imerovigli caldera

27 January 2025