Seven Santorini island retreats by Kapsimalis Architects
From converted caves to underground pools, here are seven hotels and houses on the Greek island of Santorini designed by local studio Kapsimalis Architects. More
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Kapsimalis Architects builds imposing summer house in Santorini
House in Pyrgos is a fortress-style holiday home covered with earth-toned plaster built by Kapsimalis Architects on the Greek island of Santorini. More
Wooden Cave hotel suite in Greece is made from over 1,000 pieces of hand-cut spruce
Sinuous spruce-wood walls wind around this cosy cave-like suite that Tenon Architecture has created for a resort hotel in southern Greece. More
K-studio creates stone holiday home on Mykonos overlooking the Aegean Sea
Stone and whitewashed walls surround a holiday home on the Greek island of Mykonos designed by K-studio, which has a tree poking through its shady wooden pergolas. More
Greece plans floating sea barrier to keep out refugees
Greece has been criticised for plans to erect a floating barrier of nets on the border with Turkey in the Aegean Sea to deter people crossing by boat. More
Hotel on the Santorini coast has rooms in white-painted caves
Greek studio Kapsimalis Architects has turned a cluster of former homes, barns and cellars on the island of Santorini into a hotel with rooms in caves. More
Kapsimalis Architects converts caves for summer houses on Greek island
The vaulted forms and underground caves of an old house on the Greek island of Santorini have been converted into a holiday home complex by Kapsimalis Architects. More
DecaArchitecture carves holistic spa into Greek mountain
This cavernous 3,000-square-metre spa by DecaArchitecture with Natalia Efraimoglou & Partners is located within a building that is carved into the base of a mountain in Mystras, Greece. More
Summer Villa by Kapsimalis Architects plays on traditional Greek whitewashed houses
The white, blocky form of this holiday villa by Kapsimalis Architects is intended to be a "contemporary translation" of the chalky houses seen around Santorini, Greece. More
Antony Gormley installs iron figures among ancient ruins on the Greek island of Delos
Artist Antony Gormley has unveiled Sight, an exhibition of 29 of his humanoid sculptures on the Greek island of Delos in the Aegean sea. More
Savvas Laz transforms Styrofoam packaging into Trashformers chair
Greek designer Savvas Laz used pieces of Styrofoam packaging discarded in skips to create this sculptural chair that aims to raise awareness of packaging waste. More
AK-A creates two-tone interiors for Lollo's Atene restaurant in Athens
Glossy green paint coats the bottom half of this bright white restaurant in Athens, which design studio AK-A has finished with deep red accents. More
Red tones feature throughout Lofos cocktail bar in Greece
Ark4Lab of Architecture has used an assortment of red tones and clashing materials to create a "mosaic" of spaces inside this bar in northern Greece. More
Print Your City turns recycled food containers into street furniture
The residents of Thessaloniki, Greece, can now recycle their plastic waste into 3D printed furniture for the city, using a new laboratory set up by Rotterdam studio The New Raw. More
Voids and openings provide views and sea breezes at Patio House by OOAK
This concrete holiday home on Greek island Karpathos cantilevers over a rocky cliff and features an open-air dining area that looks out across the Aegean Sea. More
K-studio's Perianth Hotel infuses neo-modernism into Athens
Architecture firm K-Studio has designed a neo-modernist interior for this boutique hotel in its hometown of Athens, using local artworks and furnishings. More
En Route Architects perches linear concrete house on Greek island hillside
The rear of this holiday home on the Greek island of Kea is partially embedded in a steep hillside, while the front is entirely lined with full-height windows that look out towards the Aegean Sea. More
Greek landscape informs natural-toned suites of the Olea Hotel
Shreds of rattan, chutes of bamboo and offcuts of wood have been used throughout this hotel in Zante, designed by Block722 Architects to blend into the Grecian landscape. More
Kapsimalis Architects refurbishes Santorini cave house
Greek studio Kapsimalis Architects updated a sequence of cave-like subterranean spaces and vaulted rooms in this holiday home on the island of Santorini. More
Waterfront Nikis Apartment features walls in shades of pink, blue and green
Colour-blocked walls painted in flamingo pink, azure blue and pastel green define the different areas of this seaside apartment in Greece, by architect Stamatios Giannikis. More