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Athens News Agency: News in English, 09-07-12
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[01] Court blocks demolition of buildings near New Acropolis Museum
[01] Court blocks demolition of buildings near New Acropolis Museum
Demolition orders for two listed buildings at numbers 17 and 19 on
Dionysiou Areopagitou Street in Athens, near the New Acropolis Museum,
have been cancelled by the Council of State, Greece's supreme
administrative court. This accepted a petition by local residents that
the two buildings remain standing and found that a culture ministry
decision to remove them from a list of cultural heritage monuments was
not legally sound.
The building at Dionysiou Areopagitou 17 was a noted 1930s example of
Art Deco that has been protected by a preservation order since 1978 and
as a work of art since 1988. That at number 19 is a prime example of
the neoclassical architecture of the late 19th and early 20th centuries
in Greece. The management of the museum had asked for their demolition
because they border on the museum and partially obstruct the view from
the museum to the Acropolis.
A petition by the Civil Society Monumenta for the protection of
turn-of-the-century buildings on the corner of Makrygiannis 10 and
Hatzichristou 21 was rejected by the court, however. The court approved
demolition orders for these buildings issued by the Athens municipality
as legally justified.
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