RESTORATION OF LISTED TWO-STOREY BUILDING "MARAGOPOULOS WAREHOUSES"

PROPRIETOR: FORTUNE

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: The company undertook the restoration of the listed building located on St.Andreas Str. in the city of Patras.

The building is known as “Maragopoulos Warehouses” and extends up to 1,125m2. The original design of the facades embodies an exceptional eclectic fragment of mid-war industrial architecture, through which aesthetic art deco features are easily noted. The building sheltered all professional activities of Vassilis Maragopoulos, which started in 1893, when the “Arena” was merely a small commercial store.

Triaina S.A. restored the original facades and the timber frame of the window openings as well as the roof to their original state, reinforced the load-bearing brickwork, and reconstructed all internal woodworks. The challenge, though, was the extension of the building’s body into the ground, to create from scratch basement storing space under the existing frame of the building.