Architecture in Athens

Renzo Piano’s National Library and Opera under a vast solar canopy, set in a sloping park with a long canal. Climb to the Lighthouse for the sea view.

Contemporary Greek and international art in the converted Fix brewery on Syngrou Avenue.

A cultural centre for theatre, dance and talks, behind a façade of horizontal marble strips that glows at night.

The Benaki’s large modern annex for changing exhibitions on art, design and architecture.

Dimitris Pikionis’s 1950s stone paths up the Acropolis and Filopappou hills, laid from salvaged marble. A lesson in landscape and material.

The Academy, University and National Library, three neoclassical buildings in a row on Panepistimiou by the Hansen brothers.