“The first thing you notice when walking through Thessaloniki is that it needs some kind of editing,” recalls architect Georgios Apostolopoulos, referring to his first impression of the city during his student years.
“We were still in our first years of university when the New Beach of Nikiforidis-Cuomo was delivered, we also experienced the intensity of the discussion around the regeneration of Eleftherias Square, while there was always the discussion about the metro,” adds Antonis Tasoulis, referring to an award-winning urban regeneration project of Thessaloniki’s waterfront designed by architects Prodromos Nikiforidis and Bernard Cuomo, and listing a series of interventions that have improved the image of the city, not always without reactions.
The proposal of their Athens-based architecture firm Apostolopoulos Tasoulis, titled “Armosi” (Joint), is the one that unanimously took first place in the competition of ideas for the unification of archaeological sites and monuments of Thessaloniki, announced by Anaplassis SA in December 2025. The project aims to create a coherent network of monuments, which will seamlessly integrate the city’s rich cultural heritage into its modern urban landscape.
