The Central Council of Greece’s Contemporary Monuments decided earlier this week to approve an architectural team’s plan to renovate the historic Modiano Market in Thessaloniki, greekreporter.com notes.
According to Morpho Papanikolaou, one of the architects who designed the project, the construction will require approximately one year. The new face of Modiano is expected to see light most likely around the middle of the year 2020.
Modiano Market is a historic market in the city center of Thessaloniki. It was built in the 1920s by the acclaimed architect Eli Modiano, a member of the prominent Italian-Jewish Modiano family of Thessaloniki.
The architectural team points out that the plan is to combine the characteristics of the market as it was in the 1920s with modern-day architectural styles.
The total market area is protected by the Greek state, so the architects are not allowed to, and do not intend to, change the use of the building or its original style.
Their aim is to get rid of all the smaller extensions which market holders have added over the past several decades. These stalls and constructions are actually illegal and have also aesthetically ruined the market.
Additional structural support will also be added to the almost 100-year-old building, which is vitally significant for the future safety of customers visiting the market.
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