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KLab architecture

Profile of KLab architecture, headquartered in Greece. Three projects submitted by KLab architecture have been published on Architecture News Plus (ANP).

: Konstantinos Labrinopoulos – © KLab architecture

Principal

Konstantinos Labrinopoulos

Brief description

KLAB architecture (kinetic lab of architecture), formerly known as KLMF architects, was founded in 2001 by Konstantinos Labrinopoulos. It is an international group of highly qualified and motivated architects who seek opportunities for creating unique and intriguing urban events. Since the language of Architecture travels across borders, this multicultural team invests on its extremely rich diversity of knowledge, from the largest planning scale to the smallest technical details. Such practice is at the forefront of contemporary international architectural design.

KLAB architecture finds inspiration in the interconnection and juxtaposition of everyday things in life. It combines the ephemeral with the diachronic, the classic with the modern, natural with artificial, large and small scales, conventional and experimental materials.

The aspiration of KLAB architecture architects has always been: create as artists and to materialize as scientists. Freedom of inspiration, originality in design and strict project implementation are the principles that drive the office’s continuous development. Everyday research is an essential ingredient for high-quality innovative and functional design. Every client is unique and poses a new and interesting challenge for the office members, who engage with him in an active dialogue at every stage of the building process. Every project is tailor-made according to the requirements and aspirations of the clients.

KLAB architecture aims for high-quality architecture, one that broadens the mind and expands architecture’s potential through unique approaches.

KLAB architecture is the Greek architectural firm selected by the EAA, the European Architects’ Alliance, as its Greek member. It has worked on a number of important collaborative projects with practices in the UK, France and the US. Moreover, the work of KLAB architecture has been widely published in architectural magazines and books, both in Greece and internationally. Notably, in August 2008 KLAB architecture achieved international recognition as it was selected by Wallpaper magazine in its 2008 Design Directory as one of the fifty most upcoming architectural firms of the world.

With a considerable number of highly successful projects in Greece and in South East Europe, KLAB architecture is today strongly positioned to confront any architectural challenge with its unique attitude to design.

Konstantinos Labrinopoulos: was born in 1970 in Athens, Greece. A graduate of the School of Αrchitecture, National Technical University of Athens (1994). He continued his studies in the United States and in 1996 he received his Master III degree in Advanced Architectural Design from the Southern California Institute of Architecture, Los Angeles. After working freelance from 1998 to 2001 he created Klmf architects in collaboration with the architect Miltos Farmakis. In 2007, when the collaboration ended, the firm was renamed KLAB architecture. In 2006 he was one of the co-founders of the movement ‹Athens 9› which culminated in an important workshop in the University of Patras. In 2007 he participated, by invitation, in the 5th biennale of Young Greek Architects. He has given lectures in the University of Timisoara and the University of Bucarest (Roumania) and has presented papers in design conferences in Greece and Cyprus.

Published projects

: Placebo Pharmacy by KLab architecture The design process for this large (600m2) supralocal pharmacy forced us to shift our viewpoint and come up with a virtual building — a placebo pharmacy. The...

: Wide Open Villa by KLab architecture The monolithic volume is shaped by two parameters: the street, whose curve it follows, and the private garden, which imparts a planar quality to the side in...

: Guru Bar by KLab architecture Guru Bar was one of the first bars to open in the central area of Psiri in Athens at a time when the neighbourhood was beginning to be transformed into a...