Profile

PILA is an international architecture studio based in Athens and New York that creates environments for culture, working, and living around the world. They believe in architecture’s enduring character to create meaningful connections between people and their environment as a counterpoint to the speed of contemporary living. By reimagining existing ideas around program and function, physical spaces can offer new ways of experiencing the world.

PILA builds lasting spaces that adapt to future transformation, while considering today’s opportunities and constraints. Drawing upon material and immaterial contexts, the studio approaches the unique parameters of each project with openness and curiosity. Through a highly collaborative and iterative process, they translate each project’s opportunities and constraints into clear design directions that are sensitive to client and contextual needs.

PILA’s key projects include the multi award-winning Piraeus Tower, a new academic building for Anatolia American University, Limassol East, a mixed use masterplan in Cyprus, Site Verrier, a cultural center in France, MKNO, an urban regeneration plan in Bobigny, Paris, the rejuvenation of a prominent waterfront site in Athens and various residential projects in Athens and the Greek islands.