• MAKRIDIS ASSOCIATES has been announced the winner of the architectural competition for the “Master Plan for the Revitalization of Giannitsa city Center” Ministry for the Environment Physical Planning and Public works

• MAKRIDIS ASSOCIATES has been announced the winner of the architectural competition for the new ‘Hotel Redevelopment Amilia Mare – Paradise Village’ in Rhodes Greece. HIG Capital
  

• The Project “Master Plan for the Revitalization of Gounari Axes and Fanarioton Square” was Longlisted in Dezeen Awards
  

• MAKRIDIS ASSOCIATES in collaboration with DELOITTE has been announced by WORLD BANK the winner of the competition “Waterfront Redevelopment Strategy for Thessaloniki”

• MAKRIDIS ASSOCIATES has been announced the winner of the architectural competition for the new ‘ACT Student Center’. 

• MAKRIDIS ASSOCIATES was awarded to design the “Hotel Mega Trends” pavillion that was presented as the central theme at the XENIA Exhibition

• OPEN HOUSE 2018. Participation of MAKRIDIS ASSOCIATES with the project:  “MUSEUM OF JEWISH PRESENCE – RENOVATION OF A LISTED BUILDING”. OPEN HOUSE is a successful world wide, non-profit organisation that raises public awareness and appreciation for the cities’ building design and architecture. Organiser: TECHNICAL CHAMBER OF GREECE, Thessaloniki, October 2013

• In 2017, MAKRIDIS ASSOCIATES was awarded to design the Urban Lake front of the city of Ioannina

• MAKRIDIS ASSOCIATES is proud to participate at TEDx UniversityofMacedonia. Architect Fotis Vasilakis
  presented the workshop “Prototyping – Personal 3d printing”

• MAKRIDIS ASSOCIATES was awarded to design a proposal for a 2nd Generation Sustainable Bus Lane

• In 2016, MAKRIDIS ASSOCIATES was awarded to represent Greek Architecture in the exhibition: “Sustainable Living Spaces in the EU” at Sejong Centre for Performing Arts in Seoul and at Busan Station Plaza in Busan, Korea. The exhibition aims at highlighting sustainable buildings and green design techniques in the European Union countries.

• MAKRIDIS ASSOCIATES was awarded to design the “Zero Hotel” project that was presented as the central theme at the HOTELIA Exhibition

• MAKRIDIS ASSOCIATES was among 5 international Architecture Firms selected for an invited International Competition by “GN – Groupe Nduom” to design a Mixed use Skycraper in Accra, Ghana

• MAKRIDIS ASSOCIATES was awarded to Design the New Big Bang School

• Our hospitality project “Stoa Experiment” received a distinction during the award ceremony “Tourism Awards 2015” which took place at the Athens Megaron

• The project “EXTENTION AND UPGRADING OF INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE”, was among the eleven top rated projects in the category “best researches of years 2010-2014” Domes Architecture Prizes 2015, March 2015

• Sylvia Georgiadou participated as an instructor in the program Architectural Association Visiting School Thessaloniki 2015, in collaboration with the School of Architecture of Aristotele University of Thessaloniki, November 2015

• Eleanna Makridou, Sylvia Georgiadou and Thodoris Makridis participated in the exhibition Young Architects’ Biennale with the project “Container House”. The project was ranked among the most notable young architects’ projects for this period and was presented in the exhibition at Benaki Museum and at Aristotele University of Thessaloniki, September 2015

• Lecture by Thodoris Makridis at the conference “THE FUTURE OF HOTEL & RESTAURANT DESIGN” under the topic “REDEFINING HOSPITALITY SYSTEMS” organised by HELEXPO and INTERIORS FROM GREECE

• OPEN HOUSE 2014, Participation of MAKRIDIS ASSOCIATES with the projects: MUSEUM OF JEWISH PRESENCE IN THESSALONIKI – MACEDONIA HALL, ANATOLIA COLLEGE – BISSEL LIBRARY, AMERICAN COLLEGE OF THESSALONIKI, CLOCHARD BAR – RESTAURANT. OPEN HOUSE is a successful world wide, non-profit organisation that raises public awareness and appreciation for the cities’ building design and architecture. Organiser: TECHNICAL CHAMBER OF GREECE, Thessaloniki, November 2014

• The project “REDESIGNING OF THE SIGNAGE OF MEDITERRANEAN COSMOS COMMERICAL AND LEISURE SHOPPING CENTER”, in collaboration with Beetroot Design Group, received an award in the environmental graphics category by EBGE (Greek Graphic Design Awards)

• Selection of MAKRIDIS ASSOCIATES’ s proposal for the project “INNOVATIVE INSTALLATION DESIGN – LOVEMARK”, the first crowd funded love monument, after a closed-entry architectural competition.

• OPEN HOUSE 2013. Participation of MAKRIDIS ASSOCIATES with the projects: ALIKI PERROTI STUDENT RESIDENCE, PERROTIS COLLEGE, AMERICAN FARM SCHOOL” – MUSEUM OF JEWISH PRESENCE IN THESSALONIKI – RENOVATION OF A LISTED BUILDING. OPEN HOUSE is a successful world wide, non-profit organisation that raises public awareness and appreciation for the cities’ building design and architecture. Organiser: TECHNICAL CHAMBER OF GREECE, Thessaloniki, October 2013

• Petros Makridis was elected as a member of the first Board of Directors of SEPAK at the first General Assembly and first Elections of the Association at the Theater Hall of Athens College.

• Participation of MAKRIDIS ASSOCIATES office in the action “ΘΕΣΣΑΛΟΝΙΚΗ ΑΛΛΙΩΣ” of Parallaxi magazine with the project “A SELF-MANANGED GARDEN AT LAGKADA STREET”.

• Participation of MAKRIDIS ASSOCIATES office at the workshop “CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE: SUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS AND EVALUATION OF FUTURE ARCHITECTURAL ACTIVITY” at the event hall of Deputy Mayoralty of Urban Thessaloniki Environment, as part of the events during World Environment Day.

• MAKRIDIS ASSOCIATES was a founding member of the ASSOCIATION of COMPANIES for QUALITY and DEVELOPMENT of STRUCTURES (SEPAK) , a new association of companies, scientists, and entrepreneurs representing all sectors and phases of the construction industry. Petros Makridis was a member of the Interim Board of Directors.

• Participation with 7 projects at the exhibition “THESSALONIKI 100+. ARCHITECTURE & THE CITY: MODERNIZATION AND ADAPTATION” at the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art.

• The project “MODIFICATION OF THE INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX OF GRAIN MILL ALLATINI INTO A DWELLING COMPLEX” was selected to be presented at the ARCHITECTURAL EXHIBITION during THE CONFERENCE “INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE: REVIVAL AND SUSTAINABILITY”
 Organizer: THE INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR THE CONSERVATION OF INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE – GREEK SECTION (TICCIH), HELLENIC INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTURE (ΕΙΑ), ARCHITECTURAL SCHOOL OF THE NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS, ΤECHNICAL CHAMBER OF GREECE & NATIONAL BANK OF GREECE –CYPRUS SECTION, BENAKI MUSEUM, Athens, June 2013

• ARCHITECTURAL EXHIBITION “THESSALONIKI 1912–2012: THE ARCHITECTURE OF A CENTURY“

Participation of MAKRIDIS ASSOCIATES with the projects: “ALIKI PERROTI STUDENT RESIDENCE, PERROTIS COLLEGE, AMERICAN FARM SCHOOL” – “MORPHOLOGICAL, AESTHETIC AND ENERGY UPGRADING OF 1st GYMNASIUM CLASSROM BUILDINGS – ANATOLIA COLLEGE” – “UPGRADING OF PAVILION 6, THESSALONIKI’S INTERNATIONAL FAIR” – “CLASSROOM BUILDING OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF THESSALONIKI” – “CONVERSION OF A TOBACCO WAREHOUSE INTO A LUXURY HOTEL ‘LES LAZARISTES’ ” – “MACEDONIA – THRACE BANK (PIREOS BANK) – OFFICE BUILDING”
 – “DESIGN OF THE CITY HALL PLAZA – ALKAZAR MONUMENT” – “NINE-STOREY APARTMENT BUILDING AT THE NEW SEA FRONT” – “ΕUROTECH CENTER FOR MATERIALS AND TECHNOLOGY”
, Curator: VASILIS KOLONAS. Organiser: MACEDONIAN MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART,

Thessaloniki, February 2013

• Participation of MAKRIDIS ASSOCIATES at the exhibition “THESSALONIKI 1912 – 2012: THE ARCHITECTURE OF A CENTURY” with 7 projects at Benak Museum.

• Publication of the project “ALIKI PERROTI STUDENT RESIDENCE”, at the American Farm School of Thessaloniki at the journal Architectural Topics – Architecture in Greece 2012

• Participation of MAKRIDIS ASSOCIATES at the international conference “URBAN INNOVATION + GREEN DESIGN“ with organizing the workshop “ENTER_TIRE_MENT” in the context of ECOWEEK 2012 in Thessaloniki. ALIKI PERROTI STUDENT RESIDENCE, PERROTIS COLLEGE, AMERICAN FARM SCHOOL” – MUSEUM OF JEWISH PRESENCE IN THESSALONIKI – RENOVATION OF A LISTED BUILDING

• OPEN HOUSE 2012. Participation of MAKRIDIS ASSOCIATES office with the projects: ALIKI PERROTI STUDENT RESIDENCE, PERROTIS COLLEGE, AMERICAN FARM SCHOOL” – MUSEUM OF JEWISH PRESENCE IN THESSALONIKI – RENOVATION OF A LISTED BUILDING
- ALIKI PERROTI STUDENT RESIDENCE. OPEN HOUSE is a successful world wide, non-profit organisation that raises public awareness and appreciation for the cities’ building design and architecture. Organiser: TECHNICAL CHAMBER OF GREECE, Thessaloniki, November 2012

• Commission after selection, of the study “CONFIGURATION OF CONFERENCE CENTER AT THE BLACK SEA TRADE & DEVELOPMENT BANK BUILDING” at Mouzaki Hall.

• Commission after selection, of the study “INTERIOR LAYOUT, DESIGN, AND EQUIPMENT OF 2^ND LEVEL OF BLACK SEA TRADE & DEVELOPMENT BANK BUILDING” at Mouzaki Hall.

• Presentation at SKAI TV channel news, in EcoNews of the “ALIKI PERROTI STUDENT RESIDENCE” of MAKRIDIS ASSOCIATES, with interviews of Petros Makridis and Eleanna Makridou, the project that was honored with the first prize of sustainable building in Greece in the residential category of the [B]green architectural competition.

• MAKRIDIS ASSOCIATES was awarded the 1^st prize of realised sustainable building in greece at the [B]GREEN competition, for the project “ALIKI PERROTI STUDENT RESIDENCE” of the American Farm School.

• Inaugural lecture of Petros Makridis in a series of lectures – presentations organized by the Technical Chamber of Greece / Department of Central Macedonia, on the work of architects in Central Macedonia titled “ARCHITECTS IN THESSALONIKI”.

• Lecture – Project presentation: “ALIKI PERROTI STUDENT RESIDENCE” of Perrotis College of the American Farm School, which was selected as a representative sustainable building at the International Conference “Urban Communities & Green Architecture” in the context of ΕCOWEEK 2011 in Thessaloniki

• Participation of Thodoris Makridis in the WeMe Archiving Collectivity Committee for Thessaloniki

• Presentation of the following projects of MAKRIDIS ASSOCIATES in the architectural website ArchiSearch (www.archisearch.gr):
  • “ALIKI PERROTI STUDENT RESIDENCE” OF PERROTIS COLLEGE OF THE AMERICAN FARM SCHOOL
  • ‘EIGHT-STOREY TWIN TOWER, RETAIL, OFFICE SPACES AND APPARTMENTS – GREEN 45’
  • ‘CAFÉ-BAR PUNTO NERO’
  • ‘BUSINESS INNOVATION CENTER’

• Participation of MAKRIDIS ASSOCIATES and lecture by Petros Makridis at the Workshop “Urban Communities & Green Architecture” organised by ΕCOWEEK 2011, presenting the project “MUSEUM OF JEWISH PRESENCE IN THESSALONIKI – RENOVATION OF A LISTED BUILDING”

• Participation of MAKRIDIS ASSOCIATES in the Architectural Works Exhibition of the Greek Architects Association within the context of the 11th Greek Architectural Conference, presenting the following projects:
  • “ALIKI PERROTI STUDENT RESIDENCE” OF PERROTIS COLLEGE OF THE AMERICAN FARM SCHOOL, THESSALONIKI
  • MORPHOLOGICAL, ENERGY EFFICIENT AND AESTHETIC REFURBISHMENT (UPGRADING) OF ALEXANDER BEACH HOTEL AND CONFERENCE CENTER (5*), ALEXANDROUPOLI
  • REDESIGN FOR THE MORPHOLOGICAL, ENERGY SAVING AND STRUCTURAL UPGRADING AND REUSE OF AN OFFICE AND RETAIL BUILDING, VOULA, ATTIKI

• Participation of Thodoris Makridis in the Young Architects’ Work Exhibition of the Greek Architects Association, within the context of the 11th Greek Architectural Conference, with the following projects:
  • CAFÉ- BAR PUNTO NERO
  • REDESIGN OF EXISTING BUILDING AS AN EXHIBITION AND OFFICE SPACE FOR A CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS COMPANY

• Presentation of the MAKRIDIS ASSOCIATES project “CONVERSION AND REUSE OF A FORMER TOMBACCO WAREHOUSE AS A LUXURY BOUTIQUE HOTEL (LES LAZARISTES)” in the international architectural website MIMOA (www.mimoa.eu)

• Presentation of the MAKRIDIS ASSOCIATES project “MUSEUM OF JEWISH PRESENCE IN THESSALONIKI – RENOVATION OF A LISTED BUILDING” by Petros Makridis and Thodoris Makridis to the postgraduate students and seminar architect fellows from Turkey who visited Thessaloniki on the occasion of the seminar “RESTORATION PROJECTS FOR MULTICULTURAL HERITAGE MONUMENTS AND SITES OF INSTANBUL – European Capital Of Culture 2010” organised by the Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Program of the Architecture School of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

• Lecture by Petros Makridis under the topic ‘SUGGESTIONS FOR THE ACTIVATION OF THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY’ at the conference organised by ‘KTIRIO’ magazine “ENVIRONMENTALLY EFFICIENT BUILDINGS, FOUNDATION OF THE ACTIVATION OF CONSTRUCTION”, within the context of the INFACOMA Construction Materials Exhibition, Thessaloniki

• Presentation by Eleanna Makridou of the project ‘ALIKI PERROTI STUDENT RESIDENCE OF PERROTIS COLLEGEOF THE AMERICAN FARM SCHOOL, AT THE AMERICAN FARM SCHOOL OF THESSALONIKI’ as part of an environmental education program at the 2nd Highschool of Evosmos

• Publication of the MAKRIDIS ASSOCIATES project ‘ALEXANDER BEACH HOTEL, ALEXANDROUPOLI’, in the International edition Atlas of World Interior Design, Markus Sebastian Braun, Michelle Galindo (ed), BRAUN 2011

• Presentation of the following MAKRIDIS ASSOCIATES projects in the architectural website ArchiTravel (architravel.com):
  • ‘ALIKI PERROTISTUDENT RESIDENCE’ OF PERROTIS COLLEGE OF THE AMERICAN FARM SCHOOL
  • ‘CONVERSION AND REUSE OF A FORMER TOMBACCO WAREHOUSE AS A LUXURY BOUTIQUE HOTEL 5* (LES LAZARISTES)’
  • ‘FUNCTIONAL, STRUCTURAL, AESTHETICAL AND ENERGY EFFICIENCY UPGRADING OF PAVILION 6 – CONNECTION WITH ‘I.VELLIDIS CONFERENCE CENTER’, INTERNATIONAL FAIR OF THESSALONIKI’

• Commission after selection of the study “FUNCTIONAL, STRUCTURAL, AESTHETICAL AND ENERGY EFFICIENCY UPGRADING OF PAVILION 6 – CONNECTION WITH ‘I.VELLIDIS CONFERENCE CENTER’, INTERNATIONAL FAIR OF THESSALONIKI”.

• Publication of the MAKRIDIS ASSOCIATES project ‘CAFÉ- BAR PUNTO NERO’ in the catalogue of Tom Dixon design firm.

• Commission after selection through a closed-entry competition of the study “REDEVELOPMENT OF A FACTORYAT THE WEST ENTRANCE OF THE MUNICIPALITY OF THESSALONIKI INTO A SHOPPING CENTER”

• Commission after selection, of the study “REFURBISHMENT OF MEDITERRANEAN COSMOS COMMERCIAL AND LEISURE SHOPPING CENTER”

• Commission after selection, of the study “YOUNG MEN’S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THESSALONIKI (YMCA) BUILDING – ASVESTOCHORI CHAPTER”

• EXHIBITION OF ARCHITECTURAL WORK AT THE 11th PANHELLENIC ARCHITECTURAL CONGRESS

Participation of MAKRIDIS ASSOCIATES with the projects: “ALIKI PERROTI STUDENT RESIDENCE, PERROTIS COLLEGE OF THE AMERICAN FARM SCHOOL” – “UPGRADING OF AN OFFICE AND RETAIL BUILDING” VOULA, ATTICA – “FUNCTIONAL, ENERGY EFFICIENT AND AESTHETICAL REFURBISHMENT OF ALEXANDER BEACH LUXURY HOTEL AND CONFERENCE CENTER (5*)”, ALEXANDROUPOLI – “INTERVENTION AT THE GROUND FLOOR OF A LISTED BUILDING (BAR – CAFE PUNTO NERO)”, THESSALONIKI – “OFFICE AND RETAIL BUILDING POLAT S.A.”, THESSALONIKI. Organizer: INSTITUTE OF GREEK ARCHITECTS, Athens, March 2011

• Participation in the exhibition ‘THE PROJECTS THAT WOULD CHANGE THE CITY’, within the context of the urban experiement of PARALLAXI magazine ‘Thessaloniki…allios’:
  • “CITÉ ALLATINI” DEVELOPMENT – RENOVATION, REUSE AND REFORMATION OF A LISTED INDUSTRIAL MILL COMPLEX
  • ‘EIGHT-STOREY TWIN TOWER, RETAIL, OFFICE SPACES AND APPARTMENTS – GREEN 45’
  • ‘BUSINESS INNOVATION CENTER’

• EXHIBITION OF ARCHITECTURAL WORK: “PROJECTS THAT WOULD CHANGE THE CITY”
 AS PART OF THE EVENTS “THESSALONIKI ALLIOS”


Participation of MAKRIDIS ASSOCIATES with the projects: “CITÉ ALLATINI” DEVELOPMENT – RENOVATION, REUSE AND REFORMATION OF A LISTED INDUSTRIAL MILL COMPLEX”
 – ” EIGHT-STOREY TWIN TOWER, RETAIL, OFFICE SPACES AND APARTMENTS – GREEN 45″ – “BUSINESS INNOVATION CENTER” 
 Organizer: MAGAZINE PARALAXI, Thessaloniki, June 2010

2009

• Publication of the following MAKRIDIS ASSOCIATES projects in the International edition More Theme Hotels, Frederik Prinz (ed), BRAUN, 2009:
  • ‘HOTEL LES LAZARISTES’
  • ‘ALEXANDER BEACH HOTEL AND CONFERENCE CENTER’