YACHT & CRUISE
Pure brutalist energy On Kourouta beach, one of the most pristine stretches of the western Peleponnesian coast, an abandoned industrial site – a former wine storage facility – has now been converted into the luxurious Dexamenes Seaside Hotel by K-Studio
“A
rchitecture means establishing relations in movement with the raw materials”, said Le Corbusier, father of the Brutalist movement. The luxurious Dexamenes Seaside Hotel is living proof of this, with the roughness of its bare cement, emphatic volumes and coarse materials shaping the spaces. This industrial complex, a combination of raw beauty and vigour, dates back to the early 20th century. It stands on the shores of Koruouta, Greece, and was built to store wine to be loaded directly onto cargo ships moored nearby. Now a refined, distinctive hotel complex, Dexamenes – the Greek word for tanks – has been skilfully converted by 82 | IFDM
HOTEL
Kourouta, Greece
