The Riviera Tower is set to become Greece’s tallest building and is now past the halfway mark at impressive 113 metres and will reach a final height of 200 metres.
Once complete, the 50-storey skyscraper will soar nearly twice as high as the country’s current tallest structure, the 103-metre Athens Tower 1, which has held the title since 1971.
Riviera Tower will house 169 luxury residences, ranging from one-bedroom apartments to sprawling five-bedroom homes.
The tower is rising from the southern coast of Athens, on the site of the former Ellinikon International Airport, and forms a centrepiece of The Ellinikon — an urban regeneration project touted as the largest of its kind in Europe.
Led by Greek firm Lamda Development, the project brings together British architectural giant Foster + Partners, contractors Bouygues and Greece’s Intrakat, with Mace and Jacobs managing the project and Hill International providing supervision.
Aiming high on sustainability and design, the Riviera Tower has already secured LEED Gold Pre-Certification – attaining this certification denotes that a building has excelled in its sustainable design and operation.
In 2023, Mace reported it had managed Greece’s largest-ever continuous concrete pour for the building’s foundations — over 7,000 cubic metres of a specially formulated mix that uses 70 per cent less cement than standard concrete, poured over an uninterrupted 38-hour period.
The Riviera Tower is just one of four high-rises planned for The Ellinikon. Completion of the tower is scheduled for the first quarter of 2026, marking a major milestone in the development’s transformative first phase.
