MPNYC Converts Former Piraeus Port Warehouse into Adaptable Cultural Space Opening October 2026

Key facts

• MPNYC transforms a former storage and workshop building on Polydefkous Street in Piraeus, Greece, into an office, showroom, and gallery.
• The new space opens in October 2026 with a photography exhibition.
• It is located diagonally opposite Castor Place, another MPNYC project.
• The building originally served as a port storage facility, later divided into smaller cargo units, then repair workshops, an industrial-equipment showroom, and rooms for a Middle Eastern film-production company.
• MPNYC treats the existing structure as a found object, using subtraction to recover its earlier character.
• The team describes the space as a 'slider,' allowing rooms to shift functions: kitchen as workshop, model-making room, pop-up restaurant, or café; meeting rooms as galleries, project rooms, or workshops.
• Andreas Kostopoulos imagined the space as an in-real-life venue for exchange where practitioners in art, craft, and design work alongside one another.
• The project reopened original doorways, restored timber shutters found inside walls, reused reclaimed brick, and revealed an approximately 150-year-old fir roof by removing suspended ceilings.
• Metal props from the inaugural Castor Place exhibition were reused as tables and display units; old timber tool-storage cabinets became material displays and bookshelves.
• Photographer Yorgos Kaplanidis documented the project.