NEON completes renovation of Hellenic Parliament owned building , the former Public Tobacco Factory, and gifts new cultural centre to the Greek State. Financed by NEON and its founder Dimitris Daskalopoulos and gifted back to Parliament for public use, the project aims to make part of the former Tobacco Factory stand out as a permanent contemporary cultural and social space – open to all.

Of the building’s total area of 19,000m2, a significant portion is currently occupied by the Hellenic Parliament’s Library and Printing House. NEON undertook renovations of the adjacent ground floor north and north-west wings, the atrium and the former customs office building: a total area of 6,500m2 which had, until now, remained closed and unused.

On June 2021 the emblematic building opened its doors to the public for the first time presenting the contemporary art exhibition Portals, a collaboration between the Hellenic Parliament and NEON.

Find out more about this ambitious restoration project.

Director | Panayotis Kravvaris
Production | Inkas Films Productions
Music | Stavros Gasparatos
© NEON 2021