In 2012 one of the largest privately owned maritime groups worldwide, held an invited competition for its new headquarters; a decision carrying deeper significance amid the country’s economic crisis. In the five years before its completion, Agemar was, apart from the new SNFCC cultural center, the only large scale building constructed in Athens. Located near the waterfront, one block away from Sygrou Av., the main artery connecting Athens' center to the sea, Agemar is not a corporate building. It's more of a “big house” that breaks new ground for the Athenian typology of big buildings. 30616sqm floor area, in two buildings that unite underground.Building A, the Headquarters, houses entrance foyer, company museum and library, open plan offices on 5 floors, executive floor and roof-garden.Building B, the Crew, has an amphitheater and a restaurant, offices on 3 floors and a roof garden.4 underground levels with company gym, swimming pool, bridge and engine simulators on the 1st and a 330 cars parking on the other 3. Continuities in form and spatial definitions, material choices and details give the interior an airy quality. White-marble curved walls diffuse the limits of space, semitransparent glass walls hide and reveal views. Public spaces on the ground floor are expansive, geometry blends with materiality and the reflections of the surrounding water surfaces. White marble above a grey base, as in a metaphor of a boat at sea,Agemar is a 2019 Mies van Der Rohe Prize nominee.