Taína Blue Retreat: A Converted Power Station on the Greek Coast

The building spent fifty years generating electricity for the island’s population, then another twenty years standing empty while its owners debated what to do with it. What they eventually did was sell it to two architects who had been waiting for exactly this kind of opportunity.

The conversion has taken seven years and produced something that resists easy description: twelve rooms arranged across three floors of a former turbine hall, organised around a philosophy of radical material honesty.

“We did not want to hide what this building was,” says one of the architect-owners. “We wanted to celebrate it. The machinery is gone, but the scale is still here, and the scale is extraordinary.”