Klea Fine Bakery

The brisk pace punctuated by the row oak trusses patched with black steel structures characterizes the space of this bakery and café in Thessaloniki, Greece, by Karalasos Operaday Architects.

Designed by Karalasos Operaday Architects, Klea is a bakery and a take-away café located on the ground floor of a 1930 listed building, upon the major historical Thessaloniki’s axis.

The oddly elongate space is knowingly emphasized through the sense of rhythm provided by raw oak, 19th century’s “new gothic” trusses patched with linear untreated black steel structures.

The accented axial layout serves and fulfills the numerous and severe display’s demandings. The on-site preparation of oven-made products, becomes whimsically obvious, through the insertion of the episodic pavilion shape, resulting the basic roof structure.