Nikos Salda is a Greek artist and architect whose large-scale installations explore the fragile balance between structure, light, and belief. From The 13th Star, a 90-meter yellow scaffold built on a former NATO base, to Shading the Cradle, a floating canopy above the Parthenon, his works transform symbols of power into gestures of protection.

At the edge of Europe, where the land breaks into sea, a yellow star rises—built from a hundred thousand scaffolding bars on a former NATO base. Nikos Salda’s 13th Star turns a site of defense into a beacon of peace, a monument for what remains unfinished.

Above the Parthenon, a vast black canopy hovers like a woven shadow — an act of preservation and provocation at once. With Shading the Cradle, Nikos Salda reimagines democracy not as a ruin, but as a structure that still breathes, fragile and unfinished beneath the Athenian sun.