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Aer House / Studio Kyriakos Miltiadou

Hadir Al Koshta — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 06:00:00 +0000

Situated near a sparse forest with intriguing vistas over the suburbs of Nicosia, this house stands in a deliberately ambiguous way: Rather than adopting a conventional residential typology that opens outward to offer uninterrupted views of the surrounding landscape, it rises as an austere, introverted box. Is it a building, a sculpture, or a container? The proposal constitutes an elaboration of the primordial dwelling-box and its reinterpretation in relation to contemporary modes of domestic living.

Casa Oblivio / M.O.B design studio

Miwa Negoro — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 06:00:00 +0000

Casa Oblivio attempts to spatially articulate the encounter between memory and oblivion. It is a house born of lived experience, a dwelling rooted in place, where childhood play was transformed into architectural intent. An architectural gesture embedded in light, air, the immaterial, and the silence of the Mediterranean inland.

Domus Maya House / Studio Kyriakos Miltiadou

Miwa Negoro — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 20:00:00 +0000

The house is located in the south-eastern suburbs of Nicosia, on a plot of a new urban neighborhood. To the south lies the familiar urban chaos of the city composed of scattered residential buildings in an inhomogeneous arrangement. To the north, the vast agricultural fields highlight the extensive horizon offering unobstructed views of the trapezoidal hill of Aronas. The program is typical: a two-story house with 3 bedrooms and a guest room for a young family of four. This house is the result of a design process that seeks to reinterpret the courtyard typology found in traditional residences in Cyprus, through the contemporary ways of domestic living.

Residence 222 / Eraclis Papachristou Architects

Valeria Silva — Mon, 06 May 2024 16:00:00 +0000

The description of a residence, of home, might be easy to put into words and all but impossible to satisfy in its built conclusion. The ingredients are standard, and the variations on the theme are endless. It is a box, a series of boxes under a roof, a machine for living in, a place of the soul. It is Bachelard’s nest and shells. It is still the primitive dwelling and it is increasingly irrelevant.

House 345 / Constanti Architects

Andreas Luco — Sun, 29 Jan 2023 06:00:00 +0000

The original design idea of House 345 originates from the needs of its owners. Introversion and privacy were the two main components expressed by the owners. To achieve this goal as well as the creation of a space that will be used daily by a family, the design team decided to identify several imaginary zones, which will be implemented through physical and mental limits.

House With Courtyards / Christos Pavlou Architecture

Andreas Luco — Sat, 14 Jan 2023 11:00:00 +0000

On a large piece of land located a few kilometers outside of Nicosia, in an inhospitable and desolate landscape, the owners decide to build their "shelter". With no particular views, no neighbors, and not much greenery other than reeds along a dry ditch, the surrounding rural space does not lend itself to extroversion. Between city and nature, isolation and sociability, we are invited to create comfortable and safe living conditions in a completely hostile environment.

Domus Laetitiae House in a Refugee Settlement / Studio Kyriakos Miltiadou

Pilar Caballero — Sat, 08 Oct 2022 13:00:00 +0000

The house is built on the traces of a ruined building in a high-density refugee settlement in Nicosia, Cyprus. It is situated between two existing partition walls on a narrow land (189 m²). The Cypriot refugee camps were erected shortly after the summer of the Turkish invasion in 1974, to provide temporary accommodation for the Greek-Cypriot refugees who were forced to leave their homes because of the war. Today, these sites bear the signs of abandonment and decay and are more like urban crevices interrupting the continuity of the city. The restrictive building regulations that are applied in these sites, indicate a complex condition raising questions regarding their readjustment to the contemporary ways of residential living.

Cyprus International University Masterplan / Arup

Paula Pintos — Sat, 28 May 2022 06:00:00 +0000

Cyprus International University (CIU) is growing in size and aspiration. Located near the country’s capital, Nicosia, the University has ambitious plans to increase its students from 17,000 to 24,000 by 2022. Arup was invited to develop a master plan to guide and deliver its growth plans, considering its future academic, social, and sustainability goals.

Eleftheria Square / Zaha Hadid Architects

Paula Pintos — Tue, 14 Dec 2021 08:25:00 +0000

Establishing Eleftheria Square as the city’s primary gathering space, Zaha Hadid Architects’ (ZHA) design creates new connections intended to unite a divided capital. Nicosia’s massive Venetian fortifications separate the old city from its modern districts, while the city’s ‘Green Line’ divides the capital into two disparate communities.

Single-Multi Residence in Nicosia / NOA architects

Pilar Caballero — Sun, 07 Feb 2021 09:00:00 +0000

Headline
Single-Multi residence provides new ways to view the concept of living. The external wall is far more than just an element of division between the interior and exterior. It defines the boundary between the public and the private, between the common and the unique, the ordinary and the special, the unknown and the intimate.

A House with Four Gardens / draftworks architects

Valeria Silva — Fri, 17 Apr 2020 03:00:00 +0000

" In company with the aphid and the grasshopper, but also the spider mite, the tiger moth, the leaf, miner, the mole, and the hover-fly, the praying mantis that devours them all. We shall be sharing leaves, petals, sky, in this incredible garden, both they and I transitory." NICOSSIENSES, Niki Marangou.

The Garden House / Christos Pavlou Architecture

Pilar Caballero — Tue, 24 Dec 2019 03:00:00 +0000

Cities are considered to be one of the major reasons for the many environmental issues we have today. Studies show that cities emit 60% more carbon that thought, in fact they account for more than 70% of the global CO2 emissions. With our garden house project we would like to emphasize how much potential there is for urban gardens and for the creation of microclimates which could improve the living conditions within cities and slow global warming.

A Superimposed Journey through the Archeological Heritage of Cyprus in New Museum Proposal

Dima Stouhi — Fri, 22 Mar 2019 04:00:00 +0000

Architects often find inspiration from the most unexpected places and objects. For Kalliope Kontozoglou, the C6th Cypriot Sphinx in the Louvre Museum and its tilted head were great influence behind her proposal for the International Architectural Competition for the New Cyprus Museum.

Cardboard Pavilion "Get High Without Drugs" Wins FAB FEST Prize

Tessa Forde — Sat, 21 Oct 2017 16:00:00 +0000

Quirky, innovative and visceral, Get High without Drugs was awarded first place in the fabrication category at this year’s International FAB FEST* in London.

Proposal For A Transparent Museum in Cyprus Rethinks The Urban Square

Osman Bari — Mon, 07 Aug 2017 06:00:00 +0000

Responding to a competition brief for a new archaeological museum in Nicosia, the divided capital of Cyprus, a proposal submitted by Greek architects Alkiviadis Pyliotis and Evangelos Fokialis uses the traditional elements of the line, atrium and stoa to inform the composition of the envisioned landmark. Titled "Trigonica Simplicitas," the design of the museum is intended to form a new central hub, celebrating Cypriot history and culture through the synthesis of indoor and outdoor spaces on various levels to rethink the function of a museum.

Winning Proposal for Cyprus Archaeological Museum Celebrates Regional History

Osman Bari — Sat, 05 Aug 2017 12:00:00 +0000

Theoni Xanthi of XZA Architects has been selected as the winner in the competition to design the new archaeological museum in Cyprus. Composed of three layers corresponding to Memory, the City, and the River, Xanthi's proposal took first place in a competition that sought a new urban space to celebrate Nicosia’s history and archaeology. The project is situated in close proximity to the medieval city walls, enabling it to play a key role in altering and upgrading the existing urban and green spaces that surround it.

Pavilion at Architect’s Residence / Kythreotis Architects

Karen Valenzuela — Mon, 22 Dec 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Completed in 2013, the pavilion is situated in a 2,000 square meter plot of land, along the Pedieos river, in the Ayios Andreas district of the city of Nicosia, Cyprus, and is designed to co-exist with a refurbished 1940’s listed house.

Leventis Art Gallery / Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios

Karen Valenzuela — Fri, 14 Nov 2014 01:00:00 +0000

A new art gallery with restaurant and apartments for the AG Leventis Foundation, a private foundation supporting educational, cultural and philanthropic causes which promotes Hellenic culture. The eroded building form is inspired by the vernacular response to Cyprus’s climatic challenges, creating a tenuous play between solid and void and generating a series of courtyards and gardens, both public and private, which connect to the street and the spectacular views to the Pentadaktylos Mountains to the north and resonate with both ancient and contemporary quarters of Nicosia.