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Nora Court
Point 6/9
Сirca 1970
Year of construction
Unknown
Architect
We are at the crossroads of two important streets for Limassol: Anexartisias Street and Athinon (Athens) Street, where in the first half of the 20th century, the rich citizens loved to settled down.It’s marked by the massive volumes of Nora Court condominium. These buildings may give an impression of oversimplification, but look closely — there was great ambition here! The desire to increase the density and height of buildings, to go upwards toward the sky, toward the impossible, creating a dynamic urban environment, is characteristic of the 1960s and 1970s, when Cypriots, breaking free from centuries of subjugation, were eager to show the world what they could do.
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Modernist architecture, which emerged at the very beginning of the 20th century as a revolutionary movement that rejected the styles of the past, was best suited for this purpose. The trend, which grew out of Art Nouveau, industrial architecture, and objectless art, favors rationality and functionality, geometric forms, no ornamentation. Le Corbusier, the founder of modernist architecture, said that a residential building should be a perfect and comfortable “machine for housing.”
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This is how Limassol condominiums of the 1960s and 1970s were seen by their architects (check my other Limassol route “Big City Lights: the Dream of the High Density”).To get a better look at this apartment complex, we advise you to walk straight down Athinon Street and look into the courtyard. Here is modernism without manifestos, mature, knowing well its place in the world. Pay attention to the main accent — the red pipe. It emphasizes a constructive, functional feature, presenting it as decoration, a characteristic of modernist architecture.
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