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Pavlides building
Point 2/9
1956
Year of construction
Neoptolemeos Michaelides
Architect
This building holds an honorable place in the Cypriot list of Modernist architecture and was recently restored by Akis Haralambous and Partners. Its author, Neoptolemeos Michael-ides, studied in the 1940s in the Politecnico of Milan under the eminent architect Gio Ponti and theorist Bruno Zevi. Imbued with the ideas of Italian rationalism, Neoptolemeos returned to Cyprus and became a star of Cypriot architecture. Other iconic buildings of Michaelides can be seen in Nicosia, I would recommend to see St. Varnavas and St. Makarios Church.
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The Pavlides condominium is like a multi-deck liner traveling through the old city. The massive reinforced concrete slabs spire from bottom to top, and the balcony railings are made as airy as possible, all so that the large house does not clutter up the narrow street. Because of the protruding beams, the people of Limassol nicknamed such an unusual house “The Cannons of Navarone,” after the name of the legendary novel and film about the Resistance to the Nazi occupation of Greece during the Second World War. In the same spirit, Pavlides designed the Grecian Park Hotel in Varosha, a now abandoned resort in Northern Cyprus.
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We are in the old shopping district of the city. The ground floors are repurposed as retail shops, and above are offices and apartments. If you are lucky enough to get inside this building, you will be surprised to find open balcony corridors connecting apartments — reminding of popular Italian house typology “casa di ringhiera” that Michaelides certainly saw during his student’s years in Milan.
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The angular ship house echoes the rounded wave house built later. You’ll see it when you reach Agiou Andreou Street and turn left.
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