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Petrolina port filling station
Point 10/10
1980
Year of construction
Haris Fereos
Architect
Let wrap up this route with a hidden gem — a finely-designed utilitarian structure. Its main feature is the smoothing: all corners of the volumes and windows have smoothed angles.
And then, there is a very Cypriot detail: the pylon closest to the tower cuts through the concrete eaves of the roof — as a promise of continued construction — the eternal, endless progress that you could believe back in the 1980s.
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The petrol station was built by Haris Fereos, who had studied at the University of Athens and had worked closely with the Larnaca-based oil giant, Petrolina, since the late 1960s. He designed the company’s Larnaca head office for Petrolina and a magnificent mansion for a member of the company’s family, inspired by the American master Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater house (see more on the Lefkaritis family in my “Vanishing Homes” route).
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Around the petrol station, you can also see other modernist buildings most likely from the 1980s–1990s: a monumental toilet and an administration office building.
That’s it for this time, I’d like to get your impressions of the route! Please tag your photos from the walks @favole_di_cemento #nikitinrimsky.
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