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Cyprus: Integrated Landscapes
Nicosia’s Eleftheria Square by Zaha Hadid Architects
Exhibitions and
Installations 19 June - 4
July 2010
The Bargehouse Oxo Tower
Wharf, Bargehouse Street,
South Bank, London SE1 9PH
Exhibitions
and
Installations
20 - 25
June
2010
The
Hellenic
Centre
16 - 18
Paddington
Str,
Marylebone,
London
W1U 5AS
The exhibition
features Zaha Hadid Architects project of
Eleftheria Square in Nicosia - Cyprus and is
curated in collaboration with the Cultural
Department of the High Commission of the Republic of
Cyprus in the UK.
The project is simultaneously exhibited in two
venues: The Hellenic Centre (20 - 25 June) and The
Bargehouse (19 June - 4 July, 2010).
Integrated Landscapes is an approach to designing
projects throughout the intersection of political,
social and ecological issues. The concept for
Eleftheria Square takes the form of an architectural
intervention, which is only part of a much larger
urban planning vision that aspires to organize and
synthesize the whole of the Venetian Wall, Moat and
Fringes into a unified whole. The significance of
the intervention at Eleftheria Square lies in the
fact that it can become a catalyst for the urban
unification of the whole of Nicosia.
The architectural concept is part of a vision to
establish the extent of the Venetian wall and the
Moat into an urban park, a Central Green ring that
circumscribes the whole of the Walled city.
Based on the principles of overall geometrical
coherence and the development of localized
distinctiveness, the project integrates the massive
presence of the Venetian fortification with a
recreational urban park and a bridge that connects
the inner and outer parts of the City.
Today, the “Green line” separates the capital of two
communities and instead of being a place of
integration and unification it sadly occupies the
place of the last divided capital of Europe.
The significance of the intervention at Eleftheria
Square lies in the fact that it can become a
catalyst for the urban unification of the whole of
Nicosia. An opportunity which, by means of an urban
intervention, would offer an architecturally
coherent and continuous solution that would
reinstate the Venetian Monument as a main part of
the identity of Capital City and the Moat as the New
Landscape in which a central green ring can take
place providing free and unobstructed movement
around the whole of the fortified city.
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Open to public: Saturday 19th June 2010 - Sunday 4th
July 2010
Times: Daily 11.00am - 6.30pm
Private View: Monday 21st June 2010 from 6pm -
8:30pm
www.lfa2010.org
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