architect work space

Artisan Retreat is the work space of our own architectural practice.

This is a listed building, which has been completely renovated using traditional contruction crafts and techniques, with all modern facilities concealed within its structure. The building layout places a collaborative work space in the center of the first floor, with spaces around it for one of the Partners and design personnel. The ground floor houses administration and design spaces, centered around a lobby which is the main entrance to the building. The lobby, with its antique objects and collections leads to the garden which is an assortment of private garden rooms, each suited for discussions between associates, clients and friends.

Artisan Retreat is close to being a carbon neutral building. Built of plinth 100 years ago and oriented properly, Artisan Retreat also benefits from the microclimate of the garden (which creates an 8 degree difference in temperature between the garden and the street next to it). Our inhouse weather station produces data for approximately 160 variables. If you are interested to read more about this topic, please read the article Between 24 and 25.5 Degrees.

Artisan Retreat

the warehouse

St Lazarus Square is named after the adjoining church which bears the name of Lazarus, the resurrected pupil of Christ and Bishop of Larnaca, who died and is buried within. Facing the square and the church, part of an old market around the church-now gone, is the site, a warehouse. Owned by a close-knit old merchant family that continues to respect family and tradition, we have been commissioned to resolve the overall arhictectural/development concept of the space.

Key requirements were how to lay down the space to allow for various options and stages of the building's future over the years to be acommodated for. To make definite spatial relationships and allocations for each family member to be presented with a personal work space. To create a conference space, decorated with items of the history of this family over the course of a century. To insert as much parking space as possible. To allow for the ground floor of the warehouse to be commercially exploited by a high-quality tenant. To ensure a building with services that would make it a healthy, practical and economic-to-run business environment. No overstatements, a dignified and peaceful working environment.

St Lazarus Warehouse

death by architecture

This space will become a constantly evolving space.. ..a play park where anything goes! It will be developed over time and will serve as experimental territory for its users. Placing a name on this project in the search of a program imposes limitations; installation art space, studio, music and play workshop.. these definintions limit our thought and induce spiritual death by architecture. Not every building fits in a clean category. This is one of them. Expect the unexpected.

Evolution

san fran

A gallery space concept, for a tight site on a busy commercial street in San Francisco. The program involved the design of a gallery on the ground floor, and a work space for 2 artists on the first floor. Measuring 12 ft long to 75 feet deep, blind on 3 sides and opening up to a narrow street, the challenge involved segregating the spaces whilst maintaining visual continuity of the already tight space. With help of light wells to balance the light where needed and of a fluid top floor comprised of steel and glass, the use of space each place becomes pleasant and special in its own right.

San Francisco Gallery

Virtu Gallery is located at the Hilton Hotel. The project was designed and built in less than 4 weeks.

Virtu-Hilton

Happy Tear is situated on Limassol Avenue, Nicosia and it is being designed as class A office space for single tenant rental. The high-profile location and the needs to safeguard the future of the investment over time has shaped our design which strives to be functional, cost effective to maintain, ecological and memorable.

The water table at 6.5m depth and the presence of 3 basements with an 8 storey steel structure require specialist structural design and civil engineering, undertaken by Earthquake Protected Structures. The challenge of integrating the building's Mechanical functions to deliver effective performance has been undertaken by Christoforou, Katsambas and Associates. Advanced Electrical systems have been fashioned by Meltec. The Development Management is undertaken by Lordos Design and Build Ltd. The Developers of the project are Happy Tear Ltd.

Happy Tear

work spaces

The Artisan Retreat is a 200 year old structure within the Old Town of Nicosia, currently occupied by our architectural practice.

St Lazarus Warehouse is an ex warehouse that will house a bustling cafe facing the Church of St. Lazarus at the heart of the Old Town of Larnaca, on top of which shall be the business headquarters of an old trading family of the island who are the owners of the building. The roof shall be host to a rooftop apartment with its own small garden.

Evolution is a polymorphic space that will be able to accommodate theater and performances, act as a gallery and town meeting space. It will host free expression to those who would want to make use of it. And it will have a bedouin tent on the roof, under the Nicosia breezy night sky..

Gallery Concept comprises of two sketches and has not been built.

The Best View in Town showcases an apartment with an incredible sea view which is preserved by the retraction of a glass wall that fuses together living room and master bedroom within 180 degrees of sea-facing glass.

Virtu is a fantastic gallery featuring the improbable, at the Hilton Hotel, Nicosia, Cyprus.