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Coronation Hospital Square
Point 1/15
1950–1960-е
Year of construction
Unknown architect
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We will start with the new public center that developed here on what was then the outskirts of the city at the end of the English period of the island’s life, at the turn of the 1950s and 1960s. Everything you need for living was here: medicine, education, post office, law enforcement. If you stand at the bus stop and look at the Water Tower, then straight ahead (right in front of the Tower), you will see the Police Station, the Hospital on the left, the Traffic Police behind you, and the Technical School across the road, behind the fence.
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But in an orderly fashion. Under the British, the city began to grow rapidly. Just after two decades of existence, the first hospital on Anexertisias Street (see my itinerary “1 km of Architecture”) could not accommodate all the patients.
The British government was to invest in the construction of a new large and modern building; it was opened under the name Coronation Hospital, commemorating the coronation of Queen Elizabeth in 1953.
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Now this building is out-of-date, it is usually called the Old Hospital and awaits reconstruction. Note the change of style: the first hospital on Anaxertisias Street was in the neoclassical style, here it is modernism, without unnecessary decorations, unless you count as such the huge decayed wooden letters of the hospital’s name above the entrance.
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Let’s look towards the Water Tower. A small café pavilion nearby catches the eye: it could have been built of brick or wood, but Cyprus in the 1960s discovered concrete, affordable and convenient, and modern architecture with it, and preferred it even in a small building. The result was such a brutalist kiosk.
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