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Flying Tiger
Point 8/9
Circa 2010
Year of construction
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Architect
They say you do speak a foreign language if you make up a joke in it. The same for the language of architecture. Postmodernist architecture offers an irony on the styles of the past. So the building that today houses a shop for cute trinkets and stylish items for the home mocks the Baroque buildings.
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Any historian will tell you: there was no Baroque in Cyprus. In the 17th and 18th centuries, when the refined and pompous style filled the streets and courts of the capitals, the island was under Ottoman rule, and European influence was severely limited.
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But now you may build whatever you want: so here you have oval windows and medallions with scrolls, broken cornices — so characteristic of baroque churches and palaces. If earlier these elements were made of natural stone or plaster, now you can use light and cheap polyurethane.
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