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Each annual project in Limassol, Urban Reflections explores architecture through the relationship between space, place, and the people who inhabit them. It examines how people and places shape each other through experience, awareness, and everyday life, including the sensory and emotional qualities that make a city come alive—the sounds, textures, light, smells, and rhythms that define how we feel and move through urban space. The project gathers small stories and moments that have shaped the city, observed through daily activities, events, and interactions. Memory, imagination, shared experiences, and emotions come together to form what we understand as “space” and “place.”

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The project frames development not as a single-directional pursuit of economic expansion, but as a layered, ongoing process that touches social cohesion, cultural expression, environmental responsibility, and spatial justice. Through critical observation and reflection, it questions how urban transformation reshapes public spaces, daily experiences, and the balance between individual aspirations and the shared good. The city becomes a living field of dialogue, where memory, innovation, and participation intersect, and where its atmosphere and sensory qualities shape the everyday life of its inhabitants.

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At its core, Limassol, Urban Reflections advocates for a holistic and sustainable urban vision—one that values compactness over sprawl, accessibility over exclusion, creativity over uniformity, and a rich, lived sensory experience. By engaging with local conditions and global principles, it invites citizens, designers, and decision-makers to imagine a city that is resilient, inclusive, and deeply rooted in its cultural and ecological context.