Cyprus.
Walk through a reimagined Nicosia square and visit an old powerhouse’s second life in contemporary art. Alongside them, coastal access and energy experiments reveal other ways to work with the island’s setting.
Our Cyprus coverage focuses on areas under the effective control of the Republic of Cyprus.
Start with Eleftheria Square.
A city crossing becomes somewhere to stay.
Nicosia connects a civic square above with a park in the historic moat below.
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Could flexibility unlock wave energy?
A flexible chain of floating sections tries to harvest wave motion by following the sea rather than holding one rigid device against it.
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A place to test what solar heat can do.
At Pentakomo in the Republic of Cyprus, PROTEAS brings concentrated solar heat, thermal storage and desalination research into one experimental facility.
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Find the litter before planning the clean-up.
A robotic marine-cleanup pilot in Larnaca connects detection, classification and collection across the surface and seabed.
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Explore how underwater robots could stay on site.
A Franco-Cypriot research collaboration links small underwater robots with a longer-term idea: docking and monitoring within an artificial-reef system.
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The powerhouse stays switched on.
Nicosia’s former power station has spent decades producing encounters with contemporary art.
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