Look up and slightly to your right for a tall, modern white building dotted with square windows and balconies running its length-like a huge slice of Swiss cheese rising above the city!
Welcome to Tower 25, or as locals love to call it, The White Walls! Imagine you’re standing beside a twenty-first-century castle, but instead of medieval knights and arrow slits, you’ve got cutting-edge design by the famous architect Jean Nouvel. At sixty-two meters tall, it isn’t quite scraping the clouds, but Tower 25 still stands proud as the eleventh-tallest building in all of Cyprus-a real head-turner in Nicosia’s cityscape.
If you listen closely, you might even hear the low hum of elevator doors swishing open and shut for Ernst & Young workers rushing to their shiny offices on the lower floors. Above the business buzz, those sleek balconies you see belong to apartments that offer jaw-dropping, panoramic views across the whole capital. There’s even a high-flying penthouse up top, spread across two floors, complete with its own pool-so yes, someone is swimming with the city at their feet! That penthouse sold before they even started pouring the concrete. Talk about confidence in your new address!
What’s wild is that Tower 25’s architecture fights the Cyprus sun with brains and beauty. On the southern face, those deep balconies cast plenty of shade, so you can sip your lemonade in the open air without melting like a gelato on a summer sidewalk. The rest of the façade is sprinkled with clever little square holes-windows for views, gaps for breezes-letting cool air flow and keeping the building comfortable year-round.
Just behind you, the curved Venetian walls whisper stories from Nicosia’s past, while the ultra-modern Eleftheria Square-dreamed up by Zaha Hadid-sits next door. Standing here, you can feel the tug-of-war between old and new, as Tower 25 leads the charge for more urban cool right along the historic ring road. Not bad for a building that cost a whopping 25 million euros and was finished only in 2013.
So take a deep breath, snap some photos, and imagine yourself high above, relaxing on a balcony with all of Nicosia at your feet!
