“Blueprints of Innovation” Exhibition Visit – Showcasing Leading Cypriot Architectural Practices

10.00 - 10.10 OFFICIAL OPENING SESSION SHARE CYPRUS 2026

Constantinos Constanti, Director / Founder Constanti Architects Ena Pros EKATO, Cyprus Scientific and Technical Chamber (ETEK) President

Alkis Dikaios, partner Athos Dikaios + Associates Architects,  Cyprus Architects Association President

Christos Christodoulou, partner Simpaxis,  SHARE Society Ambassador, Cyprus

Florin Mindirigiu, Co - founder SHARE Architects

10.10 - 12.00   Session 1 _ Urban Models. Good Living Architecture

Moderator: Alkis Dikaios, partner Athos Dikaios + Associates Architects,  Cyprus Architects Association President

Co- Moderator: Marios Kazamias,  partner Marios Kazamias Architecture,  Cyprus Architects Association General Secretary

Nearchos Kelpis, Commercial Manager Muskita Aluminium Industries. Official Partner - SHARE Cyprus 2026

10.30 - 11.30  SHARE ARCHITECTURE AWARDS 2025. Celebrating Architectural Creativity from Central and Eastern Europe to Central Asia. Moderated conversation. 

Elena K. Tsolakis,  Director Kyriakos Tsolakis Architects, Cyprus. Overall Winner - SHARE Architecture Awards 2025 

Short overview: Kyriakos Tsolakis Architects is a practice defined by strategic clarity, social purpose, and a profound belief in architecture’s power to enrich lives and places. Their designs emerge from rigorous analysis of context, purpose and potential, resulting in work that is both soulful and socially meaningful. Across their body of work—from the first purpose-built women’s shelter in Cyprus, designed with care for dignity, safety and community impact, to a rehabilitation retreat for athletes embedded in the mountain—they consistently pursue architecture that is generous, accessible and emotionally resonant. Together, they represent a powerful, future-focused voice in socially driven, imaginative design. Current work includes a wellness space, an embassy building and a memorial. 

Project 1: Troodos Observatory, suspended and embedded within the dramatic mountain landscape, it is both a scientific instrument and a soulful public destination. It invites visitors into a shared experience of wonder—combining low-carbon strategies, careful detailing, and a spatial narrative that encourages curiosity; Project 2: Resort AIR. Topics of the Lecture: Urban Development & Regeneration

Pavlos Schizas,  Co-Founder MSSM Associates Cyprus. Honnorable Mention - SHARE Architecture Awards 2025

Short overview: As Co-Founder and Architect at MSSM Associates, he is involved in exploring and continuously researching innovative fields that inform and shape the firm’s design philosophy. MSSM Associates is an international platform with a presence in Cyprus, Indonesia, the UAE, and Australia, where each project emerges from the interconnection of diverse cultures, academic backgrounds, and professional experiences. Since founding MSSM Associates in Cyprus in 2017, his portfolio has expanded to include a wide range of residential projects, as well as commercial, touristic, and public works. Today, MSSM Associates holds a strong record of international achievements, including multiple international awards. 

Project 1:  The Origami House, Nicosia; Project 2: The Iconic Mosque competition, Dubai, UAE Topics of the Lecture: Future of Architecture: Disruptive Technologies & Innovative Materials

Miruna Pribeagu,  founder Reflex Architecture, Romania. Finnalist - SHARE Architecture Awards 2025

Short overview: Reflex Architecture is an architecture and interior design studio founded in 2010 in Bucharest by architects Miruna Pribeagu and Gabriel Pribeagu. Our work grows from the desire to transform environments into places that are not only functional and aesthetically balanced, but also welcoming, personal, and full of life. At Reflex Architecture, design is always a collaborative process. Every project is the result of teamwork — between architects, designers, and clients — where ideas evolve naturally through dialogue and shared vision. Our main goal is to create harmonious and beautiful environments that bring comfort, emotion, and authenticity to everyday living, spaces that truly feel like home

Project 1:  Iris House – Modern, warm, and playful interior design Project 2: House N - a stylish home in the city

Georgios Kalavas, Director Agisilaou & Kalavas Architectural Workshop Cyprus. Winner in the Completed Buildings Category (Culture, Heritage) - SHARE Architecture Awards 2025 

Short overview: Graduate of the Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. In 1994 he co-founded Agisilaou & Kalavas Architectural Workshop with Yiannis Agisilaou. He has participated in and received distinctions in architectural competitions. In 2016 he was awarded, together with Yiannis Agisilaou, the Cyprus Architecture State Award in the category “Outstanding Architectural Work” for the project “House in a Half Plot in Engomi.” He has served as a member of juries for architectural competitions. From time to time, he contributes articles to the daily press and architectural publications on topics related to architecture

Project 1: "Aphrodite" Thematic Route, Ineia, Paphos, (Route through nature, leading from the village of Ineia in the Paphos District to the Akamas National Park (an area within the "European Ecological Network Natura 2000"), featuring points of archaeological, cultural, and environmental interest, with designated stops and resting areas, scenic viewpoints, where the natural element is dominant and human intervention and presence are subordinate to the landscape).

Benjamin Walker,  Design Director LDA Design, UK. Honnorable Mention - SHARE Architecture Awards 2025 

Short overview: LDA Design is a collective of placemakers – landscape architects, strategists, planners, urban designers, masterplanners and environmental consultants – who aim to shape the world for the better. We are proud to be 100 percent employee owned. We champion change that raises the quality of life without hurting the planet. Our secret is to start at the end, by asking ‘what’s the change you want to see?’ This means listening closely to communities, clients and partners to reach consensus and to find the bigger wins. Recognitions: Honnorable Mention - SHARE Architecture Awards 2025. Topics of the Lecture:  Landscape, Urban Development & Regeneration

Discussions

12.25 - 14.25   Session 2 

Moderator:  Lora Nicolaou, Professor - Department of Architecture at Frederick University, Cyprus

BluePrints, speaker lecture, Cyprus

Julian Cross,   Principal Woods Bagot Australia / UK

Short overview:  Woods Bagot is a global design studio with 18 studios across six regions, specialising in architecture, interiors and masterplanning. The multi-authorship practice doesn't adhere to a signature style, instead creating alongside clients, communities and other creatives and exploring data to predict changing human behaviour.ch and teaching around the world, including in Finland, Spain, Singapore, Germany, Portugal, Holland, France, India, South Africa, Bangladesh, Australia and USA.

Project 1: Marangoni Paris; Project 2: Bauer District Stadiums. Topics of the Lecture: Future of Architecture: Disruptive Technologies & Innovative Materials

Jakob Sand,  Partner BIG

15.10 - 17.15   Session 3 _ Large-Scale & Cultural Projects. Museums, infrastructure, public buildings

Moderator: Chrystala Psathiti, Lecturer in Architectural Design & Theory at Neapolis University Paphos

BluePrints, speaker lecture, Cyprus

Clement Blanchet,  founder Clement Blanchet Architecture [cba] France

Short overview:  Clément Blanchet is a French architect, urbanist, teacher, and critic whose work operates across scales, disciplines, and geographies, from furniture and interior design to major public buildings, infrastructure, and large territorial strategies. His practice combines conceptual research with construction, positioning architecture as both a cultural act and a tool for transformation. Blanchet began his career at Rem Koolhaas’s Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) in 2004, where he became an associate in 2008 and was appointed Director of OMA France in 2011. Over a decade of close collaboration with Koolhaas, he played a central role in the development of OMA’s work in France and Europe. He led strategic research and competition-winning projects for Paris’s La Défense district, including the landmark proposals for the Tour Phare and Tour Signal, and co-authored the manifesto Mémorandum La Défense with Koolhaas. His work at OMA also includes the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion in London (2006), the Alexis de Tocqueville Library in Caen, the Toulouse Convention and Exhibition Center (PEX), the CentraleSupélec engineering campus, and the Simone Veil Bridge in Bordeaux. This period established his reputation for combining urban vision, architectural clarity, and experimental thinking. In 2014, Clément Blanchet founded Clément Blanchet Architecture (CBA) in Paris. Recent and ongoing projects include the urban masterplan for the HEC Paris campus, the design of Red Star Football Club’s historic Bauer Stadium in Saint-Ouen, and an institutional headquarters in Sicily.

Maurizio Meossi,  Associate Director ZAHA Hadid Architects

Short overview: Maurizio joined Zaha Hadid Architects in 2002, working primarily as a 3D designer for several international competitions. He moved to Italy in the same year to join the team working on the MAXII Museum of Contemporary Arts. After a few years where he worked for structural engineers GPA engineering, Maurizio re-joined the ZHA’s Rome office in 2006 as project architect for the Milan Citylife residential project, completed in 2013. Now in London, Maurizio became an Associate Director in 2020. Maurizio received his Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Florence in Italy and earned his Master of Architecture and Urbanism from the Design Research Laboratory (DRL) at the Architectural Association (AA) in London. He has taught at the University of Florence and frequently serves as an invited lecturer and critic at various Italian and American universities. A dedicated writer, he was Lead Editor of an architectural magazine from 2000 to 2009. EXPERIENCE Maurizio has worked on some of ZHA’s largest-scale residential projects across the world, including Italy, Australia, and Mexico. In Italy, he successfully led the design team for the residential cluster of buildings that form the new CityLife complex in Milan. Completed in 2014, the project is formed of 6 medium-rise towers organised around a wide green.

Project 1: 3ZHA Education and Cultural Building overview, with focus on NSC Science Center in Singapore (under construction); Project 2: ZHA Research and Innovation; focus on IBTEC Masterplan in Malaysia. Topics of the Lecture:  Large-scale development projects; Future of Architecture: Disruptive Technologies & Innovative Materials, Educational Architecture, Façades Design

17.40 - 19.00   Session 4 _ Special Guest Studio Invited

Moderator: 

Co-moderator: Christos Christodolou,  founder SIMPRAXIS ARCHITECTS, SHARE Society Ambasssador Cyprus

Short overview:   A design-oriented practice established in 2003. We are interested in engaging into an architect/client dialogue that encourages the redefinition of programmatic and spatial norms, leading to imaginative ideas, solutions and forms. These can generate a unique project in terms of its materiality and formal articulation; a product of the specifics derived from 3 key parameters: site, client and program. 

Jeremy Smith,  Design Director Irving Smith Architects, New Zealand

Short overview:  Irving Smith Architects is a research-based design practice working in sensitive environments throughout New Zealand and abroad. Key to Jeremy’s practice, teaching, and research, is understanding how buildings inhabit an environment that constantly undergoes change, be it in city or rural landscapes. Recognitions:  In his role as Design Director, Jeremy has led a range of design innovations, including winning The Most Beautiful, Innovative and Iconic Building, Dubai International Best Practices Award for Sustainable Development at the United Nations World Governments Summit in Dubai, UAE 2024, World Timber Building of the Year and World Higher Education and Research Building of the Year at the 2021 World Architecture Festival, a Laureate of the 2021 Eurasian Prize for Architecture, the 2021 Best of the Best Green Building Prize at the Masterprize Architecture Awards, the 2021 Architizer A+ Wood & Architecture Award, The Building at the 2021 Indo-Pacific INDE Awards, a Judges Special Award at the 2020 Taipei International Design Awards, a 2019 UNESCO Award of Distinction at the Asia-Pacific Cultural Heritage Awards in Penang, WAF World Villa of the Year at the 2017 World Architecture Festival. Publications include Architecture Magazine, Architecture Record, Elle, Vogue and GQ Magazine, and most recently, a book with American critic and author Aaron Betsky entitled Unfinished and Far Far Away.

Project 1: Te Whare Nui o Tuteata, SCION Timber Innovation Hub; Project 2: Bach With Two Roofs Topics of the Lecture: Future of Architecture: Disruptive Technologies & Innovative Materials,  Landscape, Urban Development & Regeneration, Educational Architecture

Closing Remarks. Invitation to Society Program

19:00 – 19:30 - Archaeological Site Visit - A guided cultural visit for international guests and speakers.

19:30 – 21.30 - SHARE Cyprus After Event Party - open-air celebration and networking atmosphere 

16 May 2026 (colaterall program) _ SHARE Architecture Society

Exclusive Architecture Site Visit - SHARE Architecture Awards 2025 — Overall Winner Project

National Star Observatory of Cyprus, Overall Winner - SHARE Architecture Awards 2025, Designed by: Kyriakos Tsolakis Architects - Lead Architect: Elena K. Tsolakis