Nice Dream Tower | Mixed-Use Building in Nicosia

Interactive shell

The mixed-use building extends across sixteen levels in the heart of Nicosia, located on one of the city’s most important arterial roads, Themistokli Dervi Avenue, on a plot with distinctive geometric characteristics.

Functional Organization

The program includes retail spaces on the ground floor and mezzanine, six levels of office spaces, one level dedicated to communal leisure areas with a café and gym, six residential levels, and a semi-covered roof garden level with a rooftop pool. Parking requirements are met by four underground levels, with entrance from Nikokreontos Street and exit onto Themistokli Dervi Avenue.

The mixed-use concept responds to contemporary urban needs, particularly in city centers, where buildings are no longer strictly defined by a single use but instead become multifunctional cells within the urban fabric. As a result, the project maintains a constant interaction with its urban environment. Unlike the typical case of commercial buildings that remain closed at night and residential buildings that remain inactive during the day, Nice Dream sustains an uninterrupted relationship and activity with the city.

Façade Design

This relationship is reinforced by the detailed design of the envelope: an external mediating layer between the building and its surroundings, which constantly changes depending on the occupants’ activities, turning each façade into an active, interactive communication membrane. The envelope employs gradations of transparency and contrasts of materials to create a subtle and ever-shifting sense of space, movement, and light. The aim is to generate a distinctive atmosphere for both workspaces and living spaces.

Material Palette

The envelope is constructed of vertical aluminum panels, integrated within the structural grid and building levels -some solid, others perforated and operable- opening and closing according to the users’ needs. During the day, it can be fully closed, shielding against strong sunlight without losing visual connection thanks to its perforated surfaces. Externally, depending on the position of the louvers, the façade transforms, producing a play of transparency and permeability. At night, as light diffuses outward, the volume appears as if it almost loses its materiality.