Urbanism
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We practise architecture as one discipline with urban design. The masterplan and the building demand the same deliberation at different scales: what should be here, for whom, and how should it work with what is already around it.

Every project starts with the brief, the site and the people involved. We read all three carefully, set the strategy early, and stay with the project from the first decision to the last detail.

We work directly with our clients, we move quickly where speed matters and slowly where care matters, and we measure ourselves on the result: a project that performs, for everyone with a stake in it.

What we build has consequences that outlast us. A building, a square, a part of the city, once made, shapes the lives of the people who use it for decades. We take that as the measure of seriousness — not the size of the project, not the visibility of the commission, but whether what we build deserves to be there.

Every project begins with the place. The plan of a town, the way a road meets a square, the way a building meets the ground. All these can be read, and most of them already contain the answer to what should happen next. Our task is to find it, test it, and put it on the table.

We carry the strategic and the building level with the same rigour, by the same people. A masterplan that no one can build is not a masterplan; a building that ignores its surroundings is rarely a good building. The two questions are one question, and we answer them as one.

The form, the section, the way light enters and people move through, the order of solid and opening, the relationship to the street — these are the design questions, and they are answered drawing by drawing.

A building is also where the strategic question is tested. The brief, the site, the use, the cost, the construction, the experience of being inside it — all have to resolve into one object. We carry it from the first sketch to the last detail, with the same partners holding the project throughout.

We are sincere with clients about what is possible and what is worth doing. The end result is the test, and we are willing to be measured by it.

Every drawing that leaves the studio has been conceived or composed by a partner. There is no point where we step away — the people you brief are the people who deliver.

George and Georgia have practised together for over twenty years, most of it within Polytia Armos. MELOUAR is the natural next step — a limited company under their two names, formed to focus the practice and the way they want to run it. Between them they have led, co-led or contributed to projects across architecture, urban regeneration, masterplanning, public realm, sustainable mobility, built heritage, construction supervision, research and teaching — for private clients, public bodies and institutions, in Cyprus and beyond.

Two partners, two starting disciplines, both refusing the boundaries of their original training. The questions opened in their theses — what a divided city should become, what role the public realm plays in holding a place together, how the contemporary city is remade by what cannot be drawn — still drive the practice, and are why it has so consistently centred on the public realm, on the small and medium-sized city, and on the territory beyond the single building.

Throughout their careers, George and Georgia have collaborated closely with senior architecture and planning figures on urban centre masterplans, regeneration studies, traditional settlement plans, high-rise buildings and large-scale housing. Those collaborations shaped the practice's approach to both public and private commissions alike - where holding a clear position through many voices, and across a wide range of building types, has been the discipline.

Twenty years of hard-won experience, earned together, is what MELOUAR is now built to carry forward.