Stavros Economou designed this building in 1961. One of the defining architects of Cypriot Modernism. Built for SOPAZ, the Cooperative Food Production Organisation, animal feed, cooperative economy, half a century of use. A fire in 2015. Since then, the Nicosia Municipality owns it. No decision has been made.

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I went without knowing what I was looking for. I knew only that history would be lost if no one looked.

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Inside, everything is where it was left. Machinery. Conveyor belts. Pipes. In the control room where the fire began, a panel, and beside it small replacement bulbs that were never needed. On the floor somewhere else, pigeon tracks pressed into wet cement before it set, now permanent.

The architecture remained. What it held has gone.

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What guides the work is always the absence of those who built and laboured here, made present through what they left behind without meaning to.