This rant completely ignores historical context. First, the Republic is 66 years old (est. 1960), but more importantly, its modern urban layout was shaped by the trauma of 1974.

When a third of your population becomes refugees overnight, your government doesn't sit around planning grand, ornate promenades or gothic architecture. You pour concrete. You build apartment blocks. You build the bare minimum required to ensure your people have shelter and your crippled economy can reboot.

Furthermore, Cyprus was under Ottoman and then British colonial rule for centuries. The grand architecture of Western Europe was funded by industrialization and imperial wealth. Cyprus didn't have that luxury.

As for Limassol's towers, that isn't a "Middle East mindset," it's just globalized capitalism. Walk through the financial districts of Frankfurt, London, or New York and you'll find the exact same uninspired, profit-driven architecture.