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Preface AP Valletta’s vision is to create an Architecture that is a place-maker, a container of meaning, a catalyst for the creation of kinship, a fabricator of myth and a producer of narratives. AP Valleta is the product of the convergence of several are complex, ariculated and unstable, the only certain Our organisaional structure is purposely lexible, capable tasks which were commissioned over the years contribuing conclusion that emerges from this research is the inefable of addressing the speciic criteria of any individual project to the mulitude of disciplines required to achieve the goals quality of Architecture. We have the undiminished ambiion and drawing on the talent and skills of its extended team, envisioned by the client. to evoke, in varying ways, a common sense of architecture consising of a muli‐naional and muli‐disciplinary as a generator of real life, not only the backdrop to events, community of 50 people including Architects & Civil Engineers, Each project tackled, whether architec tural, design or big or small, historical or rouine. Architecture and design, Structural Engineers, Interior Designers, Restoraion Archi‐ planning related, contains a collecion of ideas, some tried for us, are more than space, seing, context and form. tects, Valuaion Specialists, PA (Planning Authority) liaison, and tested, others new and unprompted, whose unorthodox specialists in Contract Administraion, Built Environment overlap and unsetling combinaion is what brings the AP Valleta has 25 years of experience and has coninuously History & Heritage Management, and Environmental Design product to life. Projects are driven through varying facets of been expanding its ield of acivity. The pracice can provide as well as a team of administraive and support staf. architecture, interior and space, tracing trajectories that are a wide range of services including Architecture Design, Urban derived from speciic areas of research and experise, be it Design and Master Planning, Restoraion Theory and Pracice, that of the architect, the engineer, the criic, the educator, Sustainable Architecture, Structural and Civil Engineering the arist, the writer or the anthropologist. Although services, Interior Design, Strategic Real Estate Consultancy, soluions may seem simple, the origins of each project Graphic Design, Educaion and Publishing. Table of Contents AP Valleta Team 06 HOSPITALITY 81 Phoenicia Hotel AP in VALLETTA 19 Q‐Bar Xara Palace WATERFRONTS & URBAN LANDSCAPES 21 Dock1 Landscaping INFRASTRUCTURE 89 Valletta Waterfront Farsons Brewery Valletta Entrance Project Barrakka Lift Amsterdam Bridge OFFICES 35 Farrugia Investments AP LONDON 97 Malta Maritime Centre (now EASO) Stanhope Gardens Malta Stock Exchange I.D.E. Smokvica Development CULTURE 43 St. John’s Co Cathedral Museum FOUR SAPPERS CREATIVE CLUSTER 105 Manoel Theatre fablabvalletta Shelter for 12th Century Churches AP+ Events & Exhibitions RESIDENTIAL - NEW BUILD 53 Villa Urbanae PROPERTY VALUATION SERVICES 131 Madliena Villa Kappara Villa PROJECTS CATALOGUE 135 Grannie Nellie AWARDS 145 RESIDENTIAL - RESTORATION 65 The Coach House CONTACT 149 Villa Castro Dining Pavilion RETAIL 73 Camilleri Paris Mode Marks & Spencer Allcom AP VALLETTA TEAM Our organisational structure is purposely lexible, capable of addressing the speciic criteria of any individual project and drawing on the talent and skills of its extended team, consisting of a multi-national and multidisciplinary community. 7 AP Valletta Team DAVID DRAGO DAVID FELICE KONRAD BUHAGIAR CESAR MARQUES EMILIO SACCO JUSTIN SCHEMBRI is an execuive director of AP. He stud‐ is an execuive director of AP. He has is an execuive director of AP and is an architect at AP. He graduated is a design director at AP. He read is an architect at AP. He read for a BE&A ied Architecture at the University of delivered papers in various conferences has been responsible for numerous from the University of Coimbra, for a BE&A (Hons) in Architecture at (Hons) in Architecture at the University Malta and at the Louisiana State Univer‐ and has lectured in various fora. He restoraion and rehabilitaion works in Portugal, with a Master Degree University of Greenwich, Kent, U.K. He of Malta where he was part of the team sity, USA. He has been responsible for was the Chairman of the Valleta 2018 historic buildings and urban sites. He has in Architecture. He is currently handled some of the most important that brought the European Architecture some of the largest and most complex Foundaion, which delivered Valleta’s lectured in Malta and several countries involved in one of the most complex and interesing projects entrusted to Students’ Assembly (EASA) to Malta in projects entrusted to the oice, includ‐ successful bid for the itle of European abroad, published numerous historical projects entrusted to the oice, the the pracice, like the Valleta Waterfront 2015. He is currently project‐managing ing the Valleta Waterfront and and the Capital of Culture 2018. and academic aricles. masterplanning of a 400,000 sqm site and the new City Gate and Parliament the St. John’s Co‐Cathedral extension Dock1 landscaping project. for mixed use. Building. project. CHARLENE JO DARMANIN REINHOLD M. KARNER CHARLOTTE ERMENAULT GABRIELLA GALEA GUILLAUME DREYFUSS DANIEL RUIZ LOLO is an architect and restoraion expert is Chairman of the Board of Governance is a design director at AP. She read for is an architect at AP. She read for a BE&A is an expert in the ideniicaion, as‐ is BIM Manager and Environmental at AP. She studied at the University of of AP Valleta and an internaional busi‐ an MA in Architecture at the Ecole (Hons) in Architecture at University of sessment and presentaion of values Design Co‐ordinator at AP. He Malta where she read for a MSc. in ness advisor aiming for robust and sus‐ Naionale d’Architecture Paris‐Val‐de‐ Malta and she is currently involved in associated with heritage assets, as studied Architecture at University Conservaion Technology for Masonry tainable entrepreneurial success. He is Seine, France. She is currently based the St. John’s Co‐Cathedral Museum well as in the preparaion of restora‐ of Alcala, Spain. He holds a Buildings. She is involved in the based in Malta, Austria and London and in Paris where she leads internaional extension project. ion, maintenance, and management postgraduate Master in Sustainable most important restoraion projects has 40 years of experience as a muliple compeiions for AP. strategies. He read for a MA in Built Design Ceriicaion and Bioclimaic entrusted to the oice, like the St. awarded serial entrepreneur, coach, Environment, Sustainable Heritage Architecture at University of Paul’s Pro Cathedral. mentor and management consultant. from University College London, U.K. Barcelona, Spain. DANICA MIFSUD DAVINIA GALEA ANNEMARIE CUTAJAR JACQUES BORG BARTHET JOSEPH CALLEJA JURGEN VASSALLO is a design director at AP. She studied is director of management at AP. She has been taking care of oice is director of pracice at AP. He read for a is structural design director at AP. He is a structural engineer at AP. He read Architecture at the University of Malta read for a BA in Music and History of Art administraion at AP since 1999. She BA (Hons) in Architecture at the Univer‐ read for a BSc (Civ Eng) (Hons) at the for a MSc in General Structures at the and read for a MSc. in Structural at the University of Malta and an MA in studied at St. Joseph’s School and at sity of Malta and an MA in Urban Design University of Malta and a Post‐Graduate Imperial College in London, where he Engineer at University of Guildford, Arts and Cultural Management from the Giovanni Curmi Higher Secondary at Oxford, U.K. He started his career at in Structural Engineering at the Univer‐ was awarded for best concrete design U.K. She joined AP in 2006 and she led University of Sussex, U.K. She was pre‐ School in Malta, where she obtained AP’s ailiated company aoM where he sity of Witswatersrand, South Africa. He project in a mixed‐use reinforced various projects such as the Farsons viously Execuive Director of the Arts an A‐Level degree in languages. had a key role in the realisaion of a large has a vast amount of experience and, concrete tower building. Brewery and the Phoenicia hotel. Council Malta and is a visiing lecturer at scale development project and joining before joining AP in 2002, he worked for the University of Malta. AP in 2010. Arup U.K. 9 AP Valletta Team SHAUN VELLA LARA RUNCO LUELLA GALEA SARAH JANE BILOCCA SIMONE VELLA LENICKER KRISTINA KALNINA is a structural engineer at AP. He read is a structural engineer at AP. She read is an architect at AP. She read for a BE&A is an architect at AP. She read for is planning & valuaions design director is an architect at AP. She read for for an MA in Structural Engineering for a BE&A (Hons) in Architecture and (Hons.) in Architecture and Engineering a BE&A (Hons) in Architecture and at AP. She read for a BE&A (Hons) a BA in Architectural Technology at the University of Malta. Before Civil Engineering at the University of at the University of Malta and gained Civil Engineering and she is currently in Architecture at the University of and Construcion Management at joining AP he worked on residenial Malta. She focuses on structural design experience in various areas including studying Conservaion Technology for Malta. She is currently President of the the University College of Northern design projects with paricular focus and implementaion of construcion design development, preparaion of Masonry Buildings at the University of Chamber of Architects in Malta. She is Denmark. She works mainly on interior on structural soluions. quality control for a variety of both large drawings and documentaion for PA and Malta. also a registered Energy Performance of design projects but she is also involved and small scale projects.

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