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.
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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.
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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. preparaion of construcion drawings. Buildings Assessor, as well as a Member in residenial and commercial projects. of the Building Regulaion Board.
KAROlINA KANIA MAttHIAS PlAeHN RUtH AGIUS GUGlIelMO AVAllONe RIet eeCKHOUt ePHRAIM JORIS is a design director at AP. She read for is architectural technologist at AP. He takes care of AP’s housekeeping within is an architect at AP. He read for is a director of AP London. She worked is a director of AP London and co‐ a MSc. in Architecture and Urbanism at read for a BE&A (Hons) in Architecture the AP Valleta faciliies. an MSc and a Post‐Graduate MSc as Design Director for Dr. Ken Yeang Director at the Faculty of Architecture Delt University of Technology, Neth‐ and Civil Engineering at University of in Architecture at the Federico II and has concluded a PhD within the at KU Leuven University. He has erlands. Before joining AP Valleta, she Hannover, Germany. He joined AP in University in Naples. Before joining invitaional programme at the University lectured at several universiies such as worked for internaionally recognised 1996 where he is expert in architectural AP, he worked as an architectural of Melbourne (RMIT) Australia. She RMIT University, Syracuse University, irms, among others Renzo Piano Build‐ detailing and site supervision. assistant for internaionally recognised is a guest speaker and teacher at a Westminster University, Brighton ing Workshop and Atelier Jean Nouvel. architectural irms, such as David number of internaional universiies and University and Piet Zwart Insitute. Chipperield Architects in Milan. conferences.
MIlAN NORO RORY APAP BROWN ROSANNe ASCIAK SeAN BUttIGIeG JOe GAleA AleJANDRA DOS RAMOS is execuive director at fablabvalleta. is interior design director at AP. He read is a design director at AP. She read for is a co‐founder of fablabvalleta. He is a co‐founder of fablabvalleta. He read is an interior architect at AP. She read He read for a BA in Sports at University for a BE&A (Hons) in Interior Architec‐ a BE&A (Hons) in Architecture and Civil read for a BE&A from the University for a BE&A from the University of Malta for a MSc. in Architecture from the of Nišin, Serbia, followed by an MBA in ture in Edinburgh with a University Engineering at the University of Malta of Malta and for an MA.Arch from the followed by a Masters in Advanced University José Antonio Páez in Valencia, Business Management at the University medal for merit. Before joining AP in and has been involved in some of the Staedelschule in Frankfurt. His main Architecture at IaaC UPC Barcelona, Spain. Venezuela, followed by a Post‐Graduate of Sheield, U.K. 2008, he worked in London focusing most important projects entrusted to research focus dealt with material He is specialized in advanced geometries Master in Project Household Research on branded interiors. Rory is a found‐ the oice, including the award‐winning behaviour and computaional design. and logics, interacive design, prototyping at the University of Buenos Aires, ing member of MIDA (Malta Interior Barrakka Lit in Valleta. and fabricaion. Argenina. Design Associaion).
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lUIS RODRíGUez lóPez MARIKA SPOtO lUCIA CAlleJA eRICA GIUStA SANDIe GAleA CARlO tABONe is an architect and photographer at AP. is media and communicaion manag‐ is a structural engineer at AP. She re‐ is director of innovaion at AP. She is administraion manager at AP. She runs the printshop at AP and assists the He read for an MSc. in Architecture De‐ er at AP. Ater a Bachelor’s Degree in cently graduated with a Masters in joined in 2015 as markeing and studied at Sacred Heart College in Malta IT manager. He obtained a ceriicate sign and Engineering at Granada’s Higher Interpreing and Communicaion at Structural Engineering from the Univer‐ communicaions coordi nator, ater and spent a year at Luther College in in Autocad sotware course at MCAST Technical School of Architecture and a IULM University in Milan, she read for sity of Malta, where she was involved in her MA in Architecture at Politecnico the US. Before joining AP in 1993, she and a Computer Technican ceriicate PGDip in Fine Art Photography at the Uni‐ a MA in Translaion and Communica‐ numerous aciviies including occupy‐ di Torino, Italy and a Post‐Graduate studied Hotel Management at the at ICE Malta. He is currently following an versity of Granada, Spain. As a photogra‐ ion also at IULM University in Milan. ing the roles of President of SACES, edi‐ Master in Markeing & Communicaions Insitute of Tourism Studies in Malta. MCSA Windows Server course. pher, he collaborated with The New York tor of the magazine SACES Review. at the Sole24Ore Business School in Times and Docomomo amongst others. Milan, Italy.
ANNe MARIe MAGRI FeDeRICA CAlIó NeIl NAVARRO FRANCeSCO GeRBAUDI StePHANIe BORG BARBARA VANeSSA FARRUGIA is an architect at AP. She graduated in Federica Calió is a structural engineer at is IT and H&S manager at AP. Ater com‐ is interior architect at AP. He studied is interior architect at AP. She read for Architecture and Civil Engineering at AP. She read for Master’s degree in Build‐ pleing his Architecture studies at the Architecture at I.U.A.V. in Venice, Italy, is accounts oicer at AP. She read for a BE&A (Hons) in Architecture and Civil the University of Malta and read for a ing Engineering and Architecture from University of Malta he qualiied as Mi‐ and collaborated with well‐known irms a BA in Business Administraion at the Engineering at University of Malta. She MSc. in Environmental Design in Shef‐ the University of Catania, Italy, as well as crosot Ceriied System Engineer and like Antonio Citerio and Patricia Viel. He European University Malta Centre. is currently working on a number of ield University, UK. Before joining AP, a Master’s in Architectural Heritage from Cisco Ceriied Network Associate. co‐founded the architectural pracice Before joining AP, she gained vast residenial projects which she handles she gained experience in mulidisci‐ the Technical University of Cartagena, QuotaZero. He also lectures at I.E.D. experience as an accountant working from preliminary design stage through plinary environments in Malta, United Murcia, Spain. Her work focuses on struc‐ (European Insitute of Design) in Venice. for local and internaional established to the construcion and inishes stages. Kingdom and Africa. tural intervenions on built heritage. companies.
NIGel BAlDACCHINO RItA MANNANOVA CHARleS SCIBeRRAS eDWARD CUSCHIeRI JUlIAN BeeCH is an architect at AP. He read for a BE&A is an architect at AP. She read for a MSc. is a structural engineer at AP. He studied is a design director at AP. He studied at is an architectural and structural (Hons) in Architecture and Civil Engi‐ in Architecture and Urban Design at the at University of Malta and University of the Kent Insitute of Art & Design, U.K., engineering assistant at AP. He neering at the University of Malta. He Techincal Universita of Riga, Latvia and Surrey, U.K. where he read for a MSc. and before joining AP he worked with studied Civil Engineering at the focuses on conceptual design for both joined AP in 2015, working on a number in Structural Engineering. He joined design irms in London and Milan. He University of Manchester, U.K. and residenial and commercial projects. of large scale projects including the new AP in 2004 and he is responsible for has a vast amount of experience in both has vast experience as an Autocad GO Technical Centre. the structural design of a number architecture and interior design. Technician. Before joining AP he of projects, both residenial and worked for internaional companies commercial. in the U.K. and Germany.
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Alberto Miceli‐Farrugia (director at AP unil Farrugia, Elyes Hasni, Emma Hogg, Emma Garcia, Lisa Aquilina, Lisa Maria Enzehofer, Ruben Formosa, Rune Bo Jakobsen, Sam 2017) Adrian Mamo, Alberto Dominguez, Marie Magro, Enrico Genile, Erica Mulvihill, Livia Tani, Luca Caruso, Ludo Marrink, Felice, Samuel Bonello, Sandra Mifsud, Alberto Favaro, Alexandra Mitelstadt, Erik Venekamp, Erika Bondin Micalizzi, Luella Lee Galea, Luis Rodriguez Lopez, Luke Saniago Sánchez Lindell, Sarah Calleja, Alexia Rausi, Alexia Mercieca, Alessandra Fabio Bonazzi Bonaca, Fabrizio Colmegna, Sciberras, Maddalena Secat, Maïté Thibaut Sebasian Tani Burlo, Sebasiano Nassini, Gallo, Amadeo Mifsud, André Mangion, Feriel Lejri, Flavio Dell’Aquila, Frances de Maisières, Majka Mikulska, Manatosh Sean Mallia, Simon Grech, Simona Barzacchi, Andrea Cesaroni, Andrew Scicluna, Ann Phillips, Francesca Cremona, Francesco Dey, Maria Mercieca, Maria Mifsud, Marie Simone Sponselee, Susana Carrero Garcia, Dingli, Anna Horvarth, Anna Maria Gallo, Lanzalaco, Franz Zahra, Gabriel Pop, George Louise Musumeci, Marielle Merlino, Marion Sinzo Aurelien, Simone Zammit, Stephanie Anthea Ellul, Antoine Mallia, Antonella Manev, Giovanni Giardina, Greta Caruana Trobolet, Marlene Scheuringer, Mark Sophie Mathai, Tabitha Mifsud, Tanja Delrio, Antonio Giofre, Agusín Antonio Smith, Heleen Sijsen, Herman Calleja, Idoia Beaie, Marina Abela, Mathew Mercieca, Panajotovic, Theo Kirn, Therese Debono, Pérez Marugán, Arjaan Speelman, Arnita Mendez, Ira Miodragovic, Iria Santomé Mathew Micallef, Mathias Hammargren, Thomas Fourcat, Tiziana Doli, Tom Van Dzelme, Brita Daugaard, Carmen Fuster Marinez, Irina Kuznetsova, Irina Tanase, Melanie Vella Croker, Mehul Patel, Michael Malderen, Vanja Larberg, Victoria Aimone, Benitez, Carmen Ligorio, Caterina Murri, Isabel Molero Casado, Ivana Krvavica, Ivana Dillon, Michael Lanfranco, Michael Pace, Vladislav Kostadnov, William‐Au‐Yeng, Zoe Céline Théry, Charline Fournot, Chris Brifa, Vujic, Jan Klein, Javi Molina, Jelena Stambolic, Michael Trapani Galea, Mona Ismael, Rousseau. Chris Micallef, Chrisian Daesh, Chrisine Jelena Tomic, Jefrey Scerri, Jens Bruenslow, Mohammed Elaida, Monica Daza, Monica Kronke, Clare Brincat, Costanino Spiteri, Jesmond Camilleri, Jesus Roman Rios, Jevon Xiao, Monika Kubica, Monique Calleja, Daine Pranaityte, David Cassar, David Vella, Jing Yao Xu, Joanna Eismont, Joanna Nadine Formosa, Nathalie Wong, Neelam Buhagiar, Daniel Borg, Daniel Darmanin, Spiteri Staines, Josephine Magro, Julian Pail, Nicola Buhagiar, Nicole Holthause, Daniel Pace, Daniel Scerri, Dawn Fearne, Drago, Julian Vassallo, Jurien van der Rakt, Nicolo Bencini, Nina Haing, Nyal Xuereb, Debby de Domenico, Donatella Ciappara, Jusin Mizzi, Jusin Spiteri, Karl Chetcui, Nunzia Mariello, Paola Agius, Paula Curmi, Dorita Scicluna, Domenico Giofre, Doris Karl Genovese, Karol Grygolec, Keesje Pavel Tsolov, Peter Brincat, Peter Valenino, Rainer, Drazen Krvavica, Edwin Larkens, Avis, Kenneth Rausi, Kevin Micallef, Kira Priyatosh Dey, Reuben Lauier, Rita Elaine Stefania Farrugia, Elaine Bonavia, Sciberras, Lara Camilleri, Lara Muscat, Laura Mannanova, Robert Percy, Robert Xuereb Elena Litau, Elisa Andrei, Ella Miceli‐ Gazzola, Lea Schroeder, Lena Janssen, Lidia Archer, Roberta Tabone, Roman Schoggl, 15 AP IN VAllettA
17 AP in Valletta FROM ARCHIteCtURe PROJeCt tO AP VAllettA leGeND 24 16 15 1 17 Over the years, we had the opportunity to design and execute a substantial number of projects City Gate, Parliament Building and Opera House (with RPBW) 14 in the city of Valletta, a UNeSCO world heritage site since 1980. AP Valletta is synonymous with Bus Terminus 2 18 the city’s major cultural projects which have contributed to the twentieth and twenty irst century Phoenicia Hotel 3 Barrakka Lit 4 13 development of the city and include the legacy of the 2018 european Capital of Culture. these 12 projects are testimony to our inherent dedication to heritage and ongoing ambition to bring Malta Stock Exchange 5 19 11 St. Ursula Street Apartment 6 10 clients, sites, concepts and construction together in a sustainable environment. 9 Oice of the Prime Minister 7 22 3 8 Corporate Oices 8 1 7 6 Residence at St Barbara’s Basions 9 5 2 Corporate Oices 10 4 In 1991, we started with the name, Architecture Project, a man‐ We see our mission as similar to that of the alchemist whose as well as research projects such as Novelleta, presented at the Republic Street Paving 11 ifesto in the Modernist tradiion declaring the urgent need for erstwhile research was aimed at convering lead into gold. Like London Fesival of Architecture and at La Galerie d’Architecture a project to give new energy to Maltese architecture. At that any other human acivity, the ingredients of Architecture are in Paris, a coninuous, cyclical and open‐ended urban proposi‐ Café Cordina 12 moment in history, though, Modernism was on its last legs and oten restricive and mundane, but our goal is to combine them ion for the city. As a pracice we are also physically linked to our Mamo TCV Oices 13 the isolaion of the island started to become a thing of the past. in such a way that the end result is lited out of the basic sphere, city as we live, breathe and work in Valleta in a seventeenth‐ Marks & Spencer Outlet 14 So, while Architecture Project, or AP, began to contribute to the provides coninuity with the valuable Architecture of the past century building that we are currently transforming into a cre‐ 20 awareness of Architecture which began to lourish again on the and is invested with the quality of imelessness. aive cluster, bringing architecture and design, food and digital Manoel Theatre 15 island, the context of the original mission was transformed ir‐ fabricaion, together. Ganado Advocates 16 reversibly. AP has always been prepared for change, and has This is best relected in the relaionship that the pracice has Casa Valdina 17 remained, as a result, fresh and catchy, albeit more ambiguous. maintained with its city, Valleta, for more than twenty years. At ‘The idea of Valleta’ becomes a central tenet of the story of Having specialised in restoraion and historic contexts from the this ime, we are looking forward to coninuing our story and to Architecture Project. Valleta as a Renaissance city, is an impor‐ AP Valleta Cluster 18 onset, the lessons of the past have been relentlessly absorbed connect the ‘Architecture Project’ or ‘AP’ name directly with the tant example of the Architect’s role in designing the ‘Ideal City’ Windmill Street Apartment 19 by this philosophy and coninuity is the essence of the pracice. city. The name requires something memorable and inspiring that – a city concerned with lasing beauty and funcionality, to be Valleta Waterfront 20 21 23 is capable of creaing memories in the future. Our story helps enjoyed by all. As a pracice we are eager to persevere in this While working in an aggressive construcion industry that con‐ construct such memories. endeavour to (re)develop the model of a renaissance city into Malta Mariime Authority Centre (now EASO) 21 stantly provokes change in order to remain buoyant, AP bears a model city of the future, with Valleta as a laboratory for new St. John’s Co Cathedral Museum 22 As a pracice we have a strong link with Valleta as we have daily witness not only to the ceaseless birth of new structures ideas. Dock1 23 and the death of old ones, but, above all, to the survival of that maintained and developed its very fabric though a series of which has intrinsic value and contributes to the well‐being of projects like the Barrakka Lit, the new museum at St John’s Co‐ It is iing then that we now choose to become AP Valleta. St. Paul’s Pro‐Cathedral 24 society, by forming part of its heritage and creaing its idenity. Cathedral and the restoraion of St. Paul’s Anglican Cathedral,
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Client Awards Photo credits Grand Harbour Regeneration Corporation Winner, cat. A, Din L Art Helwa Architectural Luis Rodriguez Lopez Heritage Award 2015. Charles Sciberras Location Cospicua, Malta Silver Medal, overall categories, Din L Art Helwa Architectural Heritage Award 2015. Project dates 2009‐2015 Shortlisted, Cat. Landscape Projects, The Plan Award 2016. Project value € 8.5 million
The Cotonera Regeneraion project, by the Misraħ Gavino Gulia is retained as an open visitors. From here you could go either of aspect of the landscaping project. NEPTUME Government of Malta and supported by funds piazza, with the removal of the gate and wall and three ways: across the new connecing bridge, (No‐Discharge Energy‐Eicient Prototype for from the European Union, aims at improving the it now extends to the water’s edge. Its landside spanning 45 metres over the creek into Senglea, the Treatment of Urban Municipal Eluent) is a Three Ciies area and its waterfront, with Dock 1 perimeter is lined with shops and bars, turning entering a stepped plaza, which again is set research project done in collaboraion between to be considered a criical nodal‐link in achieving the space into an established town‐centre and to be acivated as an open cultural space (the AP, the Biology Department at the University of sustainable regeneraion of the whole area. gateway for visitors and locals to access either Senglea side is part of another phase of the Malta, Argoi Botanical Gardens and the Water side of the waterfront. regeneraion plan); coninue through the dunes Services Corporaion (WSC), which consists In 2008 the Maltese government adopted along the Cospicua waterfront; or ascend, of a wastewater treatment plant that puriies the landscaping phase of AP’s masterplan for Each node is linked through the waterfront past the Phytoremediaion Tanks (see below), municipal waste from local sources. This iltered the area. Unil the landscaping project was and street level promenade; a series of towards the belvedere, from where you obtain wastewater is now it for use as irrigaion for the implemented, the waterfront was walled of to lawned dunes, rising and disappearing into uninterrupted views of Dock1, facing Senglea. surrounding vegetaion and landscape. the public – the big closed red gate at Misraħ laid paths, creaing iny pockets of public yet Gavino Gulia marked the disuse of the dock. personal spaces, with the use of designed Below the belvedere is storage space for local The Dock1 landscaping project has been in the For any regeneraion to commence, both public‐furniture; steel strapped wooden beam mariime acivity, and by the water’s edge making for a long ime. Through dialogue with physically and socially, the removal of barriers to benches; concrete cubed seaing and tables; a landing plaform and waiing area for the the local councils, local businesses, traders the waterfront was of the utmost importance. all elements recalling the dockyard’s long various ferries servicing the area. and NGOs, the project reads, as it should, as This social emphasis of urban regeneraion industrial idenity. a reacive design sensiive to the needs of a is at the core of this landscaping project. The Further along the waterfront, a yellow steel community and place, that for decades has Creek once again unites, rather than divides, Triq ix‐Xat ta’ Bormla runs the path to the framed pavilion with planters at its base creates sufered a decline in prosperity. the residenial quarters of the Three Ciies, Cospicua waterfront and Piazza Paolino a natural creeper‐canopy over diners. through a coninuous 2.5km long promenade, Vassallo. Unlike the more tradiional funcion linking Senglea’s and Vitoriosa’s waterfronts of Misraħ Gavino Gulia, this plaza with the The promenade coninues towards the Birgu with gardens and public spaces, retaining the old Rialto Cinema, Socjeta’ Filarmonika San Waterfront, via Xat ir‐ Risq, past Vault no.0 industrial heritage element of the dockyard. The Ġorġ (band/social‐club), and other bars, is an and a new public convenience, arriving at the landscaping of the waterfront and public spaces opportune space to host social and cultural Freedom Monument and the steps of the around it can be viewed as a series of nodes events, becoming a prime public cultural church of St. Lawrence. Vault no.0 houses (space of urban‐gravitas). space, appealing to the locals as well as other NEPTUME, which forms part of the sustainable 23 Waterfronts & Urban Landscapes
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Client VISET (Malta) plc
Location Valletta, Malta
Project dates 1999 ‐ 2006
Project value € 30.5 million
Awards Philippe Rotthier European Prize for Architecture, Catalogue Listing 2011.
World Architecture Community 4th Cycle Winners, 2009.
European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage, Europa Nostra Awards, Medal, 2006.
Din l‐Art Helwa Prize for Architectural Heritage (DLH) 2005, 1st Prize.
Environment Planning Awards (MEPA), Award for Conservation 2005.
Photo credits David Pisani
27 Waterfronts & Urban Landscapes
The inserion of a new cruise passenger at the The lines of the various lows of people in foot of the Baroque Pinto Stores, develops on transit provided the core dimensions of the the genus loci of Valleta adding yet another project. This network of connecions was layer to the rich historic straiicaion of the then translated into areas, and subsequently Grand Harbour. It will have implicaions on into volumes required by the programme. the organizaion of commercial aciviies The site is perceived as a “buildscape”, which in the town, and contribute to the creaion comes into contact with the water at various of a new image of the entrance to the stages, depending on the type of low that is harbour. The project for the construcion of cuing through it. The bridges are conceived a sea passenger terminal aims at reviving the as a coninuaion of the landscape, and tradiional acivity of the area which is that of not as an aricle itself. In fact all buildings, the ‘gate’ to the islands and area of exchange pedestrian walkways, bridges and quays of materials and ideas. follow this coninuity concept.
Pinto Stores was selected as an ideal A “stone carpet” is laid over the landscaping, locaion for the terminal since it consitutes buildings and the bridges, and is cut at various an important part of the historic waterfront, points depending on level diferences: providing an excepionally beauiful seing. ramping above the water and alongside the The strength of this waterfront lies in the water. The stone surface covering the steel unique views it ofers on entering the structure allows its structural counterpart to Grand Harbour. As opposed to arrival by be exposed at various points not as a separate plane, the tradiional approach by sea element, but rather as one whose accent involves closer contact with the urban highlights the extensive urban surface. environment, the importance of Pinto Stores as a inal desinaion encouraging the pedestrianisaion of the enire waterfront.
29 Waterfronts & Urban Landscapes VAllettA eNtRANCe PROJeCt
Client Government of Malta
Role Associate Architect with Renzo Piano Building Workshop
Location Valletta, Malta
Project dates 2008‐2014
Project value € 62 million
Photo credits Luis Rodriguez Lopez
CItY GAte The gate is now open to the sky. The road crossing above has been demolished and two The bridge which leads people in through large and gently sloped stairs, reminiscent the city gate and into Freedom Square, has of the dramaic staircases lanking the gate throughout its history undergone successive before the creaion of Freedom Square, lead enlargements, losing its original funcionality from both St James’ and St John’s Cavaliers as a mechanism which allows people to down to Republic Street. The gate and ditch experience crossing over into the city. Renzo are connected through a redesigned stair, Piano’s project restores the bridge to its whilst a panoramic elevator will provide the original dimensions of Dingli’s gate of 1633, experience of the depth of the ditch, leading allowing the view of the ditch to become to the protected gardens below. more visible, and creaing a sense of leading people into the city. The structure of the gate is made out of massive stone elements, monumentally The new design aims at retrieving the original shaped and lanked by high, framing blades expression of depth and strength that the of steel, the later underlining the fracture basion walls embody, whilst simultaneously between the past and the present. compressing movement during the crossing.
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OPeN AIR tHeAtRe HOUSe OF PARlIAMeNt
Since a modern opera of convenional The proposal to locate the new Parliament size would not be accomodated within building, the primary democraic insituion the current Opera House site, considering of the Republic of Malta, on the site which today’s requirements for rehearsal, back was known as Freedom Square and served stage faciliies and accessibility, the mainly as a car park, stemmed from the desire renovaion sees the Opera House ruins act to create a vibrant urbanity at the entrance as a framework for a place where outdoor to the city. The new Parliament distances arisic performances may be held. itself from St James Cavalier, allowing the building to retrieve its structural character. The project preserves all the exising stone The new building has been constructed out work and reuses some of the sill exising of two seemingly massive volumes of stone, scatered fragments to complete and supported by silts that recede from the embellish the ruin. A light skin supports a facade to create an impression of suspension surrounding alignment of steel masts and in air. The East block houses mainly the columns. These carry removable walls, chamber and the Speaker’s oice; the West lighing systems, acousic and sound block contains all administraive oices for equipment. When the theatre is not in use, the parliamentary representaives, including place works as an open piazza with a shallow Ministers, the Prime Minister and the stepped seaing deck, totally accessible and Leader of the Opposiion. Both volumes are ofering the view towards the Auberge de separated by a central courtyard, which is Casille, the Churches of Santa Caterina and the main entrance to the building. This court Our Lady of Victories as well as Saint James is shaped in a way to allow views through Cavalier. The new open air theatre caters it from the street of St John’s Cavalier. for an audience of about 1000 spectators. The old railway tunnel is connected to a sunken garden, making this structure amenable for public use while preserving its authenicity and legibility. The Parliament building does not resort to a convenional cooling system, but seeks to make use of heat exchange through pumps, as well as passive cooling for temperature control.
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35 Offices FARRUGIA INVeStMeNtS OFFICeS
Client Awards Farrugia Investments Ltd. Nominated for the Mies van der Rohe Award 2012. Location Valletta, Malta Winner at the INSIDE, World Festival of Interiors in Barcelona, 2011. Project dates 2009 ‐ 2011 Photo credits David Pisani Project value € 1.1 million
The outstanding views of the Grand Harbour, This logisical requirement, together with which penetrate every room of this presigious the client’s wish to achieve added‐value old property at St. Barbara’s Basion, through a bold formal statement, was the determined the neutral materiality and tones catalyst for the design of the ‘double‐helix’ that are the basis of this rehabilitaion project. stair structure which is conceived as one sculptural mass combining two separate The brief centered on three major elements. staircases leading to both oice and The irst was the creaion of an oice residenial levels independently. The design space which would include all the qualiies is a re‐interpretaion of the helical structure, necessary for a contemporary working space; yet its dark, almost eerie atmospheric quality light, clarity, comfort and ease of access. The is the real unique quality of this architectural second was the creaion of a high end, luxury element. The lighing in the space is minimal residenial space which would be located on and unobtrusive and its dimness merely the uppermost level of the building. The third guides the visitor through the space rather task required providing separate entrances than actually illing the area with light. to accommodate for these two funcions Moreover, the source of light is hidden so of the building. Planning regulaions require that the resuling glow creates a sensaion that access to premises with diferent uses of walking through a giant tree bark, or is via separate entrances, and therefore the cavernous passageway, where natural light refurbishment of the building needed to has all but been cut out. address this issue.
37 Offices MAltA MARItIMe CeNtRe (now eASO)
Client Malta Maritime Authority, VISET (Malta) plc.
Location Marsa, Malta
Project dates 2001 ‐ 2007
Project value ELEVATION € 7.0 million
Award The European Center for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies, Europe 40 Under 40 Award, 2009.
Photo credits David Pisani
The project involves the construcion of an oice complex to house both the oices of the Malta Mariime Authority and those of other mariime related eniies. The building responds to the harsh environment created by the busy thoroughfare of Pinto Road by having its entrance facing the harbour thereby opening itself up to natural light of its south facing orientaion. A spine of service spaces placed just behind this north facing street façade further enhances this detachment. Louvered screens on the south facades protect the glazed surfaces from the summer sun whilst allowing the rays at GROUND FLOOR PLAN a lower incidence to penetrate in winter. The overall form of the building relects the building program with a central block housing the main entrance and principal funcions, acing as a distributor to the two wings. 39 Offices tHe MAltA StOCK eXCHANGe
Client Award Malta Stock Exchange Nominated for the Mies van der Rohe Award, 2003. Location Valletta, Malta Photo credits Project dates David Pisani 1994 ‐ 2003
Project value € 4.6 million
The Malta Stock Exchange nowadays is visible and indicates the possibility that operates from a nineteenth century the structure may be removed at any ime garrison chapel. leaving the whole of the original fabric intact.
Siing on the very edge of a tunnel‐ridden As a result of the inserion of a steel basion, the building originally consisted of a lightweight ridge housing an innovaive single large void roofed over with a imber‐ cooling system, a drop of approximately trussed structure. The intervenion primarily seven degrees Celsius has been achieved in consisted of two parallel oice wings running the internal environment without the use of along the interior length of the building and convenional air‐condiioning systems. The terminaing in circulaion towers. These efect is one of natural coolness and provides arms are constructed uilising a visible steel a welcome relief from the hot siling heat post and lintel structure with glass pariions, that characterises Valleta throughout the whilst open oice spaces bridge across, summer months. below the restored imber trussed roof. Viewed from outside, apart from the changes Extensive work was carried out to the to the roof, there is litle to suggest that the imber roof. The restoraion included re‐ old garrison chapel, a major component of modeling of the imber heads with steel the buildings and palaces that consitute shoes, strengthening of the botom tensile Casille Place, now contains an inserted steel members with the addiion of steel ies and and glass building providing six loors of a complete re‐building of the roof structure. useful oice space.
A disincion is created between the original masonry walls and the inserted structure. The steel bracing at the end of each wing
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43 Culture St. JOHN’S CO CAtHeDRAl MUSeUM
Client Project value Saint John’s Co Cathedral Foundation n.a.
Location Awards Valletta, Malta Shortlisted for AR MIPIM Future Projects Awards, 2018, culture category Project dates 2012 ‐ ongoing
When Isabella, Infanta of Spain and Portugal, slabs, gilded sculptural decoraion, and and the Governor of the Netherlands, painings by arists of the calibre of Maia collaborated in the early 1620s with Peter Prei and Caravaggio. Paul Rubens to design a set of tapestries that would describe the Triumph of the The twenty‐nine tapestries were hung in the Eucharist, this was conceived primarily as Cathedral every year on the feast of St John, a markeing tool to counter the onslaught but centuries of handling, inappropriate of the Reformaion and was the start of a storage and harmful lighing and climate fascinaing story. condiions had let their toll on these rich but delicate images made from silk and silver and The set of monumental tapestries was gold thread. presented by the Infanta to the Monasterio de las Descalzas Reales where they decorated Today, they consitute the only full set of the convent church on important occasions. designs by Rubens in the world, and are More than half a century later, Ramon considered one of the greatest artefacts of Perellos y Roccaful commissioned a full set of the Baroque age. these tapestries as a git to the Co‐Cathedral of St John on his elecion as Grand Master During the last decade this unique set has to the Order, a tradiion that held sway for been undergoing extensive restoraion in the two and a half centuries during which the Michelin, near Brusssels, their town of origin. Order of St John of Jerusalem governed the The Cathedral Museum currently exhibits island of Malta. His intenion was to outshine only six of the tapestries resuling in the loss the gits of all previous Grand Masters, and of the grand narraive that celebrates the to add a sot and sumptuous touch to the glory of the Roman Catholic Church. interior of the church whose walls, vault and loor had been, over the previous decades, AP Valleta was commissioned, in 2012, to covered with polychrome marble sepulchral design the rehabilitaion and extension of 45 Culture
the current museum. Besides restoring and relevance and environment control. reusing the neglected and underuilised It also aims at reviewing and updaing the historical spaces annexed to the Cathedral interface of the building with the public (including a sixteenth centur y cr ypt below the areas around, paricularly the façades oratory that houses the Beheading of St John on Merchants’ Street and St. Lucy Street, by Caravaggio and an eighteenth century providing access for all, reorganising the wing designed by Romano Carapecchia), the circulaion within the museum, improving project intends to design a beauiful stone the internal climate control to cater for the box to house this precious set of tapestries. requirements of the collecions and revising The blank walls, a requirement springing and updaing the exhibiion material to from the need to shut out all harmful natural provide for an improved educaional and light in the hall, measure 50m in length enjoyable experience for visitors. and 12m in height and are ariculated with the classical, albeit forgoten, use of the The Foundaion is also keen to ensure the niche and rotated pilaster. The later have coninuing relevance of these artefacts reducing dimensions and proporions to from the past in today’s world. To this end create a melodic relief, the shadows of which the project also includes the seing up of also form a false perspecive that gives the a Caravaggio Centre in the spaces adjacent illusion of depth and transparency. The end to the Oratory that houses the Caravaggio’s efect is that of a monumental reliquary Beheading of St John. The Centre will contain containing the mysical narraive describing the St Jerome also by Caravaggio and is the principle mystery of the Catholic faith. designed to house temporary exhibiions, arists’ residencies, conferences and Access to the Tapestry Hall is through lectures inspired by the contribuion of this a circular stone staircase supported by great arist to the history of Art. what looks like a giant stone bell. Both this structure and the asymmetrical dome Like all the mulifarious addiions to the that roofs over the space containing the Cathedral complex that have added layer Cappella Ardente are the product of upon layer of spiritually charged spaces the marriage between tradiional stone to the premises, this new extension is stereotomy construcion techniques and conceived to work hand in hand with contemporary parametric design methods. the precious objects belonging to the The project was iniiated by the St John’s treasury of the church in order to create a Museum Foundaion for the purpose of contemporary yet imeless experience for providing a contemporary, state‐of‐the‐art the visitor. environment for the precious collecions that are housed by the current premises. These are lacking in space, museographic 47 Culture MANOel tHeAtRe
Client Project value Manoel Theatre Management Committee € 7 million (current phase)
Role Photo credits Lead Architects and Structural Engineers David Pisani
Location Valletta, Malta
Project dates 1993 ‐ ongoing
The Manoel Theatre and its annexes are Theatre’s historical fabric and also allowed to situated in the heart of Valleta. The annexes, extend the performance season to summer which consist of a series of 18th century houses months. As part of this project the seaing in abuing the theatre party walls, were acquired the stalls has been changed with the removal at various stages of its history with a view to of the central aisle and the re‐introducion using them to house aciviies associated with of parterre boxes along the sides. This new the theatre funcion. In the late 1990s, the seaing aims at recreaing the inimacy Theatre embarked on a refurbishment and typical of the original 18th century baroque expansion programme on the basis of master theatre. AP is also currently re organising the plan formulated by AP, which added a new bar administraive block and the refurbishment and foyer ited into the neighbouring courtyard of the icket oice as well as public ameniies, of Palazzo Bonici, covered with an innovaive and the restoraion of the main entrance. The mobile roof. The projects also included the theatre has been modiied several imes to creaion of a theatre museum, the reallocaion adapt to new performance requirements as and redesign of the icket booking oices, the well as to relect various economic and cultural creaion and iing out of a specialized book and realiies. Yet it has managed to preserve record shop as well as three studio apartments most of its iniial qualiies, thus making it one for visiing arists, all contribuing to generate of the oldest surviving Baroque theatres. addiional revenue for the theatre. Over the Today’s project inscribes itself in this historical years, AP was also entrusted with a number of coninuum and strives to maintain the balance restoraion intevenions and, more recently, between the preservaion of the theatre’s rich with the installaion of a new hybrid climate heritage and its necessary transformaion to control system in the baroque auditorium, relect contemporary values. The architectural which has been restored to its original layout. challenge is now to ensure the successful cohabitaion of the monument with its The installaion of a new climate control funcions as a live performance space. system has ensured the preservaion of the
49 Culture SHelteR FOR 12tH CeNtURY CHURCHeS
Client Delegation of the European Commission in Ethiopia
Location Lalibela, Ethiopia
Project dates 1999
Project value n.a.
Awards International competition, honourable ELEVATION mention
AP Valleta in collaboraion with Adams Kara “Architecture Project proposed a lightweight Taylor (London) Brian Ford and Associates construcion to create a temporary roof over and Franck Franjou (Paris) was amongst the the site. In deference to the tellurian aura eight irms selected to paricipate in the of these ancient monuments, the form of internaional compeiion for the design of the shelters accentuates the way that this a temporary shelter for ive twelth century troglodyte architecture blends in with the churches in Lalibela, Ethiopia. The project landscape. A 3D aluminium structure carrying was conceived as a semi‐translucent ‘cloud’ a white iberglass canopy, the ephemeral roof loaing above the sacred site in such a way looks more like a cloud than a clearly deined as to preserve the coninuity between the object. It difers from a texile hood in that monument and the landscape out of which it its muliple layers ofer improved difusion was carved. of daylight and beter insulaion against cold at night. The guardian clouds are ied to steel masts anchored in massifs of reinforced concrete.”
(L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui, #340, May/ June 2002).
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53 Residential - New Build VIllAe URBANAe
Client Smart City Malta
Location Smart City Malta
Project dates 2019 ‐ Ongoing
Project value n.a.
“A white house set like a dice in a rock already and working community. On an urban venerable with the scars of wind and water.” scale, these streets will act as a bufer‐zone between the more public‐oriented areas and — Lawrence Durrell, Prospero’s Cell the quieter residenial enclave of the Villae Urbanae. Villae Urbanae is set within the single most relevant urban iniiaive taking place south of The overall urban intent is to create a gradient the Grand Harbour of Valleta in Malta and of resident‐oriented spaces in consonance of which it forms a part of. The contribuion with the planned surrounding buildings. It of the masterplan to the cultural, social and accommodates natural light, reserves more economic development of this region cannot space for landscaping, the gradaion of noise be underesimated. The masterplan reaches levels and provides leisurely pedestrian out to the surrounding communiies in the movement. vicinity of the development and serves as an anchor by providing a range of typologies and Once the greatest naval base of the world, public shared space for the local community. Malta has played an important role in the development of military architecture, The Villae Urbanae also consider and its magniicent tradiion of architectural integrate themselves with other large‐scale expression fashioned by the Knights of St faciliies being planned for the same area. A John has shaped the Maltese skyline which network of pedestrian streets is introduced relects the role she has played in history. for the day‐to‐day needs of the residenial 55 Residential - New Build
Briish 19th century foriicaions in Malta included community, as a form of intangible heritage which “We are upon a bare promontory… 22000 sqm. Internal vehicular streets, integrated the coastal forts and bateries built to ire at enemy underpins the idenity of the Maltese islands. Intangible with thelandscaping that overwhelms the buildings, ‘a white house set like a dice on a rock ships approaching the harbour and to prevent an heritage exists by virtue of its being recognised by the … with its beauiful clean surface of metamorphic cover 11000sqm. The villas are arranged in eleven enemy from obtaining a fooing on the shore. Fort St. community that creates, maintains and transmits it. stone covered in olive and ilex. This is become typologies, all with seaviews, with a north‐south already venerable with the scars of wind and water’ Rocco which commands the promontory overlooking The Villae Urbanae are contained within this envelope our unregreted home,” wrote Lawrence Durrell orientaion and front and back gardens. the variety —lawrence Durrell, Prospero’s Cell the Villae Urbanae was one of these structures. and in so doing emphasis its existence. in Prospero’s Cell, his travel memoirs about how in housing types is a result of the reacive treatment together with his family he spent four youthful years to their unique seing below the abstract membrane Construcion of the Fort was completed in 1878. It The islet of Nisida lies to the north of Naples. It was a on Corfu, an island jewel with beauty to match its that forms above their speciic locaion and that was occupied mainly by three‐gun emplacements on favoured spot for holidays during the Roman era, as fascinaing history. Lawrence ished, drank, and lived dictates their posiion, height and volume. which 38‐ton guns were mounted. The Fort was later tesiied by ruins of villas and Cicero’s wriings of his in the years leading up to World War II, sheltered from improved… “Projecing above every other part of the visit there to the villa of Brutus. the tumult that was enguling Europe, unil inally he The villas are brought together by indigenous plant Fort, the keep shows conspicuously on the skyline and could ignore the world no longer. But he never forgot species that contain characterisics such as tolerance forms an excellent mark for ships to ire at. This evil can Villas for Cicero funcioned as much more than passive the wonders of Corfu, captured so beauifully in his to sea spray and wind. Hardy trees will provide shade be modiied by removing the upper stone parapet and backdrops to his aciviies. They provided a means brilliant memoir. whereas shrubbery adds to the individual personality banquete, which are quite useless, and cuing them to nurture his poliical image both in the real world of each property, to beauify the villa’s gardens in down to the level of the roof…”. described in his leters and in literature. The villa or With his expansive, all‐encompassing opening line, terms of colour, scent and texture. country house of Cicero’s days included litle farming. somewhere between Calabria and Corfu the blue The reach of these guns, so important in providing The term villa ‐ or villa urbana ‐ then suggested libraries, really begins, Durrell takes us out of ourselves and defence in the past, is a form of intangible heritage baths, collecions of works of art and rooms for study along with him as he crosses into Greek waters that creates a protecive imaginary envelope shaped and entertainment. The gardens were intended to be from the heel of Italy and into a new life of light and by its projecion that forms a theoreical secondary especially delighful. heat. Reading it on a gloomy winter aternoon in the skyline worthy of preservaion. northern hemisphere is like injecing the grey sky with On his summer vacaions, Cicero oten reired to his vivid blues and emeralds. This is representaive of past military technologies villa to avoid the great heat of the city of Rome. Its and should be preserved not merely as a cultural good residenial quarters were intended to serve the villa’s The Urban Villas project covers a site area of of excepional value, since it thrives and depends on owner and provide comforts similar to those of a city approximately 33000sqm and includes 76 villas with the knowledge of history, passed on to the rest of the dwelling. a footprint of 14000sqm and a gross loor area of
57 Residential - New Build MADlIeNA VIllA
Client Private
Location Madliena, Malta
Project dates 2004‐2012
Project value n.a.
Photo credits Luis Rodriguez Lopez
This villa is perched on the ridge of a hill that dedicated. The weather itself, manifested by looks out towards the sea. It was designed the sky over the horizon which is omnipresent to saisfy the clients’ yearning for space in this outward looking structure, plunges and freedom, to create the possibility of the building into its changing moods, sudden wandering through a succession of spaces lashes of light and subtle gradaion of colour. that spring as though spontaneously from the The experience of the landscape is changed lie of the land. These spaces fuse inextricably by this new inserion into the countryside. with the surrounding countryside and The building, in turn, exploits its surroundings, the rubble walls and ields that create the responds to it, blends with it and yet sill stands tradiional terraced parcelling of the plot. out in contrast, a iny tribute to man’s taming Strict physical boundaries are eliminated and of the earth. the blurring of inside and outside is achieved by the introducion of large glazed and louvered openings that all but disappear into the physical fabric of the walls.
The ariculaion of spaces stemming from the brief is enriched by the introducion of a number of intriguing and quirky spaial elements: an inimate inglenook, a pebble drum, concealed steps, a dog’s passage, spiral passages, loor windows. All these details emulate the ininite variety of Nature, to whose comforing presence this abode is 59 Residential - New Build KAPPARA VIllA
Client Private
Location Kappara, Malta
Project dates 1998 ‐ 2002
Project value n.a.
Photo credits David Pisani
Ancient texts oten describe the authors’ aestheic qualiies. The plan itself is dictated admiraion for techniques, used by by a structural order requiring that vaulted contemporary builders and cratsmen, spaces balance each other while butresses aimed at creaing the percepion of integrity are exploited to house the secondary, through a carefully crated joining of a ‘servant’ spaces such as the staircases, muliplicity of parts. Oten, the impression pantry, guest bathrooms etc. The result is a of natural cohesion was described as an giant order aqueduct‐like structure that runs essenial ingredient for a building to resemble like as longitudinal spine through the building, a work of Nature (and that therefore had becoming two stories high on the inner no (chronological) imescale atached to it). courtyard side of the house and containing Lamarine, on his visit to Malta, noted that the main entrance and wardrobe on the main the Maltese built landscape. façade. The volumes and shell‐like ribbed vaults are perfectly modelled as a result “Looks as if it had been built not stone by stone of zenithal lighing provided by clerestory with cement and sand but as if it had been windows in the main spaces. carved alive and upright out of living rock and set down on earth like a block that had come As a result of the use of tradiional stone from its bosom and as enduring as the earth technologies to span the main spaces of the itself” (Lamarine 1835: p.77). house, the building reads as though carved ‘ex uno lapide’, all of a piece, true to the centuries This house was built enirely of stone. The old pracices that deined the form and spirit loors, walls and ceilings exploit the easily of vernacular architecture. worked local limestone for its structural properies as well as for its symbolic and 61 Residential - New Build GRANNIe NellIe
Client Private
Location San Pawl tat‐Targa, Malta
Project dates 1996 ‐ 2000
Project value n.a.
Found in a mature garden surrounded by pine trees, Grannie Nellie House was designed and built for an elderly lady and her nurse. Using a plan typology based on a repeiive system of parallel stone arches and vaults, all the rooms have been grouped into two parallel spaces of equal width roofed by closely spaced stone arches in the tradiional manner. Whereas in vernacular architecture the segment on both sides of the apex would be in‐illed with the same stone to support a lat roof or loor above, the arches in this house support parallel stone vaults. While clearly reminiscent of vernacular building, the resuling interior volumes have an even stronger direcional character and dignity, over and above that expected in what is otherwise a very simple dwelling.
Another big deviaion from the tradiional type is in the use of deep, hollow service walls to support the vaults and separate the main volumes. Built from the same stone, these service spines vary in width, according to what they enclose: wardrobes and storage spaces, or bathrooms and stairways. 63 ReSIDeNtIAl
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65 Residential - Restoration tHe COACH HOUSe
Client Awards Private Shortlisted for Premju E. L. Galizia, 2018, Architectural quality category Location Balzan, Malta Shortlisted for World Architecture Festival, Amsterdam, 2018, New into Old category Project dates 2011‐20175 Winner, Din L Art Helwa Architectural Heritage Awards, 2017, cat. C Project value n.a. Silver Medal, Din L Art Helwa, 2017, overall categories Photo credits Julian Vassallo and Cyril Sancereau Architectural Heritage (DLH), Architectural Heritage (DLH), Architectural Heritage (DLH), Diploma
The Coach House is located in the historical with Palazzo Bosio. The original property was heart of the town of Balzan. The property is in a dilapidated state, with most apertures on the edge of the Urban Conservaion Area, missing, stone walls without any mortar joints, a situaion which has unfortunately led to the and severe biological growth due to the humid drasic modiicaion of the original context environment resuling from the lack of use and as a result of the immediate proximity of maintenance. In order to turn what used to be recent, mostly insensiive, developments. a one storey service building into a home, an There is litle historical informaion available extension was designed and grated on the about the property, which is thought to perimeter wall of the pre‐exising structure. have always served as a service building connected to the adjacent Palazzo Bosio. The well‐deined approach to the project was, The palazzo was built in the 18th century for irst of all, the restoraion of the fabric of this Vincenzo Bosio, Commandator of the Knights, humble yet historic, valuable property. as his own residenial quarter. The Coach All extensions and their structural House refers to an outer set of buildings intervenions were carried out in a way in immediate adjacency with the palazzo, to ensure the protecion of the exising probably predaing the construcion of the building and the reversibility of new addiions main palazzo. The programme of the project wherever possible. The volume of the main is organised around the need to preserve the extension in fact sits exactly on the perimeter funcional nature of the pre‐exising building of the pre‐exising building. A new staircase, an while accommodaing the requests of the new independent sculptural structure which is self‐ owners. The programme also responded to supporing and constructed from solid steel the pressures on the site from both adjacent plates, was built as a connecion between the development and the historical connecion old and new and their diferent levels. 67 Residential - Restoration VIllA CAStRO
Client Private Photo credits Julian Vassallo and Alex AttardArchitectural Role Heritage (DLH), Diploma Leading Architects in collaboration with Jens Bruenslow
Location Naxxar, Malta
Project dates 2008‐20165
Project value n.a.
Awards Shortlisted for World Architecture Festival 2017, New & Old Category;
Shortlisted for the Barbara Cappochin International Architecture Prize 2017.
Built in the early eighteenth century of materiality, also plays with ime. In fact, on the edge of the historic core of the screens made from American cedar will Naxxar, Villa Castro required extensive acquire over ime a natural protecive paina restoraion works in order to re‐establish of silvery grey blending in with the limestone its original architectural proporions surfaces of the old house. Like all projects and to be revitalised as a family home. involving the rehabilitaion and extension of The exising spaces were organised old structures, ime is an important element accordingly and new necessary elements of which the building is made, both ime past were introduced using a contemporary and ime that is sill to unravel. language. All the extensions were deined and posiioned to compliment and coexist The garden, unfortunately muilated, was with the exising building as much as possible. most likely organised according to the ideals These new volumes have been treated in of classical space composiion witnessed a way to allow maximum light inside while by the orthogonal disposiion of paths that retaining a monolithic appearance form the deine square planted areas. outside, thanks to dense wooden screens. The composiion, based on the contrast 69 Residential - Restoration DINING PAVIlION
Client Award Private 2008, AJ Small Project Award, Shortlisted
Location Photo Credits Zejtun, Malta Alberto Favaro and David Pisani
Project dates Architectural Heritage (DLH), Diploma 2005 ‐ 2007
Project value n.a.
This pavilion‐like structure, that houses rope making for sea vessels. This material an extension to the exising kitchen in withstands harsh external environmental an eighteenth century house, is made of condiions; it is environmentally friendly, aluminium and glass. It is aligned with a visually rich and engages the senses of touch colonnade of slender steel columns that and smell. support a fabric awning providing shade for outdoor dining. Because of its contrasing The forms that have been created in materials and construcion technology, the collaboraion with French arist Aude extension, that is designed like an over‐scale Franjou also play on the natural qualiies porch, does not conlict with the stone walls of the material. The technique adopted for of the exising house and, together with the the sculpture is a variaion of a tapestry canvas canopy, creates a light and airy screen weaving tradiion and involves twising a to the back of the house. lax strand around a heart of hemp, the desired curvature of the branch being In order to accentuate the ephemeral derived from the tension applied by hand qualiies of this addiion in the garden, the during the process. It is then woven onto a shading device that was built to protect folding steel frame. Like trees growing out the south east façade of the extension was of the ground and spreading their tentacle‐ designed as a screen that is operable to allow like branches over the glass surfaces of the maximum vision of the garden during periods kitchen walls, this contemporary sculpture of inclement weather, and maximum shade creates a dialogue between the garden and during the hot season. The screen belongs the kitchen, belonging as it does to both the as much to the garden as to the kitchen. In mineral and the vegetal world. view of this, it was decided to create a vegetal surface, made from hemp and lax, which has a strong tradiion in the long history of 71 RetAIl
73 Retail CAMIlleRI PARIS MODe
Client Camilleri Paris Mode
Location Rabat, Malta
Project dates 2007 ‐ 2009
Project Value n.a.
Photo credits David Pisani
The project brief for the design for a concept used in the design of the space. It was the lifestyle and home decoraion outlet intenion of the designers to create a space emphasized the need for a space which was which actually guided its visitor through it. interacive, funcional and which put forward the idea of constant acivity. The client wanted For this reason, upon entering, the visitor a space that was more than just a showroom, is immediately thrust into an area which they wanted a unique, lexible space, and in runs through the height of every loor, fact referred to it as a ‘workshop’. Above all, allowing them to take in the whole scope of the owners wanted a space that would exploit the interior of the building and an intense all possibiliies to display their products. presence of natural light loods in through the skylight. Next a series of wide staircases, The idea of visual connecivity and areas for designed as such to create an imposing product showcasing was the main priority sensaion, leads the visitors through the for the design team. This kind of combinaion diferent loors creaing an interesing was achieved through various design devices. journey through the various spaces. Design The irst was to use light as an element which features such as recessed windows, sunken would connect the various areas of the space areas and intermediate staircase landings, with each other. In this respect, the lighing create unique display areas which increase intervenions were used to fuse all parts of the sense of variety throughout the space. the building, with their unique uses, into one The oices are situated on each of the loors, uniform workshop. In addiion to this, the and overhang onto the diferent levels to idea of playing with void and solid spaces was create a layering afect.
75 Retail MARKS & SPeNCeR
Client Award Supermarkets (1960) Ltd Nominated for the Mies van der Rohe Award, 2005 Location Valletta, Malta Photo credits David Pisani Project dates 1996 ‐ 2004
Project Value n.a.
Marks and Spencer acquired premises during shopping hours to allow access from across Strait Street, a block away from the one shop to the other and is operated with main commercial thoroughfare of Valleta, a series of mechanical winches and pistons in order to expand its already exising retail which lower the loor, raise the roof and outlet on the main square of the town. It unfold the sides. It is kept closed at all other was envisaged that the new building was to imes, thus resolving the unsuitability of be linked to the exising shop by means of a permanent bridges spanning across the bridge that spans this narrow street which street. has been for many years neglected and let undeveloped. The project was made possible thanks to the narrowness of the street (Strait Street The balcony being an important architectural measuring 3.6m in width) which allows element in the streetscape of Valleta, it the tradiional proporion of the Maltese seemed ideal to reinterpret and recreate balcony (0.9m wide and 2.7m high) to be re‐ this external wooden element to contain the established while spanning across the street connecion between the exising shop and when it is in an open posiion. its extension. This project for a retractable imber balcony located at irst loor level Together with café located at ground level reads as a discreet intervenion with minimal in its shade, and the retail outlet itself, the structural and visual impact on the exising bridge has helped revitalize a run‐down area facade. of the capital city.
The bridge, made of a tradiional wooden and steel construcion, unfolds mechanically 77 Retail AllCOM
Client Allcom plc.
Location St. Julian’s, Malta
Project dates 1999 ‐ 2000
Project Value € 200.000
Photo credits David Pisani
The project for the design of the Allcom Shop The space available is designed as a giant bill‐ in St Julians, a trendy tourisic town that board, or simply as a unique, deep shop win‐ evolved on the traces set out by the original dow, one which is not only visible to passers‐ ishing village and the later Victorian summer by at ground level, but also pedestrians using residenial spa, owes its genesis to the con‐ the irst loor passages and bridge. cept that publicity can serve as a vehicle to lit the urban space of the town to the level A two dimensional surface wraps around the of art. With this in mind, the outer skin of the space, forming a screen on which images are shop is the ‘page’ on which the text guiding projected. The later engulf the whole space the users’ choices will be writen. Excessive and are read both from a distance and from and disorganized ‘text’ was avoided at all close up. Customers, and their shadows, in‐ costs, since this would create chaos and vi‐ teract with these images, becoming part of sual noise, with consequent detrimental ef‐ and paricipaing with them. fects on the potenial atracion of an impor‐ tant market. The generaion of a semanically rich, but grammaically correct, communica‐ ion was therefore of paramount importance in the design of the outlet. But the message had to, at all costs, be ‘loud and clear’.
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81 Hospitality PHOeNICIA HOtel
Client Awards Phoenicia Hotel ‐ Campbell Gray Hotels Winner of Premju E. L. Galizia Award, 2018, Urban Regeneration Location Floriana, Malta Nominated for Mies van der Rohe Award Barcelona, 2019, Restoration and Project dates Rehabilitation 2008 ‐ ongoing Architectural Heritage (DLH), Architectural Heritage (DLH), Diploma Project value €12‐15 million
The Phoenicia Hotel is located at the doorstep of Valleta. In its heyday, it was The extension of the stair towers on the considered the foremost hotel on the facades and the creaion of a copper cornice to Island, being the irst ive star hotel to be unify the 90’s addiions, whose fronispieces built in Malta. Today, with the incepion and roof structures were replaced with sky of the Valleta rehabilitaion exercise, the suites, form part of an overall Masterplan that renovated facility will act as a presigious envisages the requaliicaion of the hotel’s front garden to the new face of the city. grounds. This includes a new pool area that restores the legibility of the hotel’s original The brief aimed at the inserion of this 1930s architecture while drawing the curtain back hotel within the rehabilitaion project for the on the greater city context. An ininity edge area spanning between City Gate, the ex‐bus blurs the boundary between the pool and terminus and Floriana ex‐parade ground. It the sea beyond, and shallow steps running included the restoraion of the facades, the along the whole length of the pool create the renewal of the back‐of‐house, the provision efect of a beach at the foot of the basions. of new terraces on the roof of a new wing housing the spa and the requaliicaion of New structures are invisible, enhancing the the surrounding gardens and pool area, massive scale of the surrounding basions. creaing a contemporary experience paying tribute to both the art deco structure and the 16th century foriicaions.
83 Hospitality Q-BAR
Client DEJA Co. Ltd.
Location Valletta Waterfront, Malta
Project dates 2006 ‐ 2007
Project value n.a.
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B B Inspired by the original warehouse use of the extension of the main bar which is located mid‐eighteenth century Baroque Vaults at beneath it, while the disk jockey stand is a Pinto Stores on the Valleta Waterfront, the speciic funcion housed within a imber concept of the “Q‐bar” became the stacking crate‐like structure. C C of crates into sculptural tower‐like volumes which would sculpt, in a sense, the interior It is the play on colour and texture that allows of the space. By night, the imber batenclad the visitor to follow the workings of the D D structures light up and together with the space rather than the convenional layout inner layer of muli‐coloured iles and the of a bar with its tradiional eaing area, chill‐ E E loor patern of intersecing lines, a city‐like out lounge or disc jockey stand. The visitor is scenography is achieved. lead through the space, disappearing behind the imber towers and reappearing on the The wooden structures, which add various dance loor. The fragmentaion of space horizontal layers at diferent levels, serve to and volume allows the visitor to interact in F F modulate the volume within the bar interior diferent ways with the vault or the original CC BB AA and also house its essenial services. The unique volume, creaing space within a space composiion of the imber volumes guide the and with spaces at diferent heights. visitor through the space, while the lighing of the space provides a new sense of mass with every new ambience it creates. The deiniion of speciic areas within the bar is vague and open to interpretaion and the dominaing imber structure and texture prevail over the use of the speciic areas. For example, the upper seaing area is seen as an 85 Hospitality XARA PAlACe
Client Xara Palace Hotel
Location Mdina, Malta
Project dates 1995 ‐ 1997
Project value n.a.
Photo credits David Pisani
The project for the restoraion of an During the total renovaion of the historic building in the heart of the Siculo‐ premises various archaeological studies Norman foriied hill‐top city of Mdina, were undertaken in collaboraion with deals primarily with the refurbishment of the Museums Department. the building to create a charming hotel with seventeen suites overlooking the Maltese landscape. 87 INFRAStRUCtURe
89 Infrastructure FARSONS NeW BReWHOUSe
Client Award Simonds Farsons Cisk plc World Architecture Festival Singapore shortlisted, 2013
Location Photo credits Mriehel, Malta Kurt Arrigo
Project dates 2006 ‐ 2013
Project value €4.5 million
With the excepion of wineries, architectural maintains its high quality standards, meets wrapped in an unassuming straighforward patronage within the food and drink industry producion demands and exploits new export mulilayered industrial skin, a protecive is generally small in comparison to other opportuniies. shell accommodaing the various building manufacturing works. Recent years have services while simultaneously assising however seen the wine industry worldwide The new Farsons brewhall builds on the the environmental control of the interiors. recognise the signiicance of good design in company’s tradiional values (“All the best Cooling is assisted through natural venilaion communicaing the philosophy and status from Farsons”) and mission (to produce with the brewhall itself becoming a tangible and, of equal importance, the regional best quality beverages for local and foreign expression of this strategy. character of the vinters and as a consequence, consumpion). It also parially restores of their wines. Since its formaion 80 years the psychological and moral connecion The brewhall responds to its seing and ago, Simonds Farsons Cisk has similarly sought between an increasingly mechanised brewing orientaion, as well as its celebratory and to communicate its aspiraions and corporate process and its agricultural origins. Brewing is representaional role as a new icon for the character through its architecture. In the expressed as a personalised crat rather than company, projecing Farsons’ image into the spirit of the early industrial architecture and an anonymous industrial process, and beer future and reinforcing the company’s status the grand European breweries, its Mriehel becomes once again a wholly natural produce as one of Malta’s most important enterprises, factory building represents even today a of an agricultural endeavour, irrespecive of one that takes its social and economic role signiicant milestone in Maltese Industrial the scale of the operaion. seriously and values the public’s respect for it art‐deco architecture, instantly recognisable and its products. and a notable geographical landmark. The Similar to wines, beers are the product of building however has outlived the brewing their environment, and the project provides equipment it houses. Installed during a work environment suited to the brewing construcion in the early 1950s and sill in use of Farsons’ renowned products. The whole to this day, the plant sufers the stresses of the building could be considered no more modern day process and coninuing market than a container for the brewing process, growth. Rapid technological developments housing its plant and equipment, iconic also dictated the construcion of a new state‐ brewing tuns, and all necessary stores, silos of‐the‐art brewhall in order that the company and fermentaion vessels. The container is 91 Infrastructure tHe BARRAKKA lIFt
Client Awards Grand Harbour Regeneration Corporation Nominated for the European Union Prize plc for Contempory Architecture ‐ Mies van der Rohe Award 2015. Location Valletta, Malta Shorlisted and nominated for the Phillipe Rotthier European Prize for Architecture Project dates 2014. 2009 ‐ 2013 Winner at the INSIDE: World Festival of Project value Interiors in Singapore 2013, Transport € 2 million category; shortlisted for the World Architecture Festival 2013. Photo credits Luis Rodriguez Lopez and Sean Mallia
This twenty storey high panoramic lit is Today, the heavy demands of accessibility located on the edge of Malta’s historic foriied to the town require a much larger footprint capital city of Valleta. The sixteenth century than previously, and therefore the renewed foriied walls of the town that once served to connecion has a larger visual impact, keep enemy ships at bay are now subject to whereas, on the engineering level, rigour was a conservaion order and provide a stunning needed as atachment to the historic walls new access into the town for the large number was not possible. of residents and visitors travelling from the water’s edge over the powerful landward The geometric qualiies of the plan echo enceinte of foriicaions and into the heart the angular forms of the basion walls and of the city. The recent restoraion of Baroque the corrugated edges of the aluminium skin waterside warehouses into a thriving cruise help modulate light as it hits the structure, ship terminal prompted the re‐acivaion of a emphasising its vericality. The mesh masks lit that had been built to connect the harbour the glazed lit carriages, recalling the forms of with the town in 1905 during Valleta’s heyday the original cage lits, whilst providing shade as a trading port. The old lit, that contained to passengers as they travel between the city two lit cabins each with a capacity of 12 and the Mediterranean Sea. passengers, was abandoned and eventually dismantled in the 1980s.
93 Infrastructure AMSteRDAM BRIDGe International design competition
Competition Organiser AC_CA Architectural Competitions Amsterdam
Location Amstel River, Amsterdam
Project dates 2012
Proud and austere, the well‐proporioned middle. This should not be missed, but it façade of the former Amstelhof faces one can take on a totally new dimension. As of the longer uninterrupted water paths one crosses the canal, the viewpoint café, in Amsterdam. However, there is weak emerging from the centre of the river, pedestrian accessibility. The entrance to enables the short stop to permit one to Hermitage Amsterdam is hardly recognisable admire the view which can be enjoyed in from the canal side, leading through a former any weather condiion and at any ime. This service access into the beauiful inner litle island is a beacon, a lighthouse, poining courtyard of the museum. to the Hermitage from afar. It is reached through a passageway beneath the river that A new approach to the museum and connects it to the bridge. its garden was proposed that is directly connected to the opposite bank of the The bike workshop is tucked away, its roof, Amstel, opening up towards the town in a a bicycle parking area extending the bank novel way and ofering renewed opportunity across the Hermitage to form a lookout onto for interacion. This can be achieved without the new landscape in front of the private Six the need to interrupt the river visually with Collecion. Around the workshop, steps and yet another structure that spans across it. ramps stream downwards, extending into Instead, one can pass gently through it by the centre of the museum and its garden, creaing a passage that allows pedestrians providing seaing and forming the seing for and cyclists to cross the river uninterrupted social gatherings level with the river while whilst retaining the historical façade and shipping low is let uninterrupted. leaving its context unafected.
One of the qualiies of convenional bridges is the panoramic view they ofer from their
95 AP lONDON
In 2007, AP’s architects ephraim Joris and Riet eeckhout co-founded AP london, and have since moved to Antwerp where they both lecture at KU leuven University. the projects carried out by the international offspring of AP Valletta relect the multifaceted and experimental spirit of the practice. this international agency is conceived as a laboratory for ideas and development of different areas of research, focused on innovative and experimental projects, from small-scale to master planning.
97 AP London StANHOPe GARDeNS
Client Awards Private Shortlisted; INSIDE: World Festival of Interiors, Singapore, 2014. Location London, United Kingdom Shortlisted; Living Spaces, Simon Architecture Prize ‐ Fundació Mies van der Project dates Rohe, 2016. 2013 Photo credits Project Value Sakiko Kohashi n.a.
The brief posed by the client was for the suggesing an almost temporary installaion renovaion of a third‐loor apartment of the spaces it creates and the objects it within a Grade II listed Victorian building, contains. These constant dialogues between and its transformaion into a high‐end four‐ old and new are the key principles in the bedroom home in London. overall design.
The restoraion and re‐applicaion of The form of the SUPER‐FURNITURE drew on tradiional decoraive elements such as the forces of the exising interior and space, cornices, mantelpieces and skiring was all the while looking to break the “formal‐ necessary to respect the historic context architectural language”. In everyday life, a of the building. At the same ime, the given form allows us to set up connecions introducion of a contemporary SUPER‐ between the objects and the language with FURNITURE component complements, as which we communicate. well as breaks away from, the very same historical background. The SUPER‐FURNITURE breaks such connecions. Here, a kitchen does not have The intervenion is openly disincive from to look like a kitchen, it allows users entering the sombre nature of the apartment’s the space to reconigure the percepion Victorian tradiion. Supericially ataching of a kitchen and create new connecions, itself to the interior, the SUPER‐FURNITURE discovering new meaning and perhaps houses the kitchen, bedroom and bathroom, unimaginable spaces. 99 AP London I.D.e. — INStANt DOMeStIC eNClOSURe
Client Liquid Earth
Location Sagada, The Philippines
Project dates 2012 ‐ ongoing
Awards Shortlisted for W.A.F. 2014 Future Projects ‐ Experimental category, Singapore.
The IDE project forms part of a atracts tourism to the area. Low natural venilaion system, cooling larger commission; the preparaion impact architecture is necessary to and heaing according to climaic of a masterplan and designing of a contribute funcion while respecing needs. The lightweight loors of sustainable resort in the mountain the local aestheic. In addiion, the IDE contains the necessary province of Sagada, central Luzon, all structures will be required to infrastructure; electricity source, one of the main islands of the sustain and improve the current water storage, boiler, venilaion Philippines archipelago. The resort environmental and social condiions. intake and sanitary pipework. will be located at the top of a To do so AP applied uilised mountain range and will overlook the indigenous building principles and The delicate site parameters surrounding valleys that house small construcion methodologies, lacing condiioned the IDE’s design into villages. The delicate nature of the them together with contemporary being the least intrusive, and the most surroundings, both environmental materials and ideals. The IDE is a sustainable possible. Research and and social, dictated and informed all tent‐like enclosure, designed to design development made it apparent of the architectural decisions. With modularly populate, individually or that the IDE had clear potenial. tourism to the area increasing, the in clusters, this sensiive area. Based Designed to be very lightweight in local communiies endeavoured on the Philippines vernacular Nipa structure, IDE is rapidly deployable, to develop their land to beter Huts, the IDE is raised of the ground and creates spacious enclosures that accommodate the growing interest. using tensile structures (bathroom/ can serve as encampments. It is easily Yet because of the nature of the site, lounge‐area/double‐bedroom) transportable to remote areas via a conservaion laws all but rule out around a central interior ireplace. large number of routes and is suitable convenional development. It is the The light aerodynamic structure uses for situaions such as natural disaster, local culture and environment that a pitched roof as both a chimney and or conlict. 101 AP London SMOKVICA DeVelOPMeNt
Client VAS Invest Montenegro
Location Montenegro
Project dates 2007‐2008
Project Value € 110 million
This project on the Adriaic coast of Montenegro encompasses a cascading densely wooded site with its own stretch of seashore. The mix will include a 5‐star hotel, several villa typologies, apartment residences, health and sport faciliies, and a yacht marina set in a stunning natural seing. The maximum amount of site area possible will be retained in its natural state, with the actual development being concentrated on zones of higher density following the contours of the landscape. 103 FOUR SAPPeRS CReAtIVe ClUSteR
105 Four Sappers Creative Cluster
Several rooms at intermediate levels provide quiet areas, or allow the more messy and noisy activities, such as 3D printing and model making, to be segregated from the main work areas.
AP Valletta has positioned itself as part of a creative cluster in Sappers Street Valletta. the idea The building which houses the oices of AP in the high ‘piano nobile’ when the irm Valleta is situated on St. Michael’s Basion, moved to the new premises, accommodates of bringing together creative enterprises next to each other is to stimulate them as drivers part of the landward enceinte of the approximately more than ity work for urban regeneration, innovation and branding. the idea is to develop and grow within sixteenth century foriied town of Valleta staions. This area also incorporates the the context of Valletta as a creative city after Valletta 2018 european Capital of Culture based and overlooks the entrance to Marsamxet main conference room which paricipates Harbour. A tunnel underlying the building visually with the acivity of the oice on connective or catalysing cultural enterprises as a value chain. Currently, AP Valletta and along its length connects Sappers Street to while providing the necessary privacy fablabvalletta form part of a growing creative community who share interest in novel ideas and the foriied ditch that surrounds the town. when the need arises. Several rooms at intermediate levels provide quiet areas, or collaborate on exhibitions and events. The original sixteenth century fabric of the allow the more messy and noisy aciviies, building was considerably tampered with such as 3D prining and model making, to during the nineteenth century, and, during be segregated from the main work areas. the Crimean War, when Malta served as These are grouped around the ground loor headquarters for the Allies, an unrealised courtyards that belong to the irst phase of project for a military hospital on the basion the building of Valleta, and have a separate incorporated this building to serve as the entrance from Sappers Lane. entrance wing. In spite of this, the building is the only one to retain its original aspect, most of the surrounding area having been redeveloped in the nineteenth century in the eclecic style of the period. The layout of the oice is centered around the main open ‐plan working space on the second loor which, together with a mezzanine level introduced Photo Credits: Franziska von Stenglin 107 Four Sappers Creative Cluster
fablabvalleta is an educaional outreach The Valleta hub is conceived as part of the AP component of MIT’s Center for Bits and Valleta Creaive Cluster, providing 3D prining, Atoms (CBA), an extension of its research into laser cuing, prototyping and fabricaion digital fabricaion and computaion. A Fab services to support experimental research. Lab is a technical prototyping plaform for fablabvalleta also ofers the possibility innovaion and invenion, providing simulus of creaing custom sotware for speciic for local entrepreneurship. A Fab Lab is also a applicaions and it behaves as an organic bridge plaform for learning and innovaion: where between tradiional trades and technologies one can play, create, learn, mentor and and enabling the creaion of augmented invent. To be a Fab Lab means to connect to products. This network enhances the products a global community of learners, educators, and services ofered to clients through beter technologists, researchers, makers and analysis, visualisaion and faster iteraion. innovators ‐ a knowledge‐sharing network that spans thirty countries and 24 ime zones. fablabvalleta has been nominated for Best Because all Fab Labs share common tools Creaive Enterprise at the naional arts and processes, the programme is building a awards Il‐Premju għall‐Ari, and for the MCA global network, a distributed laboratory for eBusiness Awards 2018. research and invenion. In 2015, Malta joined the FabLab internaional network with a Lab fablabvalleta is also the result of a in Valleta ‐ now included on www.fablabs.io. collaboraion with the M. Demajo Group.
109 AP+ 2008 AP+ 2010 2011 2011 2012 2012 2012 PHDC SYMPOSIUM AP+ provides a platform to market AP’s skills and experience in culture and the broader creative arts and in particular in Industrial tHe FOUNDING MYtHS MAltA eNteRPRISe lOGO AND INteRNAtIONAl SYMPOSIUM, & zIGUzAJG A PRINteD tHING CItY GAte - Design, Publishing, Education, Brand Development, Online Marketing and Art and Design Event Management. OF ARCHIteCtURe BRAND MANUel DeSIGN eXHIBItION: tOWARDS FRUGAlItY A DIARY OF DeMOlItION Public, commercial and global research An international group of architects, Malta Enterprise, the national A symposium and subsequent workshop AP+ was asked to design a temporary AP+ have produced a book entitled A AP+ commissioned German performance interest in the delivery of ‘zero carbon’ architectural critics, academics, and development agency responsible for led participants down a route to a event space for a children’s festival, based Printed Thing to commemorate their and video artist Bettina Hutschek to film buildings has never been higher and the 2008 2009 2010 historians were invited to speak at a promoting and facilitating international new culture, driven by a design‐led on Claire Azzopardi’s De Molizz anthology twenty‐first anniversary. A Printed the demolition of Valletta’s City Gate. adverse energy and environmental impact MIlAN FURNItURe FAIR DAR l-eWROPA PUBlICAtION NOVellettA eXHIBItION conference entitled The Founding Myths investment in the Maltese Islands revolution in the fields of architecture for children. St. George’s Square in Thing is the attempt of an architectural The experimental documentary explores of convenional air‐condiioning has clearly of Architecture, held in Malta. Co‐ DeSIGN WeeK lONADON commissioned AP+ to design their new and design. Some of the world’s top Valletta was temporarily reshaped to firm to express itself and to describe the formation of space not only through been demonstrated. Passive and Hybrid organised by AP Valletta and Rencontres logo and provide guidance on developing architects and creative thinkers shared include a walkthrough experience, a its vision without using conventional building, but also through removal. The Downdraught Cooling, in diferent forms, ‐Interface‐ is a collaboraive design research The European Commission Representaion The theme for Novelletta had originally Orient‐Occident, in collaboration communications that are aligned with their vision for a new world order, and performance space, a festival shop and a architects’ tools of communication such documentary aims at understanding is now technically viable in many parts led by AP Valleta and Canterbury School of in Malta, engaged AP+ to produce a been conceived as a printed manifesto with Heritage Malta, the conference Malta Enterprise’s brand strategy. The illustrated innovative approaches to play area. The installation was conceived as plans, drawings and models etc. The the interactions created and modified, of the world. This has been established Architecture – Interiors presented during the publicaion about Dar L‐Ewropa, the for a publication. For the London Festival presented a series of talks inspired by the manual proves details on how to use the challenges of a world running out to be assembled within 2 days whilst book consists of a collection of essays at the various stages of the project, through a combinaion of research projects Milan Furniture Fair through an installaion premises they occupy in the city of Valleta, of Architecture, AP+ developed it into mythology of architecture. the proprietary logo in a way that is of limited resources. The event was reassuring that the majority of materials by colleagues and friends of AP, whose between the building, the public and supported by the European Commission holding informaion on their ongoing a UNESCO World Heritage Site since a fully‐fledged exhibition, a three‐ Complementing this conference, AP+ consistent with their image, values and organised by AP+ and Abbate & Vigevano adopted could be re‐used or recycled. work “wraps itself round the work of the city. It shows, from various angles, and built examples around the world, research in design pracice. The installaion 1980. The publicaion supports and raises dimensional experience in line with AP’s is currently completing a publication direction. The logo includes a proprietary Architects (Italy). AP+ also held an centuries”. The essays were collected the successive removal of the gate, and including the Malta Stock Exchange in presents research in spaial design and design awareness about the European project and ambitions, activities and theoretical, that brings together and discusses the interpretation of the Maltese Cross exhibition which showcased the results spontaneously and independent of provides a subjecting approach to city Valleta. The PHDC project was a promoion educaion. The subject of the interior is its presence in the heart of Valleta. This academic and educational interests. The work of some of the most influential making it immediately identifiable with of the two‐day workshop which followed any specific theme chosen a priori. memory and oblivion that establishes and disseminaion acivity supported by explored through three main domains; irst, project’s tasks included content generaion; exhibits, tangible manifestations of the and intriguing figures in the history of Malta. Spheres of different sizes signify the symposium. The Towards Frugality Although accompanied by illustrations a historic link between Valletta’s past the EU aimed at increasing the acceptance the experience of space through intuiion, editorial management, design and layout concept born four years ago, feature architecture to explore the significance opportunities of different scales. Workshop 2011 set participants the ranging from conceptual drawings to and future. The project deals with the of these technologies among clients and emoions, and direct corporeal knowledge, and producion coordinaion. The format for projects which AP Valletta has worked on of the art form in relation to the history task of creating concepts for temporary installations, from antique maps to changing function and identity of the professionals. The project included a series second, the integraion of the interior into a the publicaion was hard bound, containing in connection with the city over the past of mankind, returning to the authentic emergency housing for the Hal Far photography of AP’s built work, it is the city of Valletta on its way into the 21st of symposia in Europe, China and India and socio‐cultural context, deining the interior as 121 pages and measuring 220mmx170mm, decade, including the Marks & Spencer roots from which modern architectural Refugee Open Centre in Malta. words that become here the architects’ century by documenting and capturing the creaion of a Design Sourcebook and a a place of intersecing social events and third, in colour. bridge, the Maritime Authority Trade design has sprung. matchless ally, even if these words merely this valuable moment of transition of Simpliied Performance Assessment Tool for the substaniaion of these aspects into real Centre, Q‐Bar, and the Barrakka Lift, serve to support and describe the firm’s Maltese and urban heritage. the design of PHDC systems. condiions, real as both proposiional as well amongst others. as actual. 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111 AP+ PlAYSPACe
Event PLAYSPACE Client Valletta 2018 Foundation Role Design Consultants. Project in collaboration with WE LIVE HERE and Invisible Playground. Location Siġġiewi, Malta Dates 21st October 2018 Budget n.a
PLAYSPACE consists of a game which prompts children to consider the spaces they inhabit through architecture props and stories. It encourages play and imaginaion, inviing young paricipants to create new and fantasical scenarios for the realm of tarmac. The children responded in a very posiive way, relishing the opportunity to play in the square, unhindered by cars and to collaborate together to give physical form to their imaginaive ideas.
This workshop is intended as a pioneer for a wider project intended to raise awareness amongst young (and older ciizens) as to the importance of public space in local communiies. Raising awareness today, allows young ciizens to make a diference in the future.
113 AP+ HOMO MelIteNSIS
Event ‘Homo Melitensis’ ‐ Malta Pavilion at the Venice Art Biennale 2017 Curators: Bettina Hutschek, Raphael Vella Client Arts Council Malta
Role Exhibition Design Location Arsenale della Biennale, Venice Dates May ‐ November 2017
The Pavilion explores percepions about idenity, naionhood, ‘naional’ characterisics and territorial constructs, and aims to guide viewers on an imaginaive journey through popular and mulidisciplinary percepions about Maltese idenity. The exhibiion design provides a homogeneous and neutral background to exhibit over 220 objects of diferent natures within the large historic Arsenale building with its striking bricks and trusses. Large parts of the structures were composed of pre‐fabricated triangular shaped foldable elements and addressed the demand for an economic producion, compact shipping volumes and short installaion ime. Moving between the cluster arrangements, underneath banners and irework structures, behind the curtain of a box and in front of a billboard, the audience is encouraged to engage with the works in the non‐hierarchical, a‐chronological world of the 19 Chapters of Homo Melitensis. The Malta Pavilion was included in the Top 5 Exhibiions of The Guardian.
115 AP+ MAltA lAND OF SeA
Event ‘Malta Land of Sea’ exhibition Curator: Sandro De Bono Client Paul Dujardin, Artistic Director BOZAR Role Exhibition Design Location BOZAR, Brussels Dates Fabruary ‐ May 2017 Budget € 50.000
“Malta: Land of Sea” presents the country as an age‐old crossroad and interprets the cultural landscape as a space of land and sea. AP Valleta designed an exhibiion experience that brought together almost seventy extraordinary objects. The exising corridor‐like spaces were transformed into a passageway of curiosiies, speciic architectural elements were designed to support the curator’s re‐engineered chronology, to dislocate and reconnect heritage objects with purposely commissioned interacive sound and text installaions.
The octagonal exhibiion tables and the mirrors provide visitors with muliple viewpoints and connecions between objects, allowing the shiting composiions to stand for new stories and connect to the present in a variety of ways.
‘Malta. Land of Sea’ enables the visitors to experience in irst person that there are no ixed boundaries on this island.
117 AP+ tHe RABBIt-DUCK IllUSION
Event TIME SPACE EXISTENCE Collateral Event of Venice Biennale of Archi‐ tecture 2016 Location Palazzo Mora, Venice Dates May ‐ November 2016 Collaborators Aaron Bezzina, Alex Attard, Aude Franjou, Madeleine Gera
AP’s installaion, conceived as “cabinet of curiosiies” recollecing objects and images from AP’s 25‐years‐old memory, allows for a viewing – not of architecture projects – but ‘the coming‐into‐being’ of muliple social narraives paricular to its projects. We report on the transformaional capaciies implicit to architectural pracice where each project evolves from and towards the construcion of a social space. It emphasises the need for the architect to become a modern‐day alchemist who must search for the secret of turning lead into gold.
Experimental processes on the theme of ‘The Severed Head’ are emphasised to encourage interacion by the viewer, while unpacking arisic representaions of severed heads connected in one way or the other to the buildings that the pracice has been involved with over the years. The head is icon, artefact, symbol, metaphor and religious object. It is, especially, the locus of thought that technologies of brain scanning today can turn into a springboard to new architectural creaions.
119 AP+ YeAR 2225 - a triptych
Event TIME SPACE EXISTENCE Collateral Event of Venice Biennale of Architecture 2014 Location Palazzo Mora, Venice Dates June ‐ November 2014 Collaborators Bettina Hutschek, Francis Ghersci, Kyveli Anastasiadi, and Darren Tanti
AP’s muli‐disciplinary piece, Year 2225 ‐ a triptych explores the invesigaion of space through various forms of expression, such as paining and ilm.
The piece revolves around the transitory moments of architecture, around the ephemeral moments between the erecing and demolishing of a building; when the building is uilised; not in its intended manner, but rather in the most unorthodox of ways.
With this in mind AP Valleta commissioned and curated a series of ilms and painings to portray three realised projects: The Barrakka Lit in Valleta, the double‐helix staircase of St. Barbara Basion and the Super‐Furniture of Stanhope Gardens in London.
The ilms record the existence of lives that unfold in the shadow of these construcions which, invariably, hail from the past: chance encounters, missed opportuniies, rouine displacements. The small oil painings, on the other hand, are designed to become objects stemming from the life of the buildings that they depict, extending it into domesic interiors and depositories of memory. 121 AP+ IN PURSUIt OF DReAMS Event Sappers Street Party, Malta Design Week
Location Valletta, Malta
Date April, 2014
Revolving around the transitory moments of architecture, not only those moments when a building is erected or demolished, but also ephemeral moments when the building gets uilised, perhaps not in predetermined ways, but in a more unorthodox fashion by the user, or the public in general.
The narraives generated by works of architecture are recorded through ilm, wriing and photography, endowing the built form with new, ever‐changing ideniies. Even as virtual futures disappear into actual pasts, nothing counts more than the pursuit of a dream.
AP Valleta invited such dreamers; each from diferent backgrounds, to come together in their individual pursuits and display their dreams collecively during the Sappers Street Party. A motley crew of culinary revoluionists, musical salvagers, ilm voyeurists, and design dodoists occupied Sappers Str. for one evening, making their intangible tangible.
123 AP+ ReASONABle DReAMS
Event Reasonable Dreams
Location La Galerie d’Architecture, Paris
Date December, 2013 ‐ January 2014
A thread between reality and icion, utopian pasts and possible futures, theories and realisaions: AP Valleta presented a curated exploraion of Valleta’s rich architectural spirit. Reasonable Dreams represents the ideniicaion of an architectural irm with the visions and inspiraions that fed the most inluenial architectural projects in Valleta. Conceived by AP, the exhibiion is a thoughful journey through the city’s transformaion, linking past and future seamlessly around three main axes: historical dreams, realised dreams, and the fragmentaion of ime‐space through arisic dreams. Changes to the urban fabric of Valleta as a capital city are revealed through an empathy with the origins of planned and realised capital projects that have contributed to the transformaion of Valleta from its Renaissance beginnings to its current revival through projects such as the City Gate project in collaboraion with the Renzo Piano Building Workshop, or the Barrakka Lit by AP.
125 AP+ NOVellettA
Event London Festival of Architecture
Location Building Centre, London
Date June ‐ July, 2010
Enitled Novelleta ‐ Hysterical Symptoms AP Valleta developed the theme for Novelleta of a CITY in Old Age formed part of the LFA back in 2006, when it was conceived as a printed 2010’s Internaional Architectural Showcase. manifesto. Later developed it into a fully ledged Presented by a number of foreign embassies exhibiion, a three‐dimensional experience in line and cultural insituions, and organised in with AP’s ambiions, aciviies and theoreical, collaboraion with the Briish Council and academic and educaional interests. The exhibits, the Architecture Foundaion for the LFA feature projects which AP Valleta has worked 2010. The Maltese showcase was located on in connecion with the city over the past at the Building Centre on Store Street in decade, including the Marks & Spencer bridge, the London. Mariime Authority Trade Centre, Q‐Bar, and the Barrakka Lit, amongst others.
127 AP+ OPeN
Event Travelling exhibition
Location Ljubljana (Slovenia) ‐ Milan (Italy) ‐ Valletta (Malta)
Date 2001‐2002
Small in size yet large in scope and ambiion, AP to another what the next design might actually look intervenions, are designed using relaively familiar and Renzo Piano Building Workshop, who operate Valleta are breaking new ground in marrying global like’… the agenda of the oice accommodates a spaial and structural concepts. By contrast, in much the same way. Despite being based in a iny technologies and experise with local responses to new direcion every ime a new member joins the the shop for Allcom at Bay Street, St Julians, the island state, AP Valleta also recognises no limits to place and climate. Both in the very high standards team’. Internaional Sea Passenger Terminal at Valleta the geographical or pracical scope of their work they set themselves and in the way they operate. Grand Harbour, and the compeiion entry for the and take full advantage of the Internet and other AP Valleta therefore ofer an especially appropriate At irst glance, the wide range of projects shown Shelter for ive Churches at Lalibela, Ethiopia, are all universal, computer based technologies to reach model of pracice for architects working in equally here may therefore appear to have litle in based on radically new approaches, and are in tune out and collaborate with the best consultants and restricted circumstances, whether in the developed common. A number of recognisable themes do with avant‐garde developments elsewhere in the subcontractors for the job, wherever they may be. or developing world. Their progress into the future nevertheless reoccur. A sensiive response to place world. The irst two designs, which are otherwise Regular consuling engineers at the top of their will bear close watching. and climate, rooted in a deep appreciaion of the vastly diferent in scale and kind, dissolve any ield include the London‐based irms of Brian Ford, special character. Malta’s own history and ecology convenional boundaries between loor, wall and experts on low energy design, and Adams Kara Constantly open to new ideas, methods and is apparent in all AP’s work. A clear ariculaion roof, or between inside and outside space, creaing Taylor, experts in advanced structural design. technologies, the four partners, Konrad Buhagiar, between public, private and semi‐private spaces a luid coninuum between ground place, spaces David Drago, David Felice, Alberto Miceli Farrugia, also typiies the residenial projects, such as The and surfaces. Equally novel, the ‘loaing’, cloud‐like Chris Abel is an architectural theorist, criic and who founded the Valleta based pracice, refuse Mews housing cluster in Kappara. On a smaller scale, forms of the lightweight, hi‐tech roof covering the educator. This text was writen in 2002 for the to limit themselves to any single architectural the single villas, such as the House for Grannie Nellie 12th Century underground churches at Lalibela, are launch of AP’s exhibiion in Slovenia. style or ideology. Each project is treated on its at San Pawl tat‐Targa, have an equivalent spaial designed to capture cooling winds and to shelter own merits, involving a fresh examinaion of the schema, and are divided into ‘served’ and ‘servant’ rock‐cut structures beneath while obtruding as programme going well beyond normal procedures. ater the manner of Lois Kahn. The rehabilitaion litle as possible into the landscape. Oten, the very nature of the building type being projects at the Manoel Theatre and the Garrison looked at is called into quesion, opening up new Church, both in Valleta, and the Kenuna Tower on If there is any ‘house‐style which unites all these approaches and soluions. Add this to the partners’ Gozo Island, all demonstrate a wilfully stark contrast diverse projects, however, it is a methodological own diferent personaliies and open‐mindedness, between old and new materials and technologies, one. In addiion to ‘open’, words like ‘process’, a talented and constantly changing workforce of sharpened by meiculous atenion to detail. The ‘crat’, ‘rigour’, ‘research’, ‘experiment’, and young architects drawn from all over Europe, and irst two of these projects, together with the folding ‘laboratory’ characterise AP’s work methods and you have an uncertain but highly potent mixture. bridge linking Marks and Spencer’s premises across values. The very name of the pracice, Architecture Rather than forcing new assistants to ‘it in’, as most one of Valleta’s historic narrow streets, feature Project, suggests an ongoing experiment in itself, designing partnership do, creaive responsibility motor‐driven, moving parts, which can be adjusted the outcome of which is as yet unknown. In this is readily given to newcomers whenever it is to changes of use and climate as needed. respect, young as it is, AP Valleta has much in In the picture OPEN at the Exchange Building, Chamber of Commerce in Valletta, Malta (2002) warranted. Unusually for a single pracice, Most of these projects, with the notable excepion common with some of the best known cuing edge therefore, it is diicult to predict from one project of the Kenuna Tower, with its ‘anarchic’ structural pracices in Europe, such as Foster and Partners 129 PROPeRtY VAlUAtION SeRVICeS
131 Property Valuation Services
AP Valleta has, since its incepion in 1991, acquired Economics of Design ‐ Adding Quality and Value to AP Valleta has also been engaged as a consultant with vast experience in the ield of property valuaion. Over the Built Environment” and “Seing the plaform for the aim of assising various eniies in the compilaion recent years, AP Valleta has coninued to develop World Class projects in Malta” during the “Real Estate of feasibility studies for the development of a number its skills, knowledge and experience in this area as a Forum” organised by EMCS Conferences in 2008 of medium to large scale projects. Such consultancy, natural reacion to an ideniiable increase in the and 2009 respecively. In 2011, AP Valleta delivered over the last ive years, included the valuaion of requirements of our clients and their consultants in a CPD course to members of the Malta Insitute property in its original state, as well as assessment of this regard, stemming also from the performance of of Accountants enitled “What’s it worth?” which its potenial development according to a speciic range the property market and new regulatory requirements had the aim of introducing the concept of property of development models leading to a commentary and introduced within the local legislaive framework. porfolio valuaions to accountants and auditors. recommendaions on the feasibility of the project and AP Valleta has kept abreast of developments by its impact on the original property value. acively paricipaing in CPD programmes in this ield Over the last ive years, AP Valleta has valued organised both locally and overseas, the last of which property, both moveable and immovable, and for Over the past couple of years, AP Valleta has also being the TEGoVA Conference about “New European diverse building types, for its client porfolio. These provided Project Monitoring Services in relaion to Valuaion Standard and Automated Valuaion Models” include: bank inanced projects. of 2017 and two CPD courses organised by the Kamra tal‐Perii, itled “Valuaions Course for Accredited • Local and foreign banks, for properies held as Since 2012, AP Valleta is local correspondent for Valuers” and “Impact of the Rent Laws Act X of 2009 security, for a total approximate value of over €800 the World Bank Group, contribuing to the ‘Doing on Valuaions,” held in June/July 2012. million; Business’ project as research partner. The study ofers an insight into regulatory issues faced by policy AP Valleta has also paricipated in a number of • Local companies or groups of companies, makers, challenges they had to overcome, and the conferences on this mater, the collaion of staisical for revaluaion and other purposes, for a total impact of their iniiaive. The 2017 report has seen informaion, and the presentaion in property fora approximate value of over €375 million; Malta moving up the ranking to 76th place, from 80th of original papers such as “Bubble? What bubble? place in 2016. ‐ Buildings in a ‘controlled’ environment” at a • Individual interests for a total approximate value of conference organised by Deloite in 2005, and “The over €100 million.
133 PROJeCtS CAtAlOGUe
135 PlACe RIVeR ISlAND eNteRtAINMeNt MAMOtCV WIlHelMSeN lAllA YeDDOUNA CeNtRe
Client Client Client Client Client Government of the Kingdom of Morocco Confidential Private Private Wilhelmsen Company
Location Location Location Location Location Fez, Morocco Malaysia Moscow, Russia Valletta, Malta Valletta Waterfront
Project dates Project dates Project dates Project dates Project dates 2007 2014 ‐ 2015 2004 2008 ‐ 2009 2015
Key Relevance Key Relevance Key Relevance Key relevance Key Relevance Master planning Master planning, Landscaping Architectural Design, Restoration, Interior Design Interior Design Masterplanning
l’IlOt De lUXeMBOURG tIGNe POINt GANADO ADVOCAteS MelItA CABle
Client Client Client Client City of Luxembourg Midi plc ‐ aoM Ganado Advocates Melita Location URBAN Location Location Location Luxembourg Sliema, Malta Valletta, Malta OFFICeS Madliena, Malta lANDSCAPeS Project dates Project dates Project dates Project dates 2001 2001 ‐ 2014 2008 ‐ 2013 2001‐2017 Key Relevance Key Relevance Key Relevance Key Relevance Masterplanning, Architectural Master planning, Master planning Restoration, Interior Design International Competition and Engineering Design, Project Management
CORPORAte VIllAGe XleNDI WAteRFRONt GO SHOPS CReeK
Client Client Client Client Malta Enterprise Ministry of Gozo, Malta GO plc. Creek Development
Location Location Location Location Mriehel, Malta Xlendi, Malta Various locations, Malta RetAIl Msida, Malta Project dates Project dates Project dates Project dates 2008 ‐ 2011 2013 2015 ‐ ongoing 2014 ‐ 2015
Key Relevance Key Relevance Key Relevance Key Relevance Master planning Master planning, Competition (1st prize) Interior Design Interior Design
137 St. PAUl’S SeAFRONt APARtMeNt PRO-CAtHeDRAl Client Private Client Location St. Paul’s Pro ‐Cathedral Committee INteRIOR Malta Location ReStORAtION Project dates Valletta, Malta DeSIGN 2008‐2009 Project dates Key Relevance 2017‐ongoing Interior Design Key Relevance Restoration
St. BARBARA BAStIONS POOl PAVIlION tOWeR APARtMeNt
Client Client Client Private Private Private
Location Location Location Valletta, Malta Malta Sliema, Malta
Project dates Project dates Project dates 2001‐2005 2003‐2006 2011
Key Relevance Key Relevance Key Relevance Restoration, Interior Design New Building Interior Design
VIllA BOlOGNA VIllA CAGlIAReS CASA PeRellOS VASSAllO HOUSe
Client Client Client Client Private Dr Ray Gatt & Dr Kathleen Gatt Private Private
Location Location Location Location Attard, Malta ReSIDeNtIAl Zejtun, Malta Malta Valletta, Malta Project dates Project dates Project dates Project dates 2012 2001‐2006 2001 ‐ 2005 2012‐2014
Key Relevance Key Relevance Key Relevance Key Relevance Restoration Restoration New Building Restoration Restoration, Extension
139 WINDMIll StR. tHe MeWS Al BAleeD tHe eARtH BUIlDING SPA ReSORt
Client Client Client Client Private L. Farrugia & Sons ltd. Private Pape Nature Park
Location Location Location Location Valletta, Malta Kappara, Malta Al Baleed Lagoon, Oman HOSPItAlItY Latvia
Project dates Project dates Project dates Project dates 1997 ‐ 2003 1994‐1998 2006 2018
Key Relevance Key Relevance Key Relevance Key Relevance Restoration, Interior Design New building New building, Architectural and Masterplanning, International Interior Design Competition (Shorlisted)
RezeVIC ReSIDeNtIAl KeNUNA tOWeR HOtel FAlCONeRIA tHe BAR
Client Client Client Client Private GO plc (formerly Maltacom plc) La Toc Hotels Ltd. Private
Location Location Location Location Croatia INFRAStRUCtURe Nadur, Gozo Valletta, Malta Balluta Bay, St Julians, Malta Project dates Project dates Project dates Project dates n/a 1999 ‐ 2000 2012 2001 ‐ 2002
Key Relevance Key Relevance Key Relevance Key Relevance Master planning, Residential Restoration, Architectural Design Brand Identity, Interior Design Interior Design
St. URSUlA StR. GO teCH CeNtRe teReNGGANU BRIDGe FORt St. ANGelO CHOP HOUSe
Client Client Client Client Client Sovereign Military Order of Malta Kitchen Concept Adrian Gatt GO plc. ECER Location Location Location Location Location Vittoriosa, Malta Sliema, Malta Valletta, Malta Zejtun, Malta Terengganu (Malaysia) Project dates Project dates Project dates Project dates Project dates 2001 2008 ‐ 2010 2003‐04, 2008‐09 2014 ‐ ongoing 2012 Key Relevance Key Relevance Key relevance Key Relevance Key Relevance Restoration, Masterplanning Interior Design Restoration, Interior Design New building, Masterplanning Architectural Design, International Competition
141 U2 StUDIO tOOlS, tRADeS & MUSeUM OF tRADItIONS MODeRN ARt Client Client Dublin Docklands Development Authority Client Public Infinitely Xara tAll Location Location Dublin, Ireland Location CUltURe Warsaw, Poland BUIlDINGS Mdina, Malta Project dates Project dates 2003 Project dates 2006 2013 ‐ 2014 Key Relevance Key Relevance New building, International competition (Shortlisted) Key Relevance Architectural Design, Restoration, Interior Design Masterplanning International Competition BUSINeSS CAMPUS SPlIt tOWeR FORt MANOel
Client Client Client Corporate multinational firm Split Municipality, Croatia Midi PLC ‐ aoM
Location Location Location Malta Split, Croatia Manoel Island, Malta
Project dates Project dates Project dates 2014 2005 2001‐2011
Key Relevance Key Relevance Key Relevance New building New Building, International competition (1st Restoration Competition by invitation (1st prize) prize)
WANDS BUSINeSS tIGNe tOWeR ROStOCK UNIVeRSItY lIBRARY CeNtRe Client Client Midi plc. ‐ aoM University of Rostock Client Wands Ltd. Location Location Sliema, Malta Rostock, Germany Location Malta Project dates Project dates 2011 2001 Project dates 2011 Key Relevance Key Relevance Master planning Architectural Design, Masterplanning Key Relevance International Competition (3rd Prize) New Building, Competition 143 AWARDS
145 Awards 2005-2019
2019 Nominated for Mies van der Rohe Award Barcelona, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Phoenicia Hotel 2011 INSIDE: World Festival of Interiors in Barcelona, Creative Re‐Use Category Winner, St Barbara Bastions projet Philippe Rottier European Prize for Architecture, Catalogue Listing, Valletta Waterfront and Cruise Passenger Terminal HSBC European Business Awards, Country Representative, Architecture Project
2018 AR MIPIM Future Projects Awards, Cannes, Culture Category, Shortlisting for St. John’s Co‐cathedral Museum extension Premju E. L. Galizia, Urban Regeneration Award for the Phoenicia Hotel 2010 Best Smart City Europe Project, Fifth Real Estate Awards, Milan, Corporate Village Premju E. L. Galizia, Architectural Quality Category shortlisted for the Coach House World Architecture Festival, Amsterdam, New into Old, Shortlisting for the Coach House E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year, Malta, Shortlisting for AP Valletta 2009 World Architecture Community 4th Cycle Winners, Cruise Passenger Terminal The European Center for Architecture, Art, Design and Urban Studies, Europe 40 under 40 Award, Malta Maritime Authority Offices World Architecture Festival in Barcelona, shortlisting, Cat. Future Projects, Corporate Village
2017 World Architecture Festival, Berlin, New into Old, Shortlisting, Villa Castro Barbara Cappochin International Biennal Architecture Prize, Shortlisting, Villa Castro 2008 Din l‐Art Helwa Prize for Architectural Heritage, Prix d’Honneur, Villa Cagliares Din l‐Art Helwa Prize for Architectural Heritage, Cat. C Prix d’Honneur, overall categories Silver Medal, Coach House AJ Small Projects Awards, shortlisting, Dining Pavilion
2006 European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage, Europa Nostra Awards, Medal, Valletta Waterfront Project 2016 Transport Malta Award, European Mobility Week 2016, Lija Urban Design Simon Prize for Architecture, Mies Van der Rohe Foundation, Private Spaces Category, Shortlisted, Stanhope Gardens The Plan Awards, Landscape Architecture Category, Shortlisted, Dock N. 1 2005 Din l‐Art Helwa Prize for Architectural Heritage, 1st prize, Valletta Waterfront Project Din l‐Art Helwa Prize for Architectural Heritage, Diploma, Casa Perellos Malta Environment and Planning Authority Award for Conservation, Valletta Waterfront Project 2015 Din l‐Art Helwa Prize for Architectural Heritage, Cat. A Prix d’Honneur, overall categories Silver Medal, Dock N.1 Nominated for Mies van der Rohe Award, M&S Store in Valletta
2014 INSIDE: World Festival of Interiors in Singapore, Residential Category, shortlisted, Stanhope Gardens World Architecture Festival, Singapore, Experimental Category shortlisted, IDE Nominated for the Phillipe Rotthier European Prize for Architecture 2014, Barrakka Lift Din l‐Art Helwa Prize for Architectural Heritage, Prix d’Honneur, Ganado Advocates Offices, Valletta
2013 INSIDE: World Festival of Interiors in Singapore, Transport Category Winner, Barrakka Lift Din l‐Art Helwa Prize for Architectural Heritage, Prix d’Honneur, Nymphea and Gate at Villa Bologna World Architecture Festival, Singapore, shortlisting, Farsons Brewery and Barrakka Lift
2012 Urban Land Institute (ULI), Global Award for Excellence, Valletta Waterfront Nominated for Mies van der Rohe Award, St Barbara Bastions project
147 Contact Information
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