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This award honours projects that transform historic buildings with care and clarity providing them with a new lease of life through a carefully crafted and sensitive design programme that incorporates international best practice in heritage conservation. Projects must demonstrate architectural sensitivity, legibility of the original structure, and meaningful integration of new uses, systems, and materials. Attention to custom elements, detail resolution, and contextual sensitivity is central.
This award addresses Malta’s densification crisis by showcasing multi-dwelling housing that engages façade design, carbon-neutrality, urban contribution, and dwelling dignity. It sets a public benchmark for how mass housing in Malta should be.
Honouring Malta’s evolving domestic architectural identity—from villas and terraced houses to conversions of historic townhouses. This award focuses on spatial invention, materiality, tactility, and how architecture shapes everyday living through structure, detail, and tone.
Recognising high-quality workspaces—from offices to studios to factories—designed for wellbeing, focus, and adaptability. This category rewards clarity in function, comfort in atmosphere, and excellence in spatial and material design.
Celebrating projects in Malta’s growing tourism landscape—from boutique hotels to restaurants and wellness spaces. These are projects that shape the visitor experience through spatial richness, materiality, detailing, and atmosphere. Whether heritage-based or newly built, hospitality is understood as spatial storytelling.
This award recognises the role of engineering in advancing the quality, safety, and sustainability of Malta’s built environment and enhances the quality of life of its inhabitants. It honours works that address complex technical challenges through engineering rigour and a civic purpose. Whether visible or discreet, these interventions enhance the resilience and functionality of the spaces we inhabit. Through innovation and ingenuity, they set a benchmark at a national or local scale for future engineering projects to emulate.
This category is intended to give recognition to the younger members of the profession, by awarding their body of work, ethos and organisational capacity.
This award celebrates unrealised projects that reflect strong architectural or spatial thinking. These may include conceptual projects including, but not limited to, non-commissioned design studies, or competition entries that were not implemented. The emphasis is on conceptual clarity, design resolution, and relevance to Malta’s built context and challenges. Whether constrained by circumstance or intentionally speculative, these projects stand as valuable contributions to the development of our built environment.
Celebrating individuals, firms, or institutions who exemplify leadership and advocate for the Periti community resulting in significant impact and the advancement of the profession and / or shaping of the built environment in Malta. The award recognises achievements in areas such as design innovation, sustainable practices, cultural preservation, community engagement, and professional advocacy. The award seeks to inspire future generations, by promoting a culture of leadership, innovation, and responsibility towards the built environment in Malta. By honouring exemplary leadership, the award aims to elevate the discourse on our built environment and its transformative role in shaping sustainable, inclusive, and culturally rich communities in Malta and beyond.
Recognising significant and outstanding contributions to the Perit profession over a distinguished career, this award celebrates individuals whose work has made a consistent and lasting impact on the profession and on the Islands’ built environment discourse. This award honours Periti whose distinguished careers have left a profound impact on the profession, showcasing innovation, leadership, and enduring influence.
The Presidential Award is the highest honour in the field, recognising projects that excel in design innovation, environmental responsibility, social inclusivity, and cultural significance.
The 2025 Emanuele Luigi Galizia Awards are organised by Kamra tal-Periti with the generous support of its partners.
