Premju Emanuele Luigi Galizia 2025
Awards
Kamra tal-Periti is proud to announce the fourth edition of Premju Emanuele Luigi Galizia, first launched in 2018.
The awards are the profession’s platform to recognise quality and ambition in shaping the built environment. They offer Periti the opportunity to present works that respond to the challenges of their time with skill, relevance, and care.
An independent jury of local and international peers will review all entries, offering recognition within the profession and fostering wider appreciation of what it means to build well.
Premju Galizia continues to promote professionalism, resourcefulness, and the social and cultural value of our work. It supports practices that pursue quality not as style, but as civic contribution.
This year’s edition focuses on categories shaped by Malta’s current realities and the built responses they have prompted. In carrying the name of Emanuele Luigi Galizia, the awards ask us to consider: What would Galizia do?
Core Categories
Adaptive Reuse Award
This award honours projects that transform historic buildings with care and clarity—where conservation is not a backdrop but an active design process. Projects must demonstrate architectural restraint, legibility of the original structure, and meaningful integration of new uses, systems, and materials. Attention to custom elements, detail resolution, and spatial continuity is central.
Entry Criteria: Eligible projects must be built works completed in Malta between January 2020 and June 2025. The intervention must involve a formally scheduled or historically significant building. Submissions should demonstrate a clear conservation strategy with attention to architectural legibility, respectful adaptation, and reversibility. Projects must show how new functions are sensitively introduced, with integration of contemporary systems, spatial coherence, and attention to detail—including custom elements or built-in furniture.
Hospitality Design Award
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.
Entry Criteria: Open to completed projects in the domains of accommodation, dining, and wellness, delivered between January 2020 and June 2025. Projects may be new builds, adaptive reuse and/or high quality interiors. Submissions must demonstrate design quality across spatial planning, guest comfort, atmosphere, and material tactility. Interior design and furniture integration are central to evaluation. Entries should clearly present how spatial design elevates the hospitality experience.
Multi-Unit Residential Design Award
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.
Entry Criteria: Eligible projects include apartment blocks or multi-unit housing completed in Malta between January 2020 and June 2025. Submissions should reflect high standards in façade design, entrance clarity, circulation, and unit layout. Projects must demonstrate how they contribute positively to the surrounding urban context and provide liveable, dignified housing through material, spatial, and environmental design.
Single Dwelling Design Award
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.
Entry Criteria: Open to completed single-family homes, including new builds or adaptive conversions, realised between January 2020 and June 2025. Submissions must demonstrate architectural inventiveness, spatial clarity, and coherence across interior and exterior spaces. Judging will consider material choices, detail resolution, and how the project interprets or advances Malta’s domestic architectural identity.
Workplace Design Award
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.
Entry Criteria: This category is open to offices, co-working spaces, factories, studios, or other work-related environments completed between January 2020 and June 2025. Submissions should show excellence in layout, ergonomics, and environmental quality—daylight, ventilation, acoustics. Entries must reflect thoughtful integration of furniture, materials, and systems that support wellbeing, productivity, and adaptability.
Public Projects Award
For public-sector or state-funded projects that reflect architectural responsibility and public value. Whether small or large in scale, this award celebrates civic clarity, design integrity, and contribution to collective experience—evoking the standards of Galizia’s legacy.
Entry Criteria: Eligible projects include buildings or spaces commissioned or delivered by public entities, completed in Malta between January 2020 and June 2025. Submissions must demonstrate spatial clarity, architectural quality, and public value. Projects should reflect design integrity, material robustness, and civic purpose. Evaluation will consider how the project contributes to community access, experience, and long-term relevance.
Open Space Design Award
Celebrating green, open, or public spaces that resist over-development and offer places for rest, gathering, and ecological diversity. These are interventions that serve Maltese towns and urban edge conditions with generosity, simplicity, and civic intelligence.
Entry Criteria: Open to completed public open spaces such as parks, gardens, piazzas, or urban greening interventions, delivered between January 2020 and June 2025. Projects must demonstrate thoughtful spatial composition, ecological value, and community utility. Submissions should show care in layout, planting strategy, surface materials, and long-term maintenance. Tactical or temporary interventions may be eligible if documented evidence of impact exists.
Special Categories
Emerging Practice Award
This category is intended to give recognition to the younger members of the profession, by awarding their body of work, ethos and organisational capacity.
Entry Criteria: Eligible participants must be fully qualified periti, whether individual or registered partnerships, and paid-up members of the Kamra tal-Periti, who have been practising for not more than 10 years on the deadline of the award entries, or practices where 51% or more of principals have been practising for not more than 10 years on the deadline for submission of entries. Nominees submitting an entry for the Emerging Practice Award should include a comprehensive portfolio of projects.
Unbuilt Projects Award
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.
Entry Criteria: Eligible entries must be design projects developed between January 2020 and June 2025. Submissions should clearly outline the project’s intention, context, and process, supported by drawings, visualisations, and a concise rationale. Evaluation will focus on the completeness of architectural thought, the clarity of spatial strategy, and the project’s potential civic or cultural impact, even in its unbuilt state.
Role Model Categories
Galizia Leadership Award
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.
Entry Criteria: Nomination. This category is open to any individual, or organisation, not necessarily warrant-holders. Submissions, via nomination, must include a portfolio of work that demonstrates the far-reaching and consistent impact of the architectural leader in the period spanning: 1st January, 2020 and 30th June, 2025.
Lifetime Achievement Award
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.
Entry Criteria: Nomination
President's Award for Best Overall Project
The Presidential Award is the highest honour in the field, recognising projects that excel in design innovation, environmental responsibility, social inclusivity, and cultural significance.
Entry Criteria: Selected by the jury from the winners of the core categories. No submissions will be accepted for the President’s Award.
Eligibility & Entry Conditions
Project Type & Timeline
Eligible entries include new builds, renovations, alterations, or extensions completed in the Maltese Islands. Projects must be fully completed by 30 June 2025 and fall within the completion window of 1 January 2020 – 30 June 2025. Incomplete projects will not be considered.
Who Can Apply
Core categories are open to Periti or practices authorised in Malta, with at least 51% of principals listed as paid-up Kamra tal-Periti members.
Previously shortlisted and winning projects are not eligible.
Previously submitted but unshortlisted projects may be resubmitted, subject to full compliance with 2025 regulations.
Nomination-Only Awards
The Galizia Leadership Award and Lifetime Achievement Award are by nomination only.
No submissions are accepted for the President’s Award.
Awards Discretion
Team Recognition
Awards are granted to the entire project team, as their contribution is essential to the project and thus to the entire team as listed in the submission organigram. If any eligible professional is excluded from the submission, the project may be disqualified.
Submission Requirements
- Completed online application form
- Submission of complete Project Team details
- Submission of Jury Slide Deck and Media Files
- Acceptance of 2025 T&Rs
- Payment of €200 submission fee
See more detail here
Award Process
Stage 1: Submissions
Applications need to be submitted to Kamra tal-Periti by 26th September 2025, at 23.59 hrs.
Submission requirements per category are available in the application form found at
Stage 2: Shortlisting
An eligibility committee appointed by the Council of the Kamra tal-Periti will review each submission received to ensure eligibility with the administrative criteria.
Administrative Criteria
- Submitted entries will initially be assessed to verify compliance with the submission requirements including submission of application form, uploading of all submission file requirements, payment of participation fee, membership status of nominee/s, date of completion, acceptance of award conditions;
- The committee will verify compliance with category profile.
Any entries that do not fulfil the administrative criteria will be automatically disqualified.
Those projects considered eligible will undergo a first review by a jury panel appointed by the Council of Kamra tal-Periti who will shortlist a maximum of three entries per category for final assessment.
The finalists in each category will be required to prepare 2 posters about their entry as per guidelines to be supplied by Kamra tal-Periti.
Physical models, samples and/or any other physical materials supporting the projects may be displayed by the finalists on presentations day during their dedicated presentation slot, however they will not be perused by judges in their determinations.
Finalists will each be given a complimentary ticket to attend the Awards Ceremony and Gala Night on 25th October, 2025 (for a maximum of two tickets per shortlisted application). Any additional tickets for the final Awards ceremony, will need to be purchased from Kamra tal-Periti.
Stage 3: Final Judging & Awards
Kamra tal-Periti will appoint a jury composed of two teams. Each team will be composed of four international members and lead by a local non-voting Perit.
The jury teams for the categories will be announced on 13th August, 2025.
The selected finalists for each category will deliver public presentations of their projects to the juries.
The winners of each category will be announced during the Awards Ceremony. The President’s Award for the Best Project of the year, will be awarded to the project’s category winner considered by the jury to be the most deserving project on the basis of the New European Bauhaus initiative’s three principles and the Davos Baukultur Quality System’s eight criteria.
Kamra tal-Periti reserves the right NOT to award any category should the jury conclude that none of the submissions meet the required standard.
Timeline
Announcement of jury
13th August, 2025
Opening of nominations
20th August, 2025
Closing of Submissions
26th September, 2025 at 2359hrs
Announcement of Finalists
6th October, 2025
Public exhibition [Villa Bighi, Kalkara]
20-25th October, 2025
Live Presentations [Villa Bighi, Kalkara]
24th October, 2025
Awards ceremony [Villa Bighi, Kalkara]
25th October, 2025
