Engineering – Thesis
The United Nations predicts that 80% of the world’s population will be living in cities by 2050,and that the total number of people inhabiting the planet by then would increase to 9 billion.Providing food to such a large population becomes critical to the success of civilisation. Climatechange is also a continuous threat to both the […]
Architecture – Dissertation
The semi-public space is a dynamic platform of intimacy and enclosure where multiple users with long-term and short-term interest in the space, engage in a wide range of focused and unfocused interactions regulated by sensitive boundaries which determine a fine line between triggering feelings of intrusion and long-term cooperative efforts. It is a place of […]
Architecture – Thesis
This project is rooted in a theoretical exploration of space which is channelled towards the experimental development of a segment of the Pieta peninsula, and is conceived as a platform for the unravelling of the archetypal ways in which we look at space, seeking to bring movement to the way we act on it. Pieta […]
Interior Spaces Special Mention
With a width of just five metres, the challenge of this project was overcoming the restrictions of a narrow site. It was essential to take advantage of the elongated nature of the plot. The front part of the existing house was true to the character of traditional townhouses, while the back rooms were later additions […]
Interior Spaces Award
A small space in one of the urban cores of St Julian’s that is characterised by an intense mix of touristic and recreational activity, was fitted out to contain a simple programme aimed at attracting and servicing customers in search of a cab. The architects thought this could be an opportunity to revisit the millennia-old […]
Urban Regeneration Award
The brief aimed at the insertion of this 1930s hotel within the rehabilitation project for the area spanning between City Gate, the ex-bus terminus and Floriana ex-parade ground. It included the restoration of the facades, the renewal of the back-of-house, the provision of new terraces on the roof of a new wing housing the spa […]
Quality Architecture Special Mention
Our initial reaction to the site was somewhat mixed – the site is awkwardly long and narrow sandwiched at the border in between beautiful vernacular buildings and high end contemporary villas. Our clients wanted something stunning and contemporary and presented quite a hefty brief – a challenge we were very glad to take on. Combining […]
Quality Architecture Award
The house is located within a villa area that was traditionally characterized by its rural nature and low density constructions. Winding rubble walls retaining the soil in fields, the use of traditional stone in the elegant villas together with significant amounts of vegetation create a palette of natural tones consistent with the local Mediterranean landscape. […]
Civil Engineering Excellence Award
The extension to the Office Building in the Farsons Brewery campus was, like many extension projects, both an architectural and a structural engineering challenge. The existing one‐storey office, located above warehousing operations, was a masonry building, roofed over with a concrete roof slab of limited capacity. The intention was to erect a two‐floor office extension; […]
Emerging Practice Award
Valentino Architects is a Valletta-based architecture studio which was set up in 2015, and has since grown organically to a team of eight. The studio’s philosophy focuses on a collaborative approach and focuses on design oriented projects – architectural and interior – of various scales. Valentino Architects do away with the notion of style, focusing […]
