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 […]
Lifetime Achievement Award
Professor Richard England burst into the architectural scene in Malta in 1962, with the design of the iconic Church of St.Joseph in Manikata. This international modernist aesthetic was inspired by north and central European models. With his Manikata Church, Prof.Richard England proposed a vision of architecture that better responded to the local context, both climatic […]
President’s Award
The President’s Award is awarded to the project that best represents the values that the Kamra tal-Periti wishes to promote. These are the values of studied and researched design, contextuality, sustainability and respect for the environment. The jury determined that the San Pawl tat-Targa villa project most faithfully represented the values the Kamra wishes to […]
International Project Award
Reef Guest House, Bahrain Inspired by traditional Bahraini courtyard houses with wind towers oriented to catch prevailing winds, this seafront guesthouse funnels the NW breeze into its captivating yard and around its volumes. Designed to immerse its guests into a transcendent experience, away from the generic local context while providing refuge from the unremitting demands […]
Quality Architecture Award
Lattice Work A workplace is a cloud, a space where we are required to enter into a state of focus and often collaboration; a space where we need to be led and motivated. An office building should guide the visitor and worker into its arms and inspire before being capable to instill focus and collaboration. […]
