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Premju E L Galizia, 2024
After five years, Kamra tal-Periti is proud to be ushering in a new and redesigned edition of Premju Emanuele Luigi Galizia, one which will celebrate and recognise our profession, in all its facets - from architecture to civil engineering; from interior and urban design to the conservation of built heritage. This platform is an opportunity for professionals in the field to have their contributions to our urban environment and projects, reviewed by a panel of experts.
Award Categories
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Open Space Design Award
Celebrating green, open, or public spaces that resist overdevelopment 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.
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.
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.
ROLE MODEL CATEGORIES
Galizia Leadership Award
Celebrating individuals, firms, or institutions who exemplify leadership and advocate for the architectural community resulting in significant impact and the advancement of the architectural 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 architecture and its transformative role in shaping sustainable, inclusive, and culturally rich communities in Malta and beyond.
Lifetime Achievement Award
Recognising significant and outstanding contributions to the field of architecture over a distinguished career, this award celebrates individuals whose work has made a consistent and lasting impact on the profession and on the Islands’ architectural discourse. This award honours architects whose distinguished careers have left a profound impact on the architectural profession, showcasing innovation, leadership, and enduring influence.
President’s Award for Best Overall Project
The Presidential Award is the highest honour in architectural achievement, recognising projects that excel in design innovation, environmental responsibility, social inclusivity, and cultural significance.
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