What if the 19th century building of the Osu Salem Presbyterian School was brought back to life with a new purpose? The proposal for the regeneration of this heritage building designed in 1843 and completed in 1865 by the Basel Mission in Accra aims at contributing to safeguarding the spirit of the place while positively impacting the Osu community.

Aside from the southern Spanish turn of phrase, ‘salero’ also directly translates to ‘salt’ or that which contains salt. Both meanings resonate with the proposed public pavilion – an inhabitable object that re-imagines the salt pans of San Fernando through new geometrical purity.

Our project for the re-purposing of the old Priory of Navarre was based on a design that sought to blend the building’s original austere identity as a convent, with the contrasting Baroque essence of the adjacent theatre to which it has, in time, been annexed. This difficult marriage was arranged while introducing new functions such as a booking office, exhibition spaces, and a café. Guided by reverence for the building's history, commitment to functional innovation, and an ambition to provide visually striking spaces, the intervention revitalizes the building and adapts it to allow the accommodation of contemporary uses, all the while creating a new originality and timelessness.

Re-imagining a pocket of open space at the Hamrun Secondary School, as a case study testing nature-based solutions.

Our proposal for the competition that Arts Council Malta launched earlier this year, for their installation at the London Design Biennale.
‘Follow the water’ is a reaction to the imminent water crisis that Malta and many other countries have to urgently tackle. By working with the existing water element in the square and re-interpreting its grid in a playful yet sober manner, the proposal expresses the transformative and communicative power of design while responding to the radical social and environmental changes at the core of the brief.

Our proposal’s intention is to build a functional, sustainable and visually congruent constellation of built and green landmarks around the MAXXI museum, with landscape taking on a consistent and central narrative role throughout the scheme.

This proposal was submitted to a competition to design a technological and cultural hub to address the global challenges of food supply chains. It shall become a reference for the local community providing resources, knowledge, and solutions able to meet the most basic of human rights: access to food.

The proposal for a pilot masterplan for the regeneration of the Hastings area in Valletta. The intention is to test and hopefully implement a strategic vision for the country which takes into account post-pandemic considerations on the organisation of urban areas.

The proposal for the new archaeological museum in St. Gilles du Garde, France. The new museum is part of a major regeneration project of the historical area.

A regeneration proposal for the Central Public Library area, which aims at injecting new life into the existing building while restoring and enhancing its genius loci, to create e new safe, open, green space.

The brief for the redevelopment and enhancement of an existing sports hall required to minimise the volumetric impact of the new build -accommodating the news sports club facilities- in relation to the surrounding landscape and pre-existing buildings.

A regeneration project which stems from the need of giving to locals and visitors a space where to reconnect and recharge through books and literature, delve into Maltese literature’s history and discover an oasis for intellectual stimulus and spiritual wellbeing even during the most hectic days. 

AP is working on the rehabilitation and extension of the most important museum on the island. Besides restoring and reusing the neglected and underutilised historical spaces annexed to the Cathedral, we designed an extension like a monumental reliquary to house a very precious set of tapestries.

We developed extensive experience in restoration and regeneration of complex heritage buildings thanks to projects like Manoel Theatre, where we are resident architects since 1996.

Tools, Trades and Traditions in the historical Palazzo de Piro (Mdina) is a unique museum in Malta presenting a single private collection of circa 2,000 objects and tools related to an array of trades.

The parameters that generated the scheme for the competition for the university library of Rostock were firstly, the integration of education and recreation and, secondly, the ease with which information could be retrieved in the library itself.

AP was among the eight firms chosen to participate in the international competition in 1999 for a temporary shelter for five twelfth century churches in Lalibela, Ethiopia.