The Wedge

The proposal for the Wedge is inspired by the articulation, orientation, materials, and scale of the Pinto Stores. It displays a chiaroscuro play of light during the day and acts as an illuminated gateway building at night.

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The Myth of Abundance

AP Valletta participated in the first edition of designMT themed "Where tradition meets innovation’’, with the installation "The Myth of Abundance": adapting the structure of the cabinet of curiosities both as a conceptual framework and as an actual display, the project exhibited a multidimensional journey through historical artifacts, natural specimens, and cultural symbols that reveal the island’s complex relationship with its most precious resource, water.

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Osu Salem School

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.

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Forni Stores

The Forni Stores form part of the historical buildings within the Cruise Passenger Terminal waterfront, located in Valletta’s Grand Harbour. This project highlighted two critical aspects of heritage conservation: the necessity for ongoing, interdisciplinary studies to fully understand the distinct phases of a building and their influence on construction techniques and historical structures; and the importance of careful recording and documenting prior and during interventions to support significant restoration efforts. The project underlined the evolution of restoration theories and standards and their application on local heritage.

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The Evans Building

The proposal envisions the conversion of the Evans building into a five-star hotel and an accessible urban landscape, combining a welcoming environment and innovative corporate social responsibility strategies with Valletta's rich architectural heritage.

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¡Qué Salero!

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.

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Priory of Navarre

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.

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Villa Cantilena

Villa Cantilena lies on the top of a hill in the quiet residential neighbourhood within Victoria Gardens. A playful yet sophisticated combination of materials – limestone, wood and concrete, balances the vernacular and the modern soul of the Villa, creating a subtle contrast between the voids and volumes, opacity and transparency, the organic and the man-made.

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Tarxien House

Located in the village of Tarxien, Malta, a timeless renovation project is underway, breathing new life into a historic townhouse while honoring its rich heritage. With a commitment to maximum respect for the pre-existing structures and a deep appreciation for the link between the building and its surroundings, this intervention seeks to preserve the essence of the past while embracing the demands of modern living.

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Nature-based solutions

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

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Naxxar House

The refurbishment and extension of an existing 18th century palazzino located in the heart of Naxxar.

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Glasshouse at Villa Bologna

The Glasshouse is part of a wider strategy to revive and safeguard Villa Bologna’s heritage. This area of Maltese heritage which has been neglected in the post-war years, yet it is critical to maintaining a sustainable approach. The intervention focuses not only on the building itself but, most importantly, emphasizes heritage valorisation by addressing the architectural fabric. By viewing heritage as a valuable asset and propagating the native Maltese flora, Villa Bologna’s gardens are maintained, promoting the idea of circularity and sustainable development.

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Qormi Valley regeneration proposal

The regeneration proposal for the area of Qormi and Sewda Valley. The project aims at restoring and rewilding the canal crossing the area, bringing the historical water structure of Qormi back and allowing for the natural flow and absorption of rainwater.

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Four Sappers residences

Renovation of an abandoned residential block in Valletta, as part of Four Sappers creative cluster.

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Wied Dalam Park

A regeneration proposal for the area of Wied Dalam, transforming a dismissed industrial facility into a public natural park combining technology, agriculture, innovation, education and sustainability in a mix of activities which will create opportunities to test new farming methods while promoting an alternative and sustainable economic model and offering public and educational attractions.

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Noto Hilltop Villa

The restoration and rehabilitation of a hilltop villa in Noto, Sicily. The design proposal aims at enhancing the exhisting fabric, creating a seamless blend between old and new as well as the indoor and outdoor.

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Seaside offices

A design proposal for the refurbishment and connection of two adjacent buildings along the Gzira-Sliema promenade to be turned into new offices. The proposal combines energy efficiency to quality design.

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H-BIM projects

AP Valletta research on H-BIM (Heritage Building Information Modelling).

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Follow the water

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.

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Grande MAXXI Museum

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.

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Ghana Innovation Farm

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.

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Satis House

This penthouse in Sliema guards the spirits of the old dimora and its inhabitants while having been readapted to accommodate the owner's needs. A personal selection of objects and furniture from the old house and some new additions animate the soft yet distinct character of the flats.

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Dragonara Palace Promontory

The project brief intended to explore the potential of the site on which the Dragonara Casino lies whilst also proposing new uses that could be introduced to complement the current facilities.

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HSBC Contact Centre

The restoration of the HSBC contact centre in Swatar. The proposal integrates aspects of the HSBC Global Workspace Standards, with the local ones. The colour and materials palette used are related to vernacular architecture and elements of the island, allowing for the inception of a sense of local being as soon as entering the space.

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Hastings area regeneration proposal

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.

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St. Gilles Museum

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.

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Central Public Library Area Regeneration Proposal

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.

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Eski Shahar

A regeneration strategy for fragile urban environments, striving to blend old and new, and to provide new spaces for exchanges on the borders between the two, from both a socio-cultural and economic perspective. While new public spaces emerge and green areas connect them, a sensitive regeneration of the mahalla’s streets through restoration and upgrading of existing structures preserves the original spirit of the place.

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Filoxiny House

As the name suggests - Filoxiny comes from the Greek word ‘philoxenia’ which literally translates as ‘friend to a stranger’ and is more generally linked to the concept of ‘generosity of spirit’ - the project revolves around the need to re-imagine spaces with generosity and unpretentiousness, putting the needs of the residents first. It’s no coincidence that we chose an image from Kaurismaki’s “A Man Without a Past” for the concept description. We wanted the proposal to be as gentle, quirky and compassionate as the film, engaging with people going through a difficult phase of their life without any prevarication.

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Sports Club Concept Design

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.

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Iċ-Ċentru Malti tal-Ktieb

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. 

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Spatial Investigations on Post-pandemic Performance Spaces

Modalities of performing have developed over the centuries, in adaptation to ever changing social and political conditions.
It is logical that in this moment of crisis of the status quo, spaces for artistic performances need to be reconsidered too.

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Phoenicia Spa

The concept behind the design of the new wing of the Phoenicia Hotel hosting a new Spa is rooted into the memory of ancient roman baths and their positive benefits both on the body and the spirit.

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Dingli Garden Extension

A new extension for a farmhouse on the top of a panoramic hill, whose concept originates from the spirit of the ancient civilizations who chose this special site with its spectacular views to provide the ideal link between our world and the afterlife. 

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Four Sappers

AP Valletta completed the renovation of its historical building. AP has positioned itself as part of a creative cluster in Sappers Street Valletta. The idea of bringing together creative enterprises next to each other is to stimulate them as drivers for urban regeneration, innovation and branding. No. 4 Sappers Street is an opportunity to create a unique hub entirely dedicated to the cultivation of new ideas in Valletta. The creative cluster is designed to be fully integrated in its urban surrounding and historical context.

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Berlin-Brandenburg 2070

As global warming changes the climate of the region, the role of public space and agricultural infrastructure as shared commons and as spaces of exchange, will continue to grow in value. The challenging task of imagining one of the most complex German regions in 50 years from now, gave us the opportunity to work on major sustainability-related themes that should be central to any project, in Malta just as in continental Europe.

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Townhouse in Saint Ursula Street

What follows is the story of the restoration of an 18th Century Palazzo located in the heart of Valletta that was severely damaged during World War II and that had lain in a state of disrepair for decades.

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Valletta Townhouse

This is the story of a Palazzo in Valletta. Among its stunning ruins there are many hidden ‘treasures’, buried in dust and trash. Thanks to its new owners, the building will finally get the chance to rise from its own ashes.

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Property Valuation and advisory services

Since 1991, AP Valletta has acquired vast experience in the field of property valuations and has advised numerous clients on the value of their property portfolio. Over the last ten years, we have valued property, both moveable and immovable, and for diverse building types. 

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The Coach House

The Coach House is a Grade 1 Scheduled Property located in the heart of the village of Balzan, within the Urban Conservation Area. Historically, the property is thought to have primarily served as a service building intrinsically connected to the adjacent Palazzo Bosio.

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The Earth Building

The entrance to Pape Nature Park is announced by a small gate in-between tree lines in an otherwise uninterrupted landscape.

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Phoenicia Hotel

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.

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Playspace

PLAYSPACE consists of a game which prompts children to consider the spaces they inhabit through architecture props and stories. It encourages play and imagination, inviting young participants to create new and fantastical scenarios for the realm of tarmac.

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St. John’s Co-Cathedral

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.

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GO Technical Centre

The new GO Tech Centre at the Industrial Estate of Bulebel in Zejtun provides a prime example of AP’s sustainable design philosophy.

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Manoel Theatre

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.

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Malta Land of Sea

AP Valletta transform BOZAR’s upper galleries into a passageway of curiosities. Situated in the Belgian Centre for Fine Arts BOZAR, the exhibition ‘Malta: Land of Sea’ presents the country as an age-old crossroad and interprets the cultural landscape as a space of land and sea.

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Malta Pavilion

The Malta Pavilion at the 2017 Venice Biennale is a complex installation that brings together the work of thirteen artists and a diverse selection of artifacts from national and private collections, in a non-hierarchical and a-chronological set up.

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St. Paul's Pro-Cathedral

There is no building in Malta more symbolic of the presence of the British on the island than St Paul's pro-Cathedral. Its elegant steeple is the most iconic element on the Valletta skyline, a lofty needle piercing the Mediterranean sky.

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Villa Castro

Villa Castro is located in the south-east of the town of Naxxar, in the centre of the island of Malta. Its location on the perimeter of an Urban Conservation Area has led to the drastic modification of the original setting of the villa, recent building developments destroying irreversibly its original context.

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Valletta City Gate

As Associate Architects with Renzo Piano Building Workshop, AP took care of the regeneration project of the main entrance of Valletta: the gate, the new house of Parliament and the restoration of the ruins of the old Opera House, which was turned into an open air theatre.

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Melita Technical Centre

The project of the new technical centre for the most important mobile communications provider on the island was divided into three phases.

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Dock N.1

The Creek once again unites, rather than divides the residential quarters of the Three Cities, through a continuous 2.5 km long promenade, linking Senglea’s and Vittoriosa’s waterfronts with gardens and public spaces, retaining the industrial heritage of the dockyard.

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The Keepers Cenotaph

This drawing project is set in London, Old Street Roundabout – coined the Silicon Roundabout – yet suffering from cultural amnesia and identified (by us) as an urban non-place.

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Museum of Tools, Trades and Traditions

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.

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Lines of Resistance

This project originated from work sent by Jon Tarry; a screed drawing 30/180cm on gabriano 200gsm with graphite, water base medium and 3 crossed lines.

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Vassallo House

Two adjacent townhouses within the old winding roads of the busy village of St. Julians merged into one.

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Stanhope Gardens

The brief posed by the client was for the renovation of a third-floor apartment within a Grade II listed Victorian building, and its transformation into a high-end four-bedroom home in London.

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Barrakka Lift

This twenty storey high panoramic lift, commissioned by the Grand Harbour Regeneration Corporation plc and designed by AP, is located on the edge of Malta’s historic fortified capital city of Valletta.

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Farsons Brewery

The project provides an environment suited to the brewing of Farsons’ renowned products the whole building no more than a container for the brewing process, housing its plant and equipment, iconic brewing tuns, and all necessary stores, silos and fermentation vessels.

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Ganado Advocates

The brief for this project was to address the use of three existing offices within a historic building.

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Lonsdale Road

The brief was the renovation of a basement flat in west London. We were asked by our client to provide a high-end two-bedroom apartment consolidating the particular characteristics of the existing interiors yet providing new connections.

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Windmill Street

Renovation of a 19th century house in Valletta.

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Pool Pavilion

Conceived as a stone monolith rising out of the surrounding terrain, this summer pavilion provides pool-side facilities that have been re organized to encourage their use on a more regular basis by the family and to enhance their role when the gardens are geared for entertaining.

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St. Barbara Bastion

The outstanding views of the Grand Harbour, which penetrate every room of this prestigious old property on St. Barbara’s bastion, determined the neutral materiality and tones that are the basis of this rehabilitation project.

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Villa Cagliares

Villa Cagliares stands at the edge of the village of Zejtun in an area referred to locally as ‘ir-Rahal t’isfel’ which flanks the main water course.

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St. Ursula Street Apartment

Many of the tall buildings that characterize the urban fabric of Valletta have been left vacant and derelict for decades. The small dimensions of these habitations have made them for a long time undesirable.

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The Bar

A disused ground floor garage, excavated for a public lounge – a retrospection – a reinterpretation of the bold decor, of the sculptural qualities, the solids and voids, which characterise Balluta Buildings. 

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Q-Bar

Inspired by the original warehouse use of the 18th century baroque vaults at Pinto Stores on the Valletta Waterfront, the concept of Q-bar became the stacking of crates into sculptural tower-like volumes.

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Smokvica Development

Mixed development in Montenegro for a new residential area with amenities.

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Xara Palace

The project for the restoration of an historic building in the heart of the Siculo-Norman fortified hill-top city of Mdina, deals primarily with the refurbishment of the building to create a charming hotel with seventeen suites overlooking the Maltese landscape.

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Tigne Point

It is understandable that a large scale development like Tigné Point should contain the contradictions and complexities that arise when onerous commercial targets are married to a rich building tradition and the specificity of a historic site.

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Valletta Waterfront

The insertion of a new Cruise Passenger Terminal at the foot of the baroque Pinto Stores, develops on the genus loci of Valletta, to add yet another layer to the rich historic stratification of the Grand Harbour.

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Stock Exchange

The Malta Stock Exchange operates today from 19th century Garrison chapel, built at the time of the Crimean War as a school and place of worship for the allied troops passing through Malta on their way to battle.

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Republic Street

Intervention for the re-qualification of Republic Street in Valletta.

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The Mews

Four residences clustered together to form a court at the heart of the development. The cue taken from the Mediterranean ‘ortus clausus’ was extended to the built fabric itself, which occupies the site in such a way, that the balance of solid and void, public and private, light and shade finds a natural equilibrium.

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Terengganu Bridge

Large domed spaces are flanked by meandering arcades dividing the vehicular routes from large pedestrian walkways over the Terengganu River.

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Seafront Apartment

The underlining design ethos for this project was one which embodied both clarity and function simultaneously. The conversion from two relatively large apartments into one massive, ‘Zen-like’ living space had to be carried out with certain key targets in mind.

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Rostock University Library

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.

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Wands Business Centre

This project aims at intensifying and accelerating the urban experience through clash and disjunction on the one hand, and by absorbing and assimilating the lessons of Malta’s past urban experiences, on the other.

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Common_Uncommon Ground

The drafted outline of the respective runways is a schematic set of boundaries within which the interaction between the land and the moving object, the plane, takes place.

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Sleeper Cell

This small-scale renovation project of a Victorian warehouse space in East London started just after we concluded Stanhope Gardens across the city.

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Mamo TCV

Palazzo Stiges, situated in the heart of Valletta, dates back to the first phase of the building of Valletta.

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Instant Domestic Enclosure

IDE is the design of portable house combining sustainable concepts with high standards of domestic design.

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Drawing Out Collapse

Drawing out collapse refers to the investigation of generative methodologies of spatial construction, (building up) and their collapse, (breaking down).

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Madliena Villa

This villa is perched on the ridge of a hill that looks out towards the sea. It was designed to satisfy the clients’ yearning for space and freedom, to create the possibility of wandering through a succession of spaces that spring as though spontaneously from the lie of the land.

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Amsterdam Pedestrian Bridge

Proud and austere, the well-proportioned façade of the former Amstelhof faces one of the longer uninterrupted water paths in Amsterdam. However, there is weak pedestrian accessibility. The entrance to Hermitage Amsterdam is hardly recognisable from the canal side, leading through a former service access into the beautiful inner courtyard of the museum.

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Corporate Village

The brief for the development is to create central support services and ancillary facilities for businesses already operational or starting up in Malta, to serve both as a support structure for these enterprises as well as to provide much needed high quality office space, complemented by amenities such as retail, dining facilities, sports facilities, and child care services that render a working environment more flexible, accessible and comfortable.

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Camilleri Paris Mode Workshop

A new retail space for a leading Maltese company trading luxury fabrics and high-end furniture.

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Maritime Trade Centre

The project involved the construction of an office complex to house the offices of the Malta Maritime Authority and those of other maritime related entities.

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Dining Pavilion

This pavilion-like structure, that houses an extension to the existing kitchen in an 18th century house, is designed like an over-scale porch.

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Fort Chambray

Restoration and re-use of historic buildings as a high quality touristic and residential development on the island of Gozo.

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Casa Perellos

Built in the early 18th Century, Casa Perellos was the intimate, yet stately country residence of the Grand Master Ramon Perellos y Rocafull (1697 – 1720).

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M&S Store

The balcony being an important architectural element in the streetscape of Valletta, it seemed ideal to reinterpret and recreate this external wooden element to contain the connection between the existing shop and its extension.

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Kappara Villa

Ancient texts often describe the authors’ admiration for techniques used by builders and craftsmen, aimed at creating the perception of integrity through a carefully crafted joining of a multiplicity of parts.

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Kenuna Tower

The intervention on the tower is an insertion that is independent of the existing old structure thus avoiding any scars on the historic fabric.

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Granny Nellie

An old lady had this house built for herself and her nurse in a mature garden surrounded by pine trees.

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Shelter for five churches

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.

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Mobile Communication Outlet

The project for the design of a shop of what used to be called ‘Allcom’ in a trendy touristic town that evolved on the traces set out by the original fishing village and the later Victorian summer residential spa, owes its genesis to the concept that publicity can serve as a vehicle to lift the urban space of the town to the level of art.

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The Wedge The Myth of Abundance Osu Salem School Forni Stores The Evans Building ¡Qué Salero! Priory of Navarre Villa Cantilena Tarxien House Nature-based solutions Naxxar House Glasshouse at Villa Bologna Qormi Valley regeneration proposal Four Sappers residences Wied Dalam Park Noto Hilltop Villa Seaside offices H-BIM projects Follow the water Grande MAXXI Museum Ghana Innovation Farm Satis House Dragonara Palace Promontory HSBC Contact Centre Hastings area regeneration proposal St. Gilles Museum Central Public Library Area Regeneration Proposal Eski Shahar Filoxiny House Sports Club Concept Design Iċ-Ċentru Malti tal-Ktieb Spatial Investigations on Post-pandemic Performance Spaces Phoenicia Spa Dingli Garden Extension Four Sappers Berlin-Brandenburg 2070 Townhouse in Saint Ursula Street Valletta Townhouse Property Valuation and advisory services The Coach House The Earth Building Phoenicia Hotel Playspace St. John’s Co-Cathedral GO Technical Centre Manoel Theatre Malta Land of Sea Malta Pavilion St. Paul's Pro-Cathedral Villa Castro Valletta City Gate Melita Technical Centre Dock N.1 The Keepers Cenotaph Museum of Tools, Trades and Traditions Lines of Resistance Vassallo House Stanhope Gardens Barrakka Lift Farsons Brewery Ganado Advocates Lonsdale Road Windmill Street Pool Pavilion St. Barbara Bastion Villa Cagliares St. Ursula Street Apartment The Bar Q-Bar Smokvica Development Xara Palace Tigne Point Valletta Waterfront Stock Exchange Republic Street The Mews Terengganu Bridge Seafront Apartment Rostock University Library Wands Business Centre Common_Uncommon Ground Sleeper Cell Mamo TCV Instant Domestic Enclosure Drawing Out Collapse Madliena Villa Amsterdam Pedestrian Bridge Corporate Village Camilleri Paris Mode Workshop Maritime Trade Centre Dining Pavilion Fort Chambray Casa Perellos M&S Store Kappara Villa Kenuna Tower Granny Nellie Shelter for five churches Mobile Communication Outlet