Remove barriers around parliament, return square to the public: architects

Remove barriers around parliament, return square to the public: architects

The Chamber of Architects on Monday called on the Speaker of the House to remove the metal barriers that have circled the parliament building in Valletta for more than four years."Renzo Piano’s parliament building and the surrounding urban space were designed to promote transparency of the democratic processes. The permanently installed barriers erected around this...

Kamra Tal-Periti Urges Removal Of Parliament Barriers At Freedom Square

On occasion of World Architecture Day, the Kamra tal-Periti has urged the authorities to return Freedom Square in Valletta to the public. “If there is one intervention in Malta’s public space that symbolically embodies the disregard, verging on contempt, with which architecture and the work of architects is generally held, it is the blight around Freedom Square upon which the parliament building designed by Renzo Piano stands,” the Kamra tal-Per…