Even Jason Micallef thinks they’re utterly horrid – which shows how very awful they are

Published: January 30, 2015 at 2:13pm

Jason Micallef has announced on Facebook (in Maltese) he regards the design and concept of the new market stalls, and the decision to move them to that particular place, “with sorrow”.

But ignorance continues to reign and cannot be defeated. One of his Facebook Friends commented beneath that she doesn’t know how on earth “we” (i.e. Labour) “gave the job to Renzo Piano again”.

Yes, dear readers. She thinks Renzo Piano designed those stalls and worked out their new location, and that’s why Jason Micallef is criticising them.

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Jason Micallef




36 Comments Comment

  1. Jozef says:

    Let’s have the architect on camera.

    • ciccio says:

      Let’s have an economist on camera.

      They are not even sustainable. How many units of underwear can one stock and sell from a small stall like that each day? It’s not like hawkers can keep the price of underwear fixed like Joseph Muscat’s government fixes the price of fuels…

  2. Joe Fenech says:

    F***in’ s*it ! The problem with Malta is that when you think the country has reached its lowest, you realise that it can actually sink even lower. Is there a mathematical explanation of ‘below negative’?

    • Liberal says:

      Here’s the formula: MT=-∞

    • George says:

      Yes it’s labour.

    • roberto says:

      No. There is such thing as below zero, which is minus but there is no such thing as “below negative. ” I think it’s better you don’t look to mathematics for your metaphors as you have a poor understanding of it.

      • H.P. Baxxter says:

        Actually, Joe Fenech is on to something. He is thinking of something below negative in the unique, complete, ordered field. Which obviously does not make sense.

        But if you keep in mind that in Malta we are officially Through The Looking Glass, then the possibilities are endless.

        I put it to you that Malta is a quine.

      • Joe Fenech says:

        Roberto, you’re taking thing literally.

      • Joe Fenech says:

        HPB, more than a quine, Malta is a recursive generator of utter crap.

    • Spock says:

      If you’re old enough to remember, go back in time to Mintoff’s and iz-Zero’s golden years and you’ll find enough below negatives to earn you a doctorate in maths

  3. District 6 says:

    I’m almost in tears. Is there no shame left? How dare they propose this obscenity? Appalling and disgusting.

  4. Mad says:

    Then they are still discussing if we should have left to Renzo Piano the design of the city entrance.

  5. Volley says:

    Injoranza grassa ! Mhux ta b’xejn mar u se jkompli jmur lura dan il-pajjiz li qatt ma jitghallem.

  6. rjc says:

    Has any thought been given as to where the hawkers’ vans are to be parked? Maybe they’ll clear all the residents’ parking spaces for them.

  7. bob-a-job says:

    “And that’s where I’m going to place the market stalls I’ve designed.”

    http://blogs.artinfo.com/objectlessons/files/2013/04/renzo-piano-gonzi-city-gate.jpg

  8. bob-a-job says:

    He doesn’t like Cyrus either so there must be some redeeming features in the man.

  9. lo squalo says:

    Dawk mahdumin min-nies tal-garaxx tal-gvern – u b’hekk iffrankajna lira.

  10. J. AGIUS says:

    Let’s bet Joseph Muscat will make them change the design of this abomination.

  11. giraffa says:

    And to think they had to commission a Taghna Lkoll architect to design such a banality.

    The Kamra tal-Periti should remove his warrant as not fit for purpose.

    Of course the worst part is the decision taken higher up to impose this open market in such a location, in a sort of ‘up yours Piano!’ statement.

    Hopefully they will get blown away with the first gust of a majistral. Gvern u pajjiz tal-misthija.

  12. saggio says:

    The first Force 6 wind will sort out those hideous things. Every decision taken by this government makes you laugh and weep at the same time. Malta is being governed by a bunch of idiots.

  13. Antoine Vella says:

    The most incredible comment on Jason Micallef’s post is that of Joyce Aquilina Bartolo who is somehow under the impression that the stalls were designed by Renzo Piano.

  14. Wenzu Cole says:

    She probably thinks that Renzo Piano is a ‘Nazionalist’ Contractor. You know ‘minn dawk tal-qalba li jaghtu d-donazjonijiet biex jiehdu xi kuntratt’

    These people should be locked in one of those stalls at City Gate with a big sign ‘Maltese Neanderthal Specimen’

  15. RF says:

    In 1974, Mintoff gave us that rubbish of a coat of arms. Now we have this trash. Has Maltese art regressed so much in 40 years?

  16. Matt P. says:

    Mur arah lil Muscat diehel bl-Alfa u s-sireni jferraq lin-nies waqt li qed jixtru l-isleks u t-tangi minn taht il-parlament. F’ xiex waqajna.

  17. Liberal says:

    At the time of writing, at least two idiots thought the stalls were designed by Renzo Piano. And the bigger idiot Jason Micallef didn’t think it necessary to correct them.

  18. Minus IQ says:

    Where do I get these from?!

    http://youtu.be/z9pD_UK6vGU

  19. gn says:

    Ghala dejjem fi zmien dawn jigri hekk?

  20. ken il malti says:

    Those creepy stalls remind me of the film “Brighton Rock”.

    I can see a spiv like Pinky wearing his trilby hat while arm in arm with his girl then mingling with the crowd and then deciding on shooting an air rifles to win a kewpie doll at a cheap stall like that.

  21. Gahan says:

    The Labour Party wants to derail the discussion on whether there should be a flea market in Ordnance Street in the first place.

    It is scandalous and an insult to a project made by a world renown architect to THINK of placing a flea market within a five hundred metre radius.

    Can you imagine someone shouting “Ara x’ġibnilhom” while there is a performance at Pjazza Teatru?

    Flea markets in the heart of the cities rove around the country and sell antiques and used items, like “il-Monti” originally was , not imported underwear from Bangkok.

    This is what happens in Italy: La 4ª domenica (escluso luglio ed agosto).La 2a domenica del mese (escluso agosto), Il 4° sabato e domenica del mese (escluso luglio e dicembre).

    http://fiereantiquariato.blunautilus.it/
    http://fiereantiquariato.blunautilus.it/

    • Gahan says:

      “Even Jason Micallef thinks they’re utterly horrid – which shows how very awful they are.”

      Jason Micallef is helping Joseph Muscat in derailing the argument and keep you focused on the stalls, instead of on whether there should be a Monti near the Piano Project in the first place.

      You are giving them a hand, Daphne.

      [Daphne – Wrong, Gahan. Read Jason Micallef’s comment: he is ‘sorrowful’ at the new location of the market and not just the design of the stalls. Micallef would never give Muscat a helping hand in anything at all. They are at loggerheads and have been for a while. That is the reason he has no compunction about saying how horrible the whole thing is – unlike Kenneth Zammit Tabona, who I know is probably shuddering at the sight of those stalls, but who won’t say anything because he thinks of himself as a courtier in the court of King Joseph, who doesn’t want to be cast out. Micallef, unlike Zammit Tabona, has plenty of leverage.]

      • Gahan says:

        I thought by “kunċett” he was referring to the concept of the market stall design.

        Now stop and think for a while. I just filled my car with the usual €30 petrol and was furious about il-Monti and forgot that I’m being skinned alive by Joseph Muscat!

      • Gahan says:

        Another subliminal message is that you can still vote Labour and be against this Piano/flea market setup !

        “I’m against the 7 days a week Monti Market in the heart of the Piano project , but that can’t stop from voting Labour.”

      • H.P. Baxxter says:

        Gahan, you understood EVERYTHING.

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