For heavens sake, it’s Facebook, not FaceBaroque, Astrid.

The 101 reasons you allude to all boil down to one, a new Parliament building at the entrance to the capital city with Gonzi’s name on it alongside the renowned Renzo Piano. Wouldn’t look so good from Gonzi’s point of view if the architect’s name was Joe Attard or Peter Sammut!

As for your refusal to justify the actual need or location of the new circus building, it is the usual way out when you have no answers to say that the others ‘logic is flawed.’

As an ex PN voter this matter goes beyond politics in my view. I am suffering and my family are suffering whilst this clown and his buddies are stealing money from us to line their own pockets and wasting more on stupid buildings that we don’t need. Would I rather see JM in power? To be honest I’d rather see a bloody monkey in power as it would probably be more trustworthy!

@Joe Attard

It is pointless discussing with you something which is self-evident.

There are a hundred and one reasons why government should have appointed Renzo Piano for the City Gate project. If you, or Ms. Vella, cannot see that, that is your problem.

There are ZERO reasons why government should have appointed Trevisan.

As for the need and location of the new Parliament building, that is another matter. I have no intention of entering into a discussion on that with someone whose sense of logic is flawed.

@mc. You state, “Giovanni Trevisan was born in Malta. That is the only thing the links say about him. Do you and Ms. Vella seriously think this is sufficient justification for the government to entrust him with Malta’s most important project?”

Well, now, I can’t obviously speak for Ms Vella but for myself I would ask, do you actually think about what you write?

Tell us where Piano was born because it sure as hell wasn’t Malta and yet the government trusted him with what you describe as Malta’s most important project.

A new Parliament building wasn’t needed. This is just that clown Gonzi’s excuse to put up a building which will have his name on it at public expense. Or maybe he is paying for it himself because at the moment he doesn’t seem to have decided where the money is coming from.

Hey, Verita, leave me out of this, will you?

But thanks. This is the best compliment I have ever received!

The REAL Angus Black.

Joe Attard, Giovanni Trevisan was born in Malta. That is the only thing the links say about him. Do you and Ms. Vella seriously think this is sufficient justification for the government to entrust him with Malta’s most important project?

I will redirect the more important questions to you: which of his projects received international acclaim? Which of his projects portrays a spark of architectural genius? How many of his projects have been featured in leading architectural journals and also in mainstream media?

As for Ms. Vella, if she really had a life she would stop writing garbage about the City Gate project on timesofmalta.com.

The great compromise, ‘a lightweight structure until agreement for its embellishment is reached’.

Postponing the decision to perpetuate the paralysing comfort. Trevisan’s offer may sound gentle, but it doesn’t address the future.

Our memory is tinged with the image of those ruins as they stand today. They are our present.
Bringing that place to life requires the knowledge that the memory will never come back.

What’s the fear, if it’s overcome in an ‘insieme’?

@mc. I’m surprised you don’t know who Trevisan is as he was born in Malta! The following links will provide you with the information you require. As for your request to Ms. Vella to reply to you that’s just silly as I doubt she ever comes into this dark place. I’m sure she has a life!

http://www.caravaggio.com/projects/VOH/

http://www.caravaggio.com/projects/oh/operahouse.php

They have the same surname and the same initials too. Like me.

Oh dear. What if it turns out I’m Astrid Vella?

Silvio, some background information to help you along.
http://www.independent.com.mt/news2.asp?artid=91318

This is what Stephen Calleja wrote (19 July 2009):
“Puerile. Barbaric. Pompous. Ridiculous. Blinkered. Patronising. Snide. Superficial. Arrogant. Bully. NGO-hater. Aggressive. Troglodyte. This is a selection of the names I was called last week by a number of Astrid Vella followers just because I dared write four or five paragraphs about their idol in the previous issue this newspaper. ……..As soon as someone dares having a go at her, the cannons are let loose. It happened recently to Robert Musumeci, after he took her to court. We had a string of letters condemning his legal action, as if the people writing had some sacrosanct right to judge before a magistrate hears the case. Now it has happened to me.”

Ms. Vella uses others to shut people up. Anyone who says anything not to her liking will be subject to a chorus of abuse from her toy soldiers.