The Philistines’ cheese-grater
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June 21, 2014 at 6:32pm
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http://www.panoramaditalia.it/parlamento-malta-capolavoro-made-in-italy/
Unesco World Heritage building and one of the ten most beautiful contemporary compositions in stone.
Ouch.
And David, the technological experience gained by Hal Mann, and the collaboration with this Italian laboratory proves priceless.
The PL has put up obstacles and sneered at every project by the Nationalist administration.
Today they are using Smart City, the aquarium, the ‘roofless theatre’, miles of new roads, the family park, the waterfront and many other projects as if these are Labour’s projects.
And the PL will be inaugurating PN projects for two years to come.
Your comment confirms that the ‘Gonzi P.N.’ government has worked hard to upgrade our country with important projects for “Malta Taghna Lkoll”, a misnomer under Joe Muscat’s party in government.
The final project by Dr. Gonzi was to convince and obtain over a billion euro for our country from the E.U; despite knowing that his chances of being confirmed as Prime Minister were next to nothing.
Muscat has already boasted about ‘our’ life sciences centre in his fake interview to thereporter.net
I would have preferred our Parliament made in Malta.
You mean made from Globigerina? I doubt how sustainable that would be – to carve out so much limestone from our countryside.
The stone was quarried in Malta but cut and shaped in Italy.
Did you train in pedantry or were you born that way? Kemm int gh*xx, jahasra. As if having something Malta-made for its own sake has any artistic value in its own right.
Hear, hear.
Fl-ahhar xi hadd qalielu.
But then you would, wouldn’t you.
Do you know where the Statue of Liberty was made? Can you think if a more American symbol than the Statue of Liberty?
Why? Just because of the ubiquitous Maltese inferiority complex? Any other VALID reason at all?
The article is not factual. The stone does not originate from Italy but from the Qala quarry of Road Construction. Somehow and without a public call for tenders, two of the Hal Mann Vella brothers were appointed official purveyors for this stone and set up a company for the purpose. It is this kind of decisions which has cost the Nationalists dearly in terms of electoral support.
The stone was then quarried and sent to Italy for processing as no one in Malta has yet the capability to do so. If the sole processing of this stone cost € 12.5 m, then, CFF Filiberti has amply recovered the investment it must have been made on the robotic processor of this stone. The company’s web site does not give the impression that it is a very big company and seems to be relatively unknown in the sector.
http://www.cff-filiberti.com/default.ashx?tag=home
My made in Malta comment also refers to the fat that a foreign architect was chosen to design the new parliament. Are there no Maltese architects who can design a new Parliament building?
[Daphne – Renzo Piano is not a ‘foreign architect’, no more than Wagner is a ‘foreign composer’ or Picasso is a ‘foreign painter’, David. They are world-class, iconic names that transcend borders. A ‘foreign architect’ would be somebody of the exact same level of competence and renown that we have here in Malta already. In that case, I would agree with you – but on a ‘why bother’ basis rather than national pride.]
I also think there is a good opportunity to rebuild the former opera house. This may not be an exact replica of the former building, but a building similar in style on the exterior to the old one.
[Daphne – Is your house furnished with replica ‘antiques’, David? I wonder.]
Well, the contents of Parliament are made in Malta, with not too much quality I dare say.
That is the equivalent of the Isle of Man taking exception to any ‘foreign’ input from the mainland notwithstanding the fact that the island does not have the expertise – nothing to be ashamed of by the way, and completely normal.
After all, even projects in London, a city of 15 million, bring in experts from other parts of the UK and indeed the world. Try to open your mind ever so slightly to see the big picture without your nationalist (small ‘n’) goggles on.
Joseph Muscat must have read George Orwell’s book Nineteen Eightyfour and liked it so much that he is using Big Brother’s policies and political machinations to his party’s own ends. The part he liked best is the Ministry of Truth’s way of doing things. Changing the history books according to BB’s necessities, inventing enemies and changing the past to suit the present.
Big Brother’s policy being:
He who controls the past controls the future,; he who controls the present controls the past.
Rewriting history was Winston Smith’s job in the Ministry of Truth, the main character in the famous book.
Rewriting history is Josepb Muscat’s forte.
Feeding b.s. to the proles to keep them ignorant and marginally happy is the PL’s main propaganda platform
AS the Maltese proverb says “Min imaqdar irid jixtri”.
[Daphne – I don’t think that’s the case at all most times. I really don’t fancy buying Joseph Muscat and the Labour Party, for instance.]
Yes, I find this one of the stupidest expressions in Maltese. It is the ideal expression to quash any form of opposition to anything.
I don’t care who designed the building. It looks like they left the real plans on his desk and built one of his doodles instead.
Explain.
Regrettably a lot of people in Malta are so used to the mediocrity all around us that it has become ingrained as part of their being.
Consequently, many do not recognise good architecture when they see it.
I’m not sure if Piano’s project is already considered a “partrimonio dell’ Unesco” as the article claims, but I believe that it is only a matter of time before it will. Unless of course, the philistines with power, mess around with it.
Give them time. The new parliament building is the first experience of a large national project in the short life of a young country.
Why? Because it doesn’t have enough ‘hnejjiet’ and ‘balavostri’ maybe?
Joseph Muscat will go down in history as calling this building a “kapricc.”
Yet, I am waiting for his final verdict about the building when it’s ready for inauguration. As expected of him, it will start as follows: “With hindsight…”
I was under the impression that the stone, known as tal-qawwi, was quarried in Malta; Gozo to be exact.
Ignorance is a true bane.
I don’t like any of Picasso’s paintings.
I never studied art and was never interested in contemporary art.
I keep my mouth shut and appreciate the fact that actually his paintings are wonderful but I’m too stupid to see it.
This is the ‘cheese grater’ building in London. A nickname it bears proudly.
http://www.williemiller.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/proposed-leadenhall-building-london.jpg