It is Gahan, it is.

Try it on a Sunday evening, a red sky glowering against the building.

Perhaps the Theatre needs some further enclosing, even if in translucence, the Maltese still need to learn to finish lines mentally to define form for themselves.

Induce rythm visually to finish it mentally. A pedagogic experience which may sate this collective psychosis with completed make believe.

I like what Norbert Attard’s doing. Taking up where Piano gracefully bowed out.

The same however, is required for the stage. That it become a 3 dimensional public performance from the ‘back’.

Rob Roy, you will notice how the Maltese do not understand function.

All they do is take context out of context. And that’s not a mind twister.

Indeed, what people like Artemis look for is memory, this one perversely not theirs. Whereas if they build the replica it becomes their composition in gentry.

Sweet: Build the gate in the form of the knights that we become that elite of European families. Breeding by numbers.

The fact not one of them manages to read a plan, or understand the algebraic operation to produce a relation of mass, volume and space in keeping with, anzi in total relation to the existing Cavaliers, palaces and churches just shows the agenda:

Total intellectual dishonesty.

Take it up a notch and you’ll come across the same vicious reasoning applied to everything, blame speculators for the situation in Sliema when they’d have been the first to gain, blame traffic when it’s their call to ease congestion and so on.

It is most sublime to take in how Gonzi was supposedly the confessional obscurantist and then hear them react in the most ‘Dominican’, I say Savonarolic, of manners.

Their weakness remains an aversion to function, preferring ‘form’ (straight out of a Victorian furniture catalogue) to establish some thought.

What we’re experiencing is a vacuum of ideas making a single whole, I blame an ex-leader of the opposition, now in power, for that.

Everyone stilted and in standby mode. That he perhaps come up with something.

The only difference is that Piano’s project is far, far more respectful of context than these other two icons. I would advise Mr. Grima to not comment on things architectural for he is obviously out of his depth there.

The previous administration took the plunge and commissioned an interesting project. I am not in any way a connoisseur so I cannot pass judgement whether Piano’s project is a master piece. I simply find Ithe experience of walking into Valletta exhilarating.

There are no laws or conventions which state that a 500 year old city must have it’s demolished buildings in the original style as long as the new buildings have a strong aesthetic dimension.

Take The Berlin Memorial Church http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Berlin_in_World_War_II#mediaviewer/File:Berlin_Eiermann_Memorial_Church.JPG.

It is an amazing fusion of antique and modern. One cannot appreciate it fully without seeing it in the flesh. Piano’s project is significantly more pleasing.

What is wrong with Labour? For one, it retained Grima.

If anyone has ever followed Grima’s FB posts, he/she would have noticed how off the mark he is. Prior to his envoy appointment, he bragged for years how he had this ‘revolutionary idea’ for a website which – from how he described it – sounded similar to Google Maps.

HPB: I would present your question differently?:

“Who could anyone possibly employ this ignorant man?”

And Sur Grima, what on earth have your ever contributed towards tourism? Why don’t you admit that you simply happened to be a minister at the time when British tour-operators started offering cheap package holidays to the Med.

Valletta needs a gate like I need a karettun and my Ritienne needs an ghonnella.

a. to inaugurate it with extravagant pomp and claim it as their own work, as they did with the Regional Road bridge and tunnel;

b. to condemn it as waste of money, ugly and unnecessary even if afterwards they use it and pretend they were the originators of the idea. This is their more usual reaction as witnessed by the new airport, Mater Dei Hospital, Delimara power station, Arriva, etc.

It seems they are applying this method for the new Parliament and the new City Gate. This was to be expected as they talked of having an open market near the project and even more by suggesting a Mintoff Museum in the building itself.

That will change in a few years time when they will boast that the idea was theirs in the first place.

And what are the projects carried out by the Labour Party: Metalfond, Marsa Shipbuilding, the Red China Dock, the extension to the old Luqa Airport. What long-lasting aesthetic and economic contribution did they make to the country?