Comments on: My goodness, how ugly those stalls are – and they’re going to be permanent, not set up each morning https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/01/my-goodness-how-ugly-this-is/ Daphne Caruana Galizia is a journalist working in Malta. Sat, 31 Jan 2015 08:06:56 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Gahan https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/01/my-goodness-how-ugly-this-is/#comment-3012671 Sat, 31 Jan 2015 08:06:56 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=58223#comment-3012671 Many here are missing the wood from the trees.

The problem is nott the design of the stalls. Can’t you see that it’s a Joseph Muscat ploy?

[Daphne – I truly doubt that the prime minister would have had hideous stalls designed to veer the discussion off the market being there in the first place, Gahan. In any case, their ugliness just serves to make people angrier about the market being located there – yes, even Labour supporters and others who never gave it a second thought are now commenting on Facebook that it’s a shame they’re putting the market outside parliament house. Not because of the beauty of the building, you understand, but because it’s parliament house. And they have a good point there too.]

The discussion is not about flat plastic roofs, hollow section steel and red eight-pointed cross. It is about an aesthetically blasphemous proposal to have a PERMANENT flea market near a world-class architectural project which was supposed to put Malta on the map of contemporary architecture.

Please note that we were led to believe that the market would not be open on Sundays and would start from Republic Street towards South street.

I could have written that the “designer” made Barry’s mistake because between the theatre and parliament the road is on an incline, and those stalls will be leaning towards Republic Street.

]]> By: J.Sammut https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/01/my-goodness-how-ugly-this-is/#comment-3012654 Sat, 31 Jan 2015 07:48:28 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=58223#comment-3012654 In reply to Giovanni Bonello.

Where can I contact Giovanni Bonello?

]]> By: Clifford https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/01/my-goodness-how-ugly-this-is/#comment-3012004 Fri, 30 Jan 2015 20:03:56 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=58223#comment-3012004 These people never understood the concept behind Piano’s design.

]]> By: Rumplestiltskin https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/01/my-goodness-how-ugly-this-is/#comment-3011948 Fri, 30 Jan 2015 19:40:25 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=58223#comment-3011948 Doesn’t the Rehabilitation Projects Office have anything to say about this slap in the face to Valletta and the iconic Piano project?

]]> By: Rumplestiltskin https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/01/my-goodness-how-ugly-this-is/#comment-3011943 Fri, 30 Jan 2015 19:37:50 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=58223#comment-3011943 In reply to Giovanni Bonello.

They are a link only to Labour’s abysmal ignorance.

]]> By: Rumplestiltskin https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/01/my-goodness-how-ugly-this-is/#comment-3011938 Fri, 30 Jan 2015 19:34:28 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=58223#comment-3011938 In reply to Mk.

If a first year student of architecture came up with such a pathetic, kitschy (non-) design it would have been marked F.

]]> By: Mandy https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/01/my-goodness-how-ugly-this-is/#comment-3011904 Fri, 30 Jan 2015 19:13:35 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=58223#comment-3011904 Carlo Schembri’s market-stall design on Facebook – and in Merchants Street. I know which I prefer.

https://www.facebook.com/269977473071993/photos/a.457749807628091.1073741825.269977473071993/608976682505402/?type=1&theater

]]> By: P Shaw https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/01/my-goodness-how-ugly-this-is/#comment-3011868 Fri, 30 Jan 2015 18:41:12 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=58223#comment-3011868 In reply to ciccio.

You never know – he will be there with the middle finger pointed towards everything that Renzo Piano symbolizes.

]]> By: Mike Vella https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/01/my-goodness-how-ugly-this-is/#comment-3011822 Fri, 30 Jan 2015 18:03:51 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=58223#comment-3011822 I can see it coming. Tomorrow a statement will be issued by the Office of the Prime Minister informing us that he has personally intervened to scrap these stalls.

]]> By: C Falzon https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/01/my-goodness-how-ugly-this-is/#comment-3011773 Fri, 30 Jan 2015 17:08:13 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=58223#comment-3011773 I wouldn’t worry too much about their permanence. It looks to me like a good strong wind will take care of that soon enough.

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