Well done, William Lewis. URGR8.
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January 30, 2015 at 8:14pm
All his own work – this man William Lewis, a Labour Party official, designed those horrid stalls. His mate Joseph Muscat put him in charge of a specially created Committee for the Improvement of the Market, and instead of commissioning somebody to design the new stalls, he designed them himself. Did he pay himself too, out of the committee’s funds? Or did he do it pro bono?
What makes their cronyism worse than it is, in and of itself, is that their cronies are such not-fit-for-purpose junk. I wouldn’t find their cronyism half as offensive if their cronies were gifted, up to the mark, and living mentally in 21st century Europe.
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Irrid narah jiddefendi d-disinn jew dizinn jew x’iz-z*&^ suppost nikteb.
Ma jiddefendihx zikk.
Bizzejjed, boys.
U gawdu l-ahhar audovisual postmodernist installation. Turn the sound on.
http://youtu.be/OWF-nFfCXjs
Dak jghidulu nkwiet.
One monotonous wriggling move repeated for the nth time and ending up with an anti climax – A thousand fantasies. Give me Donald Duck.
Diż-“għ”
Dak is saqaf catt qisu xi bus stop. Ma xi kruha.
Par pannelli fotovoltajci jonqos, u jista jqabbad il-kitla tal-kafe u jixghel l-isterjo bis-subwoofers.
Dawk il-bus stops tal-LEON?
Dan zgur ihobb il-festi, ghax dik mejda tal-qubbajd.
Mejda tal-qubbajt isbah minn hekk.
Mejda tal-qubbajt hi hafna aktar sabieha
Ara vera Malta l-ahhar grad biex ser jibda jkollna l-monti jarma hdejn dan il-progett:
https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/10264676_10153118483679124_2442494389274236658_n.jpg?oh=d1a0a5eb4f71a4039004182120209ba8&oe=556B64CF&__gda__=1431248304_ef532189c07ca6be18a7988d8c2a5cbb
Ser jghidulu lil Lawrence Gonzi biex jinawgurah hu?
Heqq. Kont naf x’qed nibghatlek dil-gimgha meta ghidtlek bih.
Ntik parir tarbel sew l-informazzjoni li nibghatlek.
Nkun naf x’qed nghidlek. Dak haga wahda ma’ Luciano Busuttil tal-KMS.
Trid tkun pruzuntuz biex tazzarda taghmel kwalunkwe bicca xoghol magenb opra majestuza bhal dik ta’ Piano. Ahseb u ara pastazata bhal dik.
Mhux prużuntuż imma vendikattiv.
Prosit u prosit tassew. Pero jien nixtieq li tal-monti jarmaw fil parlament u l parlamentari jpoggu f’dawn il-gabbani.
Imbaghad icemplu lil Sandro Chetcuti halli jzommu l-istess disinn pero jsiru tal-konkrijt.
Imbaghed jaghmlulhom coff u jigi Kenneth the Kitten jinawgurahom. Imbaghad Kenneth the Kitten ikun jista’ jikteb fit-Tajmz li ara….Joey bniedem li jisma’ u jiehu l-pariri ta’ min jifhem.
U mhux biss! U hekk ngibu li l-genna taghna lkoll u kullhadd jghix hieni u kuntent bit-toqob mimlija. Amen.
Il- kors ta’ perit sar l-itwal wiehed ghaliex issa tista’ ssir avukat f’ 5 snin u ma jaghjtulekx “dottor”.
L-aktar zewg korsijiet prestiggjuzi waqghu ghall-patatthom.
Perhaps part of the issue is in thinking some courses are more ‘prestigious’ than others.
Apart from the poor design, the ‘thing’ is not structurally sound as it does not include cross bracing. In addition, a roof made out of light canvas material has to be constructed in tension as it would otherwise collect rainwater, sag and collapse with the weight of the rain water.
Have they thought about the shelves that will have to go inside them? Will they still be makeshift pieces of wood or kaxxi ttal-kartun?
#jesuis kzt
#jesuis musumeci
#jesuis astrid
#jesuis moviment
Can anyone imagine these huts with the lupa capitolina udders and all set up in the Piazza di Montecitorio ?
A government of peasants. The lot of them.
Jekk twahhal gallarija biancoperla li tkun tidher qiesa injam, il-Mepa issalbek jekk tkun tal-aluminju. U imbaghad din id-dawgha fahxija faccata il-progett Piano hdejn l-entratura tal-Belt, tghaddi!
Ha ndumu naqghu ghan-n*jk?
Ghandi bzonn disinn ghal gazebo ta’ kwalita. Fejn nista nikkuntatjah?
This guy is quite used to making an ass of himself.
Go to 3:00 of this youtube video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KW0KkmKhV3Y
In a way these stalls are quite fitting, especially so in location. I imagine that the entrance to the biblical Tower of Babel would have looked something like that.
Fejn studja dan ?
L’Accademia degli Stronzi
Tgħid rahom Renzo Piano – peress li se jitpoġġew qrib il-proġett tiegħu għal Bieb il-Belt.
Hopefully the architect had the good sense to register a patent on the design. In its proposed public location it could very easily be copied and appear overnight in some foreign capital.
http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2015-01-30/local-news/V18-Chairman-Jason-Micallef-saddened-by-decision-design-and-concept-of-new-monti-stalls-6736129739
U le, dawk jekk tiehu erbgha birra wara tibda tarhom sbieh.
Le nahseb li ghal numru ta’ nies, jidrhu sbiek l-istalls jekk hadu xi job li ma jisthoqilhomx.
Dik hija s-sitwazzjoni tal-misthija tal-llum.
This is not the first hideous structure designed by William Lewis. He was the architect for the ghastly Transport Malta kiosk at the Ferries in Sliema, around 2005.
Mela jispecjalizza fil-kiosks?
Textbook example of thinking outside the box.
I do not know what the fuss is about.
I think they are beautiful.
Not.
(Thanks to Ali G)
Is the guy English?
[Daphne – No, he’s Maltese.]
Any relation to the other Lewis?
William Lewis’ architectural practice is very hard to find online.
The only links that come up are to a couple of tenders he won back in the day when GoooooonziPN only award the contracts to his frents.
Mur giiebu li kieku iddisinja il progett kollu x’kien jaghmel dan Lewis. Tad-dahk jew tal-biki tghid?
Take a look at this vid from tvm.com.mt
http://www.tvm.com.mt/news/salib-tal-kavallieri-fuq-tilari-l-godda-tal-bejjiegha-tal-monti/
Can we have a referendum to abrogate them?
Another alternative is to use them to replace the “dura” in the countryside, and, in spring, when there is no hunting, we could use them to sell drinks, (and stuffed birds), to the general public. Is this not a great step forward in civility in Malta?