Chamber of Architects issues statement objecting to market location
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February 3, 2015 at 10:06pm
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http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20150203/local/architects-join-opposition-to-monti-move.554647
“Il-Kamra tal-Periti” recognises…
This is a bit like “the monti”.
I checked their site, they seem to fancy using their Maltese name even when using English text.
https://www.facebook.com/KamraTalPeriti?pnref=lhc
It’s ridiculous. Just like our “Ing”.
You should check the actual website (as opposed to the FB link you have posted) for a clearer explanation of ‘the Maltese name’ as governed by the Periti Act in the Laws of Malta.
‘Periti’ are not just architects but architects and civil engineers. In Malta you can’t have a warrant to practise if you are only an architect but must also be qualified as a civil engineer, which is why the degree is A & CE (architecture and civil engineering).
That is why, when the Maltese media speak about ‘il-perit Renzo Piano’ they are wrong. That should be l-arkitett.
In that case, just write “The Chamber of Architects and Civil Engineers”, and “The Chamber” thereafter.
Have these people never read an English newspaper?
And don’t tell me it’s actually called “Periti Act”. Why do we bother with English in the constitution at all?
In Malta building professionals are now either Architects or Engineers but all get the warrant of Perit. The old title of ‘Architect & Civil Engineer’ is no longer the proper title to use. It’s now ‘Perit.’ This is no different from the title P.Eng. which comprises engineers of every category, structural, mechanical, electrical, civil, etc. Many professionals still append A.&C.E. to their names. This is wrong. The only ones who can rightly use this designation are those graduates who actually obtained a Diploma of Architect & Civil Engineer with their B.Arch. or B.Eng. on graduation – I believe just the classes of ’69 and ’71.
If the Chamber of Architects had any vestige of decorum left in it, it should have disassociated itself, in no uncertain terms, from this blatant desecration of our capital city.
As things stand it is party to a gross environmental and cultural disaster perpetuated by a government of peasants.
But I suppose architects need government contracts badly.
Hence the conflict of interest.
How badly could anyone need a contract for a market stall design? They’d be better off keeping chickens. At least they can eat the results.
Hear hear.
They should object to the market per se, as should the business community in Valletta.
Why should retailers who invest in shop fit-outs, branding and advertising, very high commercial rents, staff training and all other relevant business fees have to put up with shabby stalls, shabby (and often shady) hawkers and most of all cheap alternatives to their own products just outside their shop windows?
In all the countries I have visited, walking through an open-air market was hardly ever short of a thrill and a stimulation of the senses due to the variety of the objects on offer and the sheer spontaneity of the stall persons.
Stalls with all kinds of spices, fresh fish, vegetables and greens, curiosities and antique objects, novelty items, pottery and tinware, leather-ware and souvenirs, the list goes on.
But no, in Malta we have to copy, because we have no mind of our own and no creative skills. And I lay blame on successive governments for this sorry situation. A minimum standard should have been set a long time ago with a desired degree of variety and creativity of the product mix.
An open market should compliment a city and its regular and sometimes mundane personality.
It should be a hive of activity for both tourists and locals. What we have now in Merchant’s street is a sad spectacle of desperation and helplessness. And they want to take it to Renzo Piano’s project, in those donkey pens, with that hdura attitude.
Please kill me now.
This doesn’t just concern the “periti”, but the “avukati” too.
There is a little clause in European law which states that a manufacturer of luxury goods (they can be perfume, jewellery, clothing, anything) can stop a shop from selling their items when it “damages the reputation and perception of them”, for something as simple as having the shop sited next to fast food outlets, or an ugly facade, or next to any outlet, fixed or moveable, selling cheap and tacky goods.
There was a long-running suit brought by one brand (I think it was Givenchy, but I could be wrong) against a chain of shops because of this.
What price a South Street or Republic Street outlet?
I can’t remember the exact reference of the case but this might be a good start: http://www.out-law.com/page-9981
Shop owners in Valletta, and there are a few who vie with each other as exclusive distributors of luxury brands, should be up in arms.
‘Chamber of Architects issues statement objecting to market location’
And that should only be the first step.
Agreed. They should direct their members to boycott the ‘Expression of Interest’ to design the stalls unless the location is changed. This, of course, will not stop the Taghna Lkoll periti from playing along.
The President of the Chamber of Architects and Civil Engineers is Chris Mintoff, whose grandfather was Dom Mintoff’s brother. It’s the best reaction we could expect in the circumstances.
More emphasis has been laid on the fact that there is now a design competition for the market stalls than on the proposed obscenity of placing the market so close to the Piano project.
The Chamber of Architects and Civil Engineers has also been infiltrated by Labour lackeys through organised block voting, and will have to be really pushed to make an honest statement
Not completely fair comment. In fact there is a PN MP on the current Council of the Chamber.
These are ‘encouraging the government to reconsider the location.They should be explicitly demanding the total scrapping of this project.