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.

Not completely fair comment. In fact there is a PN MP on the current Council of the Chamber.

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.

Hear hear.

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.

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?

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.

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

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.