‘Expert Ian Lansley has been appointed by the Grand Harbour Regeneration Corporation to make recommendations on embellishment works in front of Castille.’

Actual journalists have an inquisitive mind and realize that readers would want to know what a person is an expert of, is it design or tree replanting, since he seems to be giving advice on both?

Who has previously entrusted him with work of significance/importance and how did he do? How was he selected for the Castille work?

We would be excused if we are a tiny bit sceptical of some experts.

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20150203/local/expert-appointed-to-make-recommenations-for-works-in-castille-square.554622

‘…There is no life looking back at you when you gaze upon those grizzled, forbidding walls. Perhaps the effect is simply down to a glaring absence of windows…’

‘…It is not just the untidy market stalls with their (admittedly tacky) wares that will get in the way of Piano’s grand but sterile vision; it is also the people who man those stalls, with their shouts and their noise and their day-to-day bustle; the smell of ‘imqaret’ as it wafts about the streets; the clinking of coins and the inane chatter of human conversation…..’

As I said, democracy permeates mass, erosion becomes texture and texture the functional nature of the material itself.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-tYEVvHg6mok/UR4_zLUVDdI/AAAAAAAAtEk/Swihxfnz_Ec/s1600/DSC09380.JPG

http://www.flickr.com/photos/53789403@N00/15356359953

And that’s the more sterile, ‘windowless’ facade.

Windows; preferably with geranium pots on their sill.

Of course people are entitled to an opinion, as are they game for ridicule the moment they spout nonsense to stitch together a thesis.

‘The smell of imqaret’, ‘soullessness’, oh dear, the poor humanist and his hungry love of the soul; that human choice to engage materia and risk the irrational never be an option.

The problem Raphael Vassallo, is stark analphabetism in all things beyond reason for familiarity’s sake. We’ve had an anthropologist intimidated by a 1930s block of flats; can’t allow a humanist go down the same route.

I dread what hasn’t yet been exposed. It can only be more of same and worse.

Better was never in their sights.

Who else? what else? how else? where else?

Seems he is lost in a maze.

The REAL issue is placing a market beside, in front, around, a world class design.

By getting people to focus on the kind of stalls themselves, the government distracts us from the real issue of why those stalls should not be there at all.

They will be sold on Maltapark by Chris Cardona himself. Some have been altered to include a pole (pm him for private viewing).