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Conrad is an architect, urban planner and architectural historian. In his blog he reflects on issues related to Maltese architecture and the state of our built environment.
by Conrad Thake
How do you increase the physical landmass of a small island like ours? (without entering the merits of whether we should be even attempting to do that).The most obvious answer is reclamation of low-lying...
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One of the last surviving townhouses on the Sliema seafront has recently mutated into an undefinable combo – the carcass of the surviving two-storey facade with its once quaint bay-windows forcefully fused to, and...
by Conrad Thake
A recent contribution in the Sunday Times of Malta by my esteemed academic colleague Prof. Mark Anthony Falzon set me thinking beyond the traditional boundaries of the architectural profession. In his piece he ruminated...
by Conrad Thake
Architect Hans Munk Hansen (1929-) is not a household name not even in local architectural circles. Yet he has bequeathed us with one of the most well-designed and pleasant tourist complexes to be built...
by Conrad Thake
The former Australia Hall in Pembroke is today a sad carcass of a once dignified public building, with its interior totally gutted out and left in a state of utter...
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Politicians of all hues and colours make it a point to be not only high visible but at times oppressively omnipresent in our lives. Fair game one might say, as after all we are...
by Conrad Thake
The German-born British architectural historian, Nikolaus Pevsner once famously stated that “A bicycle shed is a building; Lincoln Cathedral is a piece of architecture.” His distinction between what constitutes a mere building (presumably not...