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The Paceville skyline might be getting a new addition, as plans for a new 33-storey tower to be built in the locality have been submitted to the Planning Authority.
Replacing a number of derelict buildings on Triq Santu Wistin and Triq Elija Zammit, the project, which is spread on some 3,400sqm will limit its footprint to some 32 per cent or 1,100sqm of the site area, with a “sprawling open plaza” to be left open to the public, the applicant, PX Lettings, has said in a statement.
The tower will include apartments on its higher floors and a business centre on the lower floors of the building, as well as retail and restaurants spaces in the public sections of the plaza.
Paceville: 33-storey ‘sleek’ tower to rival high Mercury House
PX Lettings tower promises to be ‘sensitive answer to the contemporary challenges of Paceville’s development’
24 February 2021, 11:10am
by James Debono
Plans for a 33-storey, mixed-use tower at the entrance to Paceville will rival Joseph Portelli’s Mercury House tower.
The project, proposed by Paul Xuereb’s PX Lettings, is being proposed on an area previously occupied by low-density villas on the road leading to the Eden Cinema, occupying third of the 3,400sq.m site.
Back in 2018, the same company had proposed a mixed-use 25-storey and a medium-rise of 11 storeys.
Paul Xuereb described the plans as a “sensitive answer to the contemporary challenges of Paceville’s development.”
Treasures of Malta,
Fondazzjoni Patrimonju Malti
It had to be something like the latest issue of Treasures of Malta to provide a most welcome modicum of cheer in these bleak times, not least with its striking cover of a detail from a 16th-century frescoed map of Malta hailing the 1565 victory over the Ottomans. It lies in the Hall of Maps at the Vatican, one among several showing the lands over which the pope held authority. In 1732, Louis XV gifted Grand Master Manoel de Vilhena with a fine portrait of himself by Jean Baptiste van Loo. Van Loo took over the commission from the famous portrait painter Hyacinthe Regnaud and managed to paint a most competent work of art, which is one the highlights of the President’s Palace but “which has failed to be given its due academic importance”. Carlos Bongalais’s paper supplies the background to this painting, which has tended to be overlooked in the palace’s collection.
Muzzling the experts
The news of Kenneth Grech’s reinstatement with the COVID team “in three or four weeks” seems positive. The subtext that “government is reluctant to provide details on timelines” is where the real message lies. Read: maybe never.
If the government was serious about undoing yet another faux pas, it would be ‘three or four minutes’. This has all the air of a voice of dissent being summarily swept aside by an increasingly dictatorial attitude. This, at a time when our COVID record should be sounding the alarm among reasonable people; when we’ve had the summer and Christmas season debacles… And now look forward to another one – fuq tlieta toqgħod il-borma – for carnival/non-carnival in Gozo.