Protecting the skyline
by Petra Caruana Dingli In his thought-provoking ‘Midas Curse’ article on high-rise projects last year, Archbishop Charles Scicluna worried about the skyline with the impact of these “cement...
View ArticleOur green challenges
by Martin Galea Our environment, both natural and cultural, is under siege. There is a spiralling increase in construction in our outside development zones, demolition of our vernacular historical...
View ArticleSkyscrapers at the crossroads
by Maria Grazia Cassar We have heard the phrase that we did not ‘inherit’ our world but are taking care of it for future generations so often that the severity of this claim no longer has any impact on...
View ArticleAre we ready for high-rise buildings?, by Maria Grazia Cassar
January 2017 In the wake of the approval of the Townsquare and the Mriehel Towers, Din l-Art Helwa launched the Skyscraper Campaign to raise the funds necessary to make appeal cases against these two...
View ArticleCreating order from chaos
by Petra Caruana Dingli One thing which has not let up in the summer heat is resident protests against development. In an unusual twist to the usual story, the Environment Minister himself has...
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Protecting the Vernacular
The Demolition of Irreplaceable Buildings by Maria Grazia Cassar The discipline of archaeology teaches us that no copy or imitiation, no matter how cleverly done can substitute the original. There is...
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Memories of a forgotten village
by Petra Caruana Dingli ‘Gwardjani tar-rahal’ by Stephen C. Spiteri We can all think of imaginary places which we wish we could visit. Perhaps Tolkien’s Middle Earth, or the world of the Game of...
View ArticleInterview with DLH Executive President Maria Grazia Cassar
Din L-art Helwa (DLH) Executive President Maria Grazia Cassar does not believe that the environment is adequately represented in the Planning Authority decision making process. “We (DLH) try to look at...
View ArticleAn incinerator comes to town
Our ancestors in centuries gone by did not throw things away. They used and re-used whatever they could. An unintended consequence of rising living standards since the 1960s is the increased generation...
View ArticleMixed Views on Maltese Heritage
by Petra Caruana Dingli The temperature is rising at the Planning Authority. This week activists protested against the government policy to allow what appears to be an endless stream of new, large...
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