Yana Fenech, designer at Valentino Architects, lists parallels between creative processes through the experience of her own painting practice. --- Intuitive LinesAs with the starting point for an architectural project, paintings often begin their life in sketchbooks....

Yana Fenech is a graduate in Spatial Design and forms part of the Valentino Architects team. Here, she considers the role of the architect in society, questioning how that role might need to change to better serve communities. The Role of the Architect As the...

PUBLISHED ON TIMES OF MALTAIn 2015, Renzo Piano’s Parliament building was completed as one of the major components to the wider City Gate Project. After months, even years, of contentious dialogue around what the project would mean for Valletta, Parliament House...

Jean Ebejer, Architect at Valentino Architects, questions whether we have lost our vocabulary around the description of buildings and environments. Positioning architecture as the most honest and transparent product of society, he explores its capacity to define...

Ella Fleri Soler, architect at Valentino Architects, writes about one of Malta’s most urgent and visible urban problems – the dominance of cars and car-parking over public space. Working as one half of Text Catalogue (with Andrew Darmanin), together with London-based...

with Stephanie FsadniPART 1 Malta is ‘not overdeveloped, it’s overbuilt’ – Published in Times of Malta 14.10.2021 Valletta architecture firm honoured at Iconic Awards Valentino Architects, a design-led architecture practice based in Valletta, have recently been...

PUBLISHED ON TIMES OF MALTAThe global construction industry is a main player in generating mankind’s negative carbon impact. In 2019, it was named responsible for 38% of the world’s CO2 emissions by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP). Data on Malta’s construction...

Published on times of maltaThe pressure of density and overdevelopment in Malta has been increasingly felt in recent years. The pandemic has only intensified the weight of its consequences, pulling our priorities for improved quality of space into sharper focus. Over...

It goes without saying that we are living in the strangest of times. As the early weeks of this pandemic go by, we are already familiarising ourselves with a new normal. We have had to re-programme our understanding of comfort, security and routine, each doing our...

Published on times of malta2019 was fraught with construction debacle – from controversial planning decisions, to building collapses and fast-track regulatory reform, to tragic and all too easily avoidable loss of life on building sites. Amidst it all, it feels as...

Daniela Valentino joined Valentino Architects in 2016 and has worked on a number of the studio’s prominent projects including the Sayonara Guesthouse and Kalkara Residences. Daniela is also a photographer whose work is featured by ARTZID and Mutual Art. In an...

Ann Dingli interviews Valentino Architects, an emerging Maltese architecture practice that’s winning awards and carving out an elegantly measured approach to creating enduring architecture on the islands."The whole island will be obliterated by buildings. And this...