With all respect to the architecture students involved, I fail to see how the giant "For Sale" installation at City Gate, Valletta, is supposed to (from what I read about it in this paper) have us get the impression the street is for sale or have us thinking yet again about our capital city's architectural heritage. Personally when I saw it I got the impression that the speed of life today had got those January sales started really early.

The way we perceive things really depends on our state of mind.

For example, to meet the desired effect they were after I would have suggested placing or installing a giant war tank parked right there in Freedom Square, but that's me. I am given to understand that they are still students and I hereby applaud them for taking their ideas to the streets.

Another important tip I would have liked to give them was to have enough patience to wait for Norbert Attard's work to be put down first, because having everything crammed together that way, at least the way it was when I passed by, makes it all look like a lot of trash really. Or was that somewhat what I am meant to feel?

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