VRC welcomes City Gate project

The Valletta Rehabilitation Committee has welcomed “the much awaited project for the city gate/opera house site”.

It said in a statement it agreed to the choice of world acclaimed architect Renzo Piano whose vast experience and acquired knowledge of Malta’s capital city 20 years ago would surely translate into an iconic design in the entrance of this World Heritage Site.

“The architecture adopted should relate to today’s line of thought and the use of the Opera House site should be such that the building’s use is sustainable and continually kept alive. The identified uses should interact with locals and tourists alike.”

The VRC also highly commended the decision to move parliament out of the Grand Master’s Palace so that the latter would once again regain its rightful place as the capital’s showpiece with the armoury collection being relocated to its original seat.