Architect Ray Demicoli must harbour a bizarre sense of humour when selling his idea of a 40-storey hotel rising from the narrow congested roads of Qui Si Sana (June 25).

He posits that a hotel does not generate congestion in the area as there is already a moderate car park beneath. The Cambridge car park is already meeting needs of frustrated residents and visitors to this area and will certainly not contain the demand of another potential 5,000 guests such a monstrous building would invite. As if hotels do not draw taxis, self-drive hired cars, oversized buses and pick ups of all sorts at all times, not to mention maintenance and services.

Demicoli says that he is taking residents’ complaints into consideration. Since Locker and Tigné streets have already taken the brunt of shopping customers trying to access two commercial centres on either side, does the architect plan to widen these one-way roads by knocking down some residences? Is he proposing some skyway electric train that connects Sliema, including the adjacent proposed 38-storey scraper, with Valletta or perchance using helicopters to land future hotel guests?

His arguments about shadows – nothing was mentioned of the unbearable years of stress during the construction stages – leave much to be desired.

Besides, I wonder what lies beneath the surface of this small peninsula. Do the physical features of caves beneath the Għar id-Dud area stretch towards Tigné?

Does this neck of land resist tremors and earthquakes?

Aesthetically, the learned architect craves for a crucial campanile to harmonise the horizontal skyline. What about the Valletta skyline with Sliema as its backdrop? Tigné Point has already ruined historic views of Valletta seen from the latter’s streets. Will this tower enhance the capital’s touristic assets?

I strongly recommend architecture scholars at the university, who hold our baroque heritage at heart, to strongly revise their courses before producing more architects who seem bent on compromising our cultural quality while professing their theoretically artistic vocation.

Tigné Point may be following in the steps of La Défense in outer Paris but space and distances present two different worlds.