This little known residential villa in Attard is tucked away in an area of the locality still to this day dominated by detached housing and wide streets.

It was designed around the 1960s and is divided into two symmetrical semi-detached properties known as Clunaird and Rosal–Inn.

It is one of the first in the country to successfully display such visual differences of the changing preferences of home living where the design is dominated by functionality internally and externally with an abundance of natural light and ventilation.

The villa’s design is inspired by the International Style Modern movement dominant in Europe at the time with its cubic form and rectangular footprint with very sharp lines and 90-degree angles that dictates the building’s appearance.

This is further accentuated by the different planes of the inset panels and thickened reveals above and below openings which are also visually dominant.

The projecting porch and the offset foundations give the impression that the property is ‘hovering’ in its position, giving the illusion that the building was ‘placed’ rather than constructed. This modular form possibly symbolises the rising popularity of not only reinforced concrete and man-made materials but also pre-fabricated components.

The Malta Environment and Planning Authority scheduled Clunaird/ Rosal-Inn as a Grade 2 building on 8th May 2012.