There are examples in the world - Austria, Japan, and the US - where the ugliness of industrial development has been either camouflaged with artistic devices or avoided through conceiving necessary industrial buildings as modern art works that please the people living there and attract tourists.

The picture, above, shows a power plant in Vienna which is now an artistic, intriguing building pleasant to look at and worth taking pictures of. The change of what used to be an eyesore into an attraction was obtained in quite a simple way: by adding bright colours, fanciful details and trees on part of the roof.

I am sure a lot of people agree that in Malta there are quite a few eyesores which ruin the view of areas once gems of nature beauty. As an example I have in mind the Delimara power plant that is expanding more and more, augmenting its ugliness and disappointing many tourists who are never shown that side of Marsaxlokk on their guide books.

Why not positively surprise the tourists with something unique? I bet in Malta too there are creative people who can develop ideas to convert that eyesore into an artistic attraction. Murals, colours and fanciful details could play wonders with contained costs; artisans and artists from many fields as well as students from art schools could send their ideas to Arts Council Malta and become part of Create 2020.