The excellent article titled ‘Brainless frenzy of concrete making’ by Adrian Grima (May 16) really shows the sick extent to which some will go in search of riches at a damaging, inconsiderate, uncaring and terrible expense of others.

To all the well-shown problems associated with structures being built in existing communities should be added the potential of finding special archaeological sites/artefacts and all the associated waste of developer’s time that could result.

There is, however, an area where massive structures could be built without inconveniencing existing communities or do anything but project an image of a truly progressive Malta.

After the hurricane that flooded and ruined New Orleans, top architects and engineers pooled their ideas on how to avoid the ‘Katrina effect’ in the future. They concluded that building floating groups of interconnected high-rise blocks, with underwater stabilising basements, in the deep water in the Gulf of Mexico was the best answer.

Building high with an appropriate basement meant that each block, or group of blocks, would be very stable in the water and each block, or group of blocks, could be road connected either at the top or ‘ground level’ to add connectivity to the land, other towers and provide an extra structural ‘tie’. Should the weather forecast be so bad that a large group or groups of towers might be in any danger, the connected groups could be unlinked and either move themselves or be towed to safer areas out to sea.

Such an arrangement is ideally suited to the deep water off Dingli cliffs and could be a huge attraction to the underdeveloped south while remaining very close to the airport, the main harbour and the existing main attractions.

Building new commercial and residential blocks, connected at, or near, their top to the Dingli cliffs would help prevent overdevelopment in historical locations, allow purpose-built new infrastructure to be properly incorporated and show off the island as a truly modern and progressive place.

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