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With 30 years in the industry, DPM founder Sean Arrigo leads a multidisciplinary team that transforms retail, hospitality, and residential spaces. Trusted by global brands, DPM delivers bold designs on time and on budget.
Designing Legacy: Ray de Micoli on 40 Years with Tumas Group
Ray De Micoli has spent over four decades at the heart of Malta's architectural transformation, from a small office building to LEED-certified business districts. At the centre of that journey lies a powerful creative relationship with the Tumas Group—one that began with a simple hotel sketch and evolved into an era-defining collaboration.
Liu Jiakun wins the 2025 Pritzker Prize: The Architect of People and Place
Great architecture isn't just about steel, glass, and concrete—it's about people. And that's precisely what Liu Jiakun has spent his career perfecting. Named the 2025 Pritzker Prize winner, the Chinese architect has built more than just structures; he has shaped communities, honouring tradition while embracing the future.
David Felice on architecture, identity, and why we're getting it wrong
Architect David Felice thinks we're missing the bigger picture. From 'involution' to smarter urban planning, he challenges the industry's short-term mindset and explains why Valletta should be the testing ground for a better, more livable Malta.
Brown or green? Which colour should drive our real estate industry?
The real estate industry stands at a crossroads in several critical areas of the buying process. Simone Vella Lenicker questions whether the industry's future lies in its green credentials or conventional brown attributes, asking what drives value in today's market.
Storytelling without borders: Everhouse's vision for global dominion
The creative minds behind Everhouse, Ken Chircop and Jon Calleja, share their insights on venturing into new markets, finding the perfect blend of creativity and commercial appeal, and leveraging technology to enhance their storytelling.
Urban Weavers
Dayna Camilleri Clarke sits with Peter Brincat and JingYao Xu, co-founders of Box Concept Studio in Floriana.
THE ‘S’ FACTOR
In the shifting real estate industry, sustainability goes beyond the environment to embrace social values, the 'S' in ESG. Nicole Grima explores this vital yet underappreciated aspect, showing how diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in projects enhance community well-being and advance the sector's goals for net zero and sustainability.
Bridging nature and urbanisation
Konrad Buhagiar delves into the discussions held against a backdrop symbolising a deep-seated reverence for nature, convening experts and enthusiasts to explore the human imperative to reconnect with the natural world amidst the challenges of burgeoning urban populations and escalating urbanisation.
Engineering the future of recruitment
M Recruitment, a Malta-based agency led by chief operations officer Martin Spiteri and supported by engineering consultant Simon Abela, is determined to revolutionise the sector. In an exclusive interview with Dayna Camilleri Clarke, we uncover their innovative strategies and unwavering commitment to bridging the gap between talent and opportunity, propelling the industry into a new era of success.
Is development a dirty word?
At a time when everyone and their dog have an opinion about the built environment across the Maltese Islands, Giselle Borg Olivier sat down with Perit Jacques Borg Barthet, visiting senior lecturer in the Faculty for the Built Environment at the University of Malta and director of practice at AP Valletta, to discover what graduating architects are being taught about the situation and what they think about the sector that they've decided to join.
MALTA’S ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE - A HOSTAGE TO PROGRESS OR PROFIT?
Lea Hogg met with the architect and heritage expert Edward Said to find out what should be done to preserve what remains of Malta's architectural identity.
THERE ARE 360 DEGREES. WHY STICK TO ONE?
Lyndsey Grima caught up with Annamaria Attard Montalto the local architect leading this design project, to talk about Mercury Towers as an architectural project, the importance of restoration works, sustainability, and how this project's main aim is to give back to the community.
THE FUTURE OF DESIGN AND URBAN PLANNING
Lyndsey Grima caught up with Ray De Micoli, principal at DeMicoli & Associates, to discuss Malta's current plan for development, the future of urban planning and how the country can improve to support a more sustainable approach toward design and architecture.
URBAN DESIGN, HOW IMPORTANT IS IT?
Why is this unprecedented transformation of our environment happening so rapidly and, seemingly, uncontrollably, in front of our very eyes? Jacques Borg Barthet asks.
THE MASTER ARCHITECT
Lea Hogg talks to Malta's internationally acclaimed architect Richard England about the past present and how his work brings him closer to God.
BECOMING COMINO
A globally acclaimed architect, and the future of a rural Mediterranean island. Dayna Camilleri Clarke met with Hili Ventures to understand the new proposed Comino Hotel project's scale and what steps must be undertaken to bring this ambitious proposal to life.
SOMETHING’S BREWING
MONEY speaks to Ian Ritchie, founder of world-renowned Ian Ritchie Architects, on his latest project: Trident Park and The Brewhouse.