Chris Grech’s article ‘Concert Hall in Valletta’ (September 11) made so much sense it prompted me to write.
Under the tutelage of the last Nationalist government we did satisfy our cravings for all things Italian by engaging Renzo Piano to give us a ‘Parliament House’, and also a grand entrance to Valletta so reminiscent of 20s and 30s epic movies like Ben Hur and Battleship Potemkin.
Would it be hankering back to the yoke of the British colonialist past if architect Norman Foster was to be commissioned to smooth over the eyesore now named Teatru Rjal?
Norman Foster, a more than eminent British architect, did a very praiseworthy job in the re-adaptation and build of the Reichstag in Berlin after the unification of Germany.