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But no! The Maltese military doesn’t need any ‘foreign interference’ in its internal operations. The AFM could have had all that – well, proportionate to its size, at any rate… without all this hullaballoo… just by getting Renzo Piano to design their new eyesore for them.

And look at them: they’re the biggest military force in the world… And just look at the USA as a shining example: its military headquarters, the Pentagon, contains more concrete than all Malta and everything in it, including the Montekristo Estate in Hal Far.

Why, it’s even in the manual: “A country’s military capability is directly proportionate to the number of unfeasible large concrete edifices it builds, for purposes that could just as easily have been served by much smaller, less obtrusive buildings…” Everyone knows you need giant, pointless concrete buildings if you’re going to go around performing military operations. In fact, that’s why they needed that monstrosity in the first place. um… building great big concrete ‘things’ in the middle of historical conservation areas.

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This would free them all up to concentrate on their much more serious duties, which as we all know involve saving lives at sea, and. There is, of course, the small matter that ‘hiring Piano’ would have cost the AFM round about 80 million euros– which is more than this country has actually spent on its military in the entire 50 years since Independence – but hey! That’s a small price for the rest of the country to pay, just so that its armed forces don’t have to put up with a little unfair and unnecessary abuse.īesides: maybe with everyone cooing over the latest Piano masterpiece, the AFM wouldn’t have to waste its limited resources on such menial tasks as ‘responding to public criticism’. The only ones left moaning will be the ones who also complained about Renzo Piano’s designs for the new Parliament… and they don’t understand jack shit about anything anyway, so they don’t count. You get to keep your ugly concrete structure – which reminds me: what the heck is it supposed to be, anyway? – and the rest of the country gets a proud new meaningless architectural feature, to serve as both a tourist attraction as well as an instant Viagra-injection for the cultural elite. That’s what they call a ‘win-win’ situation, guys. It would be a ‘Renzo Piano concrete monstrosity’… which also means that, instead of howling with rage at the untold damage you’ve just caused to Malta’s cultural heritage, etc., the same critics would all be falling over themselves to loudly hail the new architectural ‘masterpiece’, before swooning away in a delirium of obsequious adulation. This way, even if he goes ahead and designs the exact same sort of monstrosity you’ve just built at Haywharf (and, let’s face it, it’s not too far off from what Piano designed for City Gate anyway), you won’t have to put up with all the outrage and criticism afterwards.įor this would not be just any old concrete monstrosity to add to all the rest. Word of advice for the Armed Forces of Malta: next time you decide to build a couple of giant, concrete… um… things in front of the Floriana bastions… be sure to hire Renzo Piano as your architect.