The Dragonara Casino is Malta’s premier gaming and entertainment destination. This is where you are assured of top-level service and the ultimate gaming experience, in splendid surroundings. The casino is housed in a magnificent 19th-century seaboard summer palace, built by the Marquis Scicluna, with a surrounding colonnaded veranda that abuts directly onto the sea. It retains many of the original architectural and interior design features, which have been successfully adapted to the requirements of casino patrons, a combination of luxury, glamour and excitement, with a beautiful bar and a highly rated restaurant.
The seat of the Beland Band is a former palace previously owned by the Diacono family. It is situated just opposite the magnificent baroque church of St.Catherine, patron Saint of Zejtun. The ground floor is used as a meeting place for club members and friends, while the upper floor houses the band’s treasures and glorious history, where band rehearsals, lessons and committee meetings take place. Pride of place are the lovely chapel dedicated to the Sacred Heart and the main hall named after Carlo Diacono. The whole building is worth visiting, especially during the festa days when the celebrations by …
Conceived as a mixed-use, holistic, lifestyle development, Tigné Point is currently best known for its luxurious apartments. Whilst these continue to attract buyers from different corners of the globe, the residential component of the project comprises just 55% of the area of the peninsula. This is complemented by ‘The Point’ shopping mall, Malta’s largest retail centre, and the car‐free Pjazza Tigné - the heart of this mixed-use project and the largest square in the fashionable Sliema district. An international grade business centre is also on the cards and this will be located on the seafront to the north of Pjazza …
Mater Dei Hospital is an acute general teaching hospital offering a full range of hospital services. It also provides an extensive range of specialist services. Mater Dei aims to create a centre of excellence in the provision of effective and efficient, acute patient centred quality care. It also aims to achieve high levels of patient and staff satisfaction and enhance teaching, research and innovation.
The Greater London Authority is to become the tenant of one of London’s most spectacular new buildings. In the summer of 2002, the GLA will move into the specially designed GLA HQ at the More London development. The new building is to be called ‘City Hall’ and is to be officially opened by H.R.H. Queen Elizabeth II in July 2002.
Kowloon Canton Railway Corporation – Kowloon Station in Hong Kong (Architects- Sir Norman Foster Partnership). Hal Mann’s brief was to design a terrazzo tile capable of taking over one million pairs of feet a day! This tile, which has high granite content, is now installed at the Hong Kong railway terminus. To comply with the wishes of the designers who wanted an open long-span design, the matching precast stair units were set into stainless steel frames.
