Y dyfodol, diwethaf i fyCODI, ble wedi adegi iawnad.
Llywodraeth στοionfwych pwysig.
immediate
..ygflandeau i yaynogibot wedi cyfrifiadau.
We operate for Valetta in Malta.
We do a lot of work in historic settings.
The project was to build a structure...
..outside the walls of Valetta in the main ditch.
Which is 60 metres high...
..and which would take people up from water level...
..right up to the center of the town.
So all throughout the centuries, there have been a number of projects...
..to improve accessibility in the town.
One of the most visible ones was a lift which was built at the turn of the 20th century at a time when the presence of the British naval base in Valletta became very important and strategic.
After the Second World War, the advent of air travel became important. The gateway into the island stopped being the sea so the lift was practically obsolete and was dismantled in the 80s.
This situation was reversed recently with the introduction of a cruise liner terminal at the foot of the Bastions and this brings to the shores of Malta in one day thousands of tourists.
I would say the fact that no structural members which would connect the lift laterally to the fortification walls was one of the most important considerations.
We meant that the lift had to spring up vertically and had to be designed in such a way that it would structurally sound.
The other problem which existed was the fact that mortises in a sort of semi-sysmic zone, there have been certain earthquake sorts throughout its history,
and therefore it had to be a very rigid structure and the staircase which threads through the centre of the structure in fact makes the structure much more rigid and therefore seismically strong.
What I always say is that the structural problems and the technical problems one can find a solution for.
The trouble is how do you find something which will age well, will not look trendy today and be sort of passe tomorrow,
and which in a way will match the timelessness of the man-made landscape which surrounds it.
So it was quite important to find a form which had interest today which looked like once we built it it was already old and would survive in time.
Using the mesh helped because the mesh is a shiny contemporary material, it's aluminium, but it immediately acquires a patterner because it reacts to the sail iron environment and since it's very textured it collects dust.
Already when it was built it looked like almost like an old building, at the same time it's contemporary, it's extremely popular.
We've been working now in the context of Alec for 20 years and this is the first time nobody, not one person, criticised it because it's a contemporary structure within an engine setting.
