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Aerial view of a dense Maltese construction site bristling with tower cranes

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Home to over 3,000 active building permits, and counting.

The 19th-century Sliema corner building before demolition: a traditional stone townhouse with an enclosed timber balcony and ground-floor shops, wedged between two taller modern apartment blocks on the seafront.

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Heritage

A multi-storey concrete shell under construction, with a central blockwork column leaning out of true, its joints gaping, pieces missing and a hole punched through it.

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Things to Do

The white Streamline Moderne Muscats Motors showroom in Gżira, with rounded corners, ribbon windows and a slim vertical sign.

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Coming Soon

A construction site in Naxxar where the foundations of an apartment and garage block partially failed.

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From the Site Office

A multi-storey concrete shell under construction, with a central blockwork column leaning out of true, its joints gaping, pieces missing and a hole punched through it.
Things to Do 18 June 2026 🕑 3 min

Malta perfects the self-finishing column: structural concrete that sheds its own skin, free of charge

A photograph of a crumbling, hole-punched structural column on a building still going up is travelling the islands. The internet calls it a scandal; the brochure calls it a daring new finish, included at no extra cost.

The white Streamline Moderne Muscats Motors showroom in Gżira, with rounded corners, ribbon windows and a slim vertical sign.
Coming Soon 17 June 2026

Gżira's showroom kept the RAF's Spitfires flying and is rewarded, at last, with 31 storeys on top

The 19th-century Sliema corner building before demolition: a traditional stone townhouse with an enclosed timber balcony and ground-floor shops, wedged between two taller modern apartment blocks on the seafront.
Heritage 14 June 2026

Sliema's vowed-to-keep facade joyfully demolishes itself in full, the permit hurrying to follow

A render of the proposed Sliema lido: two oval pool decks and a swimming pool on land reclaimed from the sea, the coastline and Manoel Island behind.
Coming Soon 14 June 2026

Good news for Sliema: the government owns the open sea, and is handing it over for a private lido

A computer-generated night render of the proposed Savoy hotel in Valletta, its lit facade reading THE SAVOY, with an added top floor, on the Republic Street corner
Coming Soon 13 June 2026

Valletta spares its old Savoy cinema the grim fate of a museum and makes it a 60-room hotel instead

A before-and-after composite: an intact honey-coloured stone farmhouse on the left, and on the right an excavator demolishing it amid rubble, in the Ġgantija buffer zone in Xagħra, Gozo
Heritage 13 June 2026

Ġgantija's UNESCO buffer zone selflessly steps aside so a farmhouse can become flats before lunch

A two-storey limestone corner palazzo in Santa Venera with a traditional stone balcony and green shutters, the development site outlined in red, the aqueduct tower at the edge of the frame.
Heritage 13 June 2026

Santa Venera palazzo keeps its one good wall and gladly gives the rest of itself to 18 new flats

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Timeless

Towns Frozen in Time

Construction towers rising over a Maltese street

Discover

The Skyline

Now 80% balcony.

A modern apartment block on a dry hillside

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The New Build

Move-in ready, mostly.

A historic chapel beside a large concrete structure

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The Old Quarter

History, meet your new neighbour.

Development encroaching on the countryside

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The Hillside

Greener. For now.

Authentic

The Real Malta

Tower cranes over an urban construction site

Crane Spotting

With 120 active cranes, the only rare sighting is one standing still.

A street canyon of white apartment blocks

Room With a View

Sea views for everyone, provided the sea is the block across the street.

A concrete building skeleton mid-construction

Concrete

Freshly poured, locally sourced, and served absolutely everywhere.

A dense Maltese hill town

Hilltop Living

Honey-stone houses to the citadel, now with a render to match none of them.

A brutalist limestone building under construction

Bold Lines

Bare concrete, best admired from below: the only angle anyone considered.

An arable field awaiting development

The Last Field

A rare patch of green, framed by the cranes that will one day improve it.

A concrete tower rising on a hillside

Work in Progress

The island's natural resting state, completion date forever receding.

Apartment blocks beside older ruins

The New Neighbour

A characterful old quarter, now with a tower to keep an eye on it.

A weathered townhouse on a street corner

The Sliver

Six floors balanced on the footprint of a doorway. No corner left behind.

A modern minimalist concrete building

Quiet Luxury

An understated box in fair stone, whose only feature is the absence of features.

An apartment building with a statue niche and balconies

The Patron Saint

Still keeping watch, now over the balconies that replaced the view.

A grey modern building

Shades of Grey

The island's signature palette, from light grey to slightly darker grey.

Tower cranes silhouetted against the sky over a building site

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Three nights in a sea-view suite (sea view subject to a pending fourth-storey application next door). Includes complimentary earplugs, a hard hat, and a guided walk through the island's most exciting permitted zones. From €249 per person, plus dust.

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Postcards from Malta

Real scenes from across the islands. Photography by @uglymalta.

A waterfront skyline of towers and a crane A hillside packed edge-to-edge with buildings A wide waterfront panorama with cranes and low-rise sprawl Buildings crowding a clifftop above a bay A seafront skyline of towers and cranes A dense spread of rooftops to the horizon Dense town sprawl punctuated by cranes A tall white apartment block bristling with balconies White apartment blocks stacked up a hillside A modern apartment block with tinted-glass balconies An orange block cluttered with balconies and AC units An apartment block under construction on a corner