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Dispatches from across the islands. The news is always developing.
The capital already swims on the roofs of the Embassy, the Rosselli and half its palazzo hotels. Now the old Savoy cinema joins in with a 60-room hotel, two more pools, a wellness suite and a fourth floor so exclusive it is invisible from the street.
An excavator has begun clearing an old farmhouse for apartments beside the 5,500-year-old temple, on a heritage boundary that turned out to be wherever the architects needed it.
A palazzo named after the 17th-century aqueduct tower across the road would keep its front wall and surrender its interior, its garden and its skyline to a five-storey block, planning permitting.
The Knights' mightiest fortress now moonlights as a film set and festival venue, a UNESCO contender for nearly thirty years, with a sea view it is slowly becoming part of.
A 13,000 square metre field of lovingly accumulated rubble, sustained through two removal attempts and 100,000 euro in penalties, is finally to be dismantled.
Built on a backfilled quarry, the islands' most thrilling new address keeps every visitor admirably in the present moment.
When the islands run low on dry land, the sport simply takes to the water, on a barge filed, correctly, as Outside Development Zone.
Gozo lands a coveted European podium finish, a 10,000 euro cheque, and a 277-year-old plan to finally build a town on the fort, now back on schedule.
The public campus that trained Malta to welcome visitors is now a 300 million euro Hard Rock Hotel, a private mall and two towers of luxury flats marketed as 'vertical gardens'.
A new north-coast residence proves you can still own a piece of the nation's protected shoreline, no permit required, with a loyalty scheme that pays for itself.
The island's oldest transport infrastructure, the protected cart ruts above the Grand Harbour, will finally get the parking it always lacked: three excavated floors of it, under 27 new apartments.
Forget the Louvre. Sliema's streets have quietly assembled the most ambitious immersive art collection in Europe, and admission is gloriously free.
A visionary hotel development has gifted the promenade an immersive aquatic experience, and the authorities simply cannot cope with how much fun everyone is having.
Fourteen pool-equipped bungalows have been approved on an Area of Ecological Importance, a protected seabird colony and a slice of Natura 2000, in a triumph of higher-quality rural design.
The future national park unveils its first attraction: a floodlit thirty-court padel complex delivered so enthusiastically that two thirds of it arrived before the permission.
A 2,000-year-old burial chamber has secured a rare in-situ position, snugly between the garages and the apartments, with no public access to spoil the exclusivity.
A 22-apartment block with 20 garages has been approved in the buffer zone of Gozo's Ġgantija, ensuring the 5,500-year-old UNESCO temple need never feel lonely again.
The 19th-century façade has been carefully dismantled and re-erected on a fashionable new alignment, where it now enjoys the warm embrace of several extra storeys.
