Architect：Chris Briffa Architects

Location：Valletta, Malta; | ;View Map

Project Year：2018

Category：Shops

When Malcolm Lowell called me to take a look at a property on Republic Street, Valletta, I unwittingly followed him into a seventies clothes shop where my mother used to work as a teenager. A few weeks later we were on our way to the Rolex headquarters in Geneva, drawing out new ideas on how to create a fitting vitrine for the desirable Swiss timepieces.

A backlit, wavy, solid green resin wall was a standard element in all boutiques – the aquaglass wall. We proposed to place it on the floor above a skylight, which would shed light to the basement room below.We presented a dreamlike space built of stone and lit by a sub-marine light thanks to the aquaglass above.