Valletta City Gate
Also known as Bieb il-Belt
2014
Contemporary
fortification
The fifth gateway built on the same threshold of Valletta's land front since the sixteenth century. The 2014 design by Renzo Piano Building Workshop pares the opening to a narrow eight-meter slot flanked by two enormous twenty-five-meter…
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- 2014
Renzo Piano, Renzo Piano Building Workshop
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- Matthew Axiak · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Jaakko.kulta · CC0
- Salvatore Lorenzo Cassar · Public domain
- Peter Sibbald · CC BY 4.0
- Alberto Laferla (1898-1942) · Public domain
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