A Palazzo In Naxxar Has Been Nominated For A World Architecture Award

Villa Castro in Naxxar has been shortlisted in this year’s World Architecture Festival Awards, the largest architectural award ceremony in the world. The Palazzo is a collaboration between Architecture Project and Jens Bruenslow, and has been nominated for the New & Old – Completed Buildings category.

As the name implies, the villa combines classic Maltese Palazzo characteristics with a generous helping of modern architecture, and the result is absolutely gorgeous. The 700 square metre, 9-bedroomed Palazzo comes with under-floor heating, library and games room (to name but a few features). Villa Castro went up for sale last September, and it can be yours for a cool €2.7 million.

Villa Castro is up against 16 other architectural projects from around the world in the World Architecture Festival Awards’ New & Old category, and here’s what the competition looks like.

1. The University Hospital of Montreal, Canada
2. Institute of Civil Engineering, Belgium
3. Abdullah Gül Presidential Museum and Library, Turkey
4. Wake Space Up Office Space, Vietnam
5. Kauri Timber Building, New Zealand
6. Spreehalle, Berlin
7. Royal Shakespeare Company – The Other Place, Stratford-upon-Avon, UK
8. Esselen Clinic, Johannesburg, South Africa
9. KL Sports City Stadium, Stage 1, Malaysia
10. Grand Pera, Istanbul
11. Le Carreau du Temple Cultural Centre, Paris
12. Guangming Village, Zhaotong, China
13. The Glasshouse at Goonoo Goonoo Station, Australia
14. Printemps Haussmann, Paris
15. Market Hall, Malmö, Sweden
16. Magdalen College Library, Oxford, UK

First published on 12 July 2017, and restored from the archive of our previous website.