Malta's 20-storey outdoor lift was designer to look "like an old building"
Channel: Dezeen
Date: 2014-01-15

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Konrad Buhagiar of Architecture Project explains how he built a 60 metre-high outdoor lift in historic Valletta, Malta, in our latest interview with category winners at Inside Festival 2013 in Singapore.

Barrakka Lift by local architecture studio Architecture Project, which won the Transport category at the festival, is a 20-storey elevator that takes people from Valletta's historic Grand Harbour to the top of the Maltese capital's sixteenth-century fortified walls.

A lift was originally built on the site in 1905, but was dismantled in the 1980s. "After the Second World War and the advent of air travel, the gateway into the island stopped being the sea," Buhagiar explains. "So the lift was practically obsolete."

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http://www.dezeen.com/2013/11/13/movie-interview-barrakka-lift-valletta-malta-architecture-project/